title: Replication of urban innovations - prioritization of strategies for the replication of Dhaka's community-based decentralized composting model.
abstract: Dhaka's community-based decentralized composting (DCDC) is a successful demonstration of solid waste management by adopting low-cost technology, local resources community participation and partnerships among the various actors involved. This paper attempts to understand the model, necessary conditions, strategies and their priorities to replicate DCDC in the other developing cities of Asia. Thirteen strategies required for its replication are identified and assessed based on various criteria, namely transferability, longevity, economic viability, adaptation and also overall replication. Priority setting by multi-criteria analysis by applying analytic hierarchy process revealed that immediate transferability without long-term and economic viability consideration is not advisable as this would result in unsustainable replication of DCDC. Based on the analysis, measures to ensure the product quality control; partnership among stakeholders (public-private-community); strategies to achieve better involvement of the private sector in solid waste management (entrepreneurship in approach); simple and low-cost technology; and strategies to provide an effective interface among the complementing sectors are identified as important strategies for its replication.
authors.affiliation: Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India. s_yedla@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Sudhakar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yedla
mesh_terms: D001459:Bangladesh; D003256:Community Participation; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011057:Politics; D017149:Private Sector / Q000191:economics; D017150:Public Sector / Q000191:economics; D012037:Refuse Disposal / Q000191:economics; D012987:Soil; D014505:Urban Population; D018505:Waste Management / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D012987:Soil