SECOND LIFE — Circular Economy & Livelihoods Initiative
Stage: Funding
A circular-economy initiative transforming recoverable waste into safer livelihoods, enterprise opportunities and environmental value through collection, sorting, value addition and market linkage.
How we can work together
Partners may sponsor the complete project or agree on a defined phase after reviewing the scope, budget, timeline and reporting plan. Ameliorate Missions will serve as the local implementing partner: coordinating consultations and required approvals, recruitment, training, execution, safeguarding, financial records and progress reports. Responsibilities, payment arrangements and any restrictions will be set out in a written agreement before work begins.
For projects at a planning stage, activities and targets below are proposals. We will publish verified field updates as work progresses.
Contact us to discuss sponsoring this project →Why this project exists
To develop viable circular-economy livelihood pathways that increase the value captured by low-income participants while reducing recoverable materials entering unmanaged waste streams.
The project will begin with waste-stream and market mapping rather than equipment purchases. Viable material streams may include plastics, glass, textiles, selected metals and other recoverable materials.
Depending on feasibility findings, activities may include safe collection, aggregation, sorting, value addition, technical skills, enterprise development, buyer agreements, savings mechanisms and market linkage.
How partnership helps
Valuable recyclable materials often move through informal systems in which the people doing the hardest collection work capture the least value and may operate in unsafe conditions.
SECOND LIFE seeks to improve both sides of that equation: recover greater value from discarded materials while creating safer and more sustainable economic pathways for people.
What we intend to achieve
Indicators may include participants trained, income progression, jobs/enterprises created, buyer relationships established, quantity of recoverable material diverted, occupational-safety compliance and participant retention. Final indicators and targets will follow feasibility work.