The Project aims to initiate a culture of plastic waste management and create livelihood opportunities, particularly for women, within Vridi village and surrounding communities. It focuses on raising awareness, building capacity, and supporting small-scale recycling businesses to effectively manage plastic waste and promote sustainable practices. It has the three components, with the following activities: Component I: Awareness and Improved and gender-inclusive Practices on Plastic Waste Management and Environmental Preservation: (i) Consultative Engagement among the community members, using participatory tools and methodology to assess (i) livelihood conditions of the targeted people and (ii) knowledge on plastic waste management and preservation of environment; (ii) Awareness and sensitization strategy, tools and campaigns: for the participants to collectively identify innovative solutions for addressing the social, economic, and environmental problems caused by plastic waste and pollution; (iii) In-depth capacity building and training for two hundred (200) green champions within Vridi community leaders, schools students and teachers and supporting them through guidance and coaching; (iii) Installation of plastic collection boxes within the 5 selected schools as part of the implementation of their environmental cleanliness plans; (iv) Support for the development of Environmental cleanliness and plastic waste management plans in the 5 selected schools to guide their efforts in keeping their community free of waste pollution; and (v) Development of the relevant tools for regular monitoring and evaluation as well processes for adjusting implementation outcomes and taking corrective measures. Component II: Improved sustainable and gender-inclusive business practices for individual Local Waste Collectors: Through this component, the following activities will be undertaken: (i) Training needs assessment of local waste collectors, to identify required capacity building and training needs; (ii) Capacity building and plan and training workshops on financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and waste collection and recycling techniques and supply chains opportunities; (iii) Development, adoption and implementation of monitoring and evaluation tools to measure collection, transportation, and recycling of plastic waste at the individual levels using digital tools to monitor daily operations; and (v) Follow-on performance assessment, to identify lingering gaps and corrective measures, using participatory methodologies. Component III: Improved sustainable and gender-inclusive business practices for Local Waste Collectors’ Cooperatives: (i) Training needs assessment on the two cooperatives involved in the plastic waste supply chain; (ii) A Baseline assessment on performance to-date to identify key factors to monitor improvement through the end of the Project; (iii) Capacity Building and training workshops, focusing on the organizational capacity and operational efficiency of the cooperatives and market development; (iv) Support for the local waste collectors to develop a viable business model for the waste collection which allows them to run the facility at profit; (v) development and establishment of partnerships with other stakeholders in the plastic waste value chain, to improve access to market and opportunities; and (vi) Installation of collection and capacity building on managing it sustainably.