Annual PROMAR Meeting 2025- Paramaribo, Suriname
PROMAR has successfully concluded its week-long Annual Meeting in Paramaribo, Suriname 🇸🇷, hosted with exceptional support from our PROMAR Suriname team, Green Heritage Fund Suriname 🤝.
The meeting brought together representatives from Guyana, Suriname, St. Kitts & Nevis, the British Virgin Islands, and Trinidad & Tobago to:
• Review progress on activities, outputs, and indicators 📈
• Discuss challenges and map targeted solutions 💬
• Present financially sustainable circular pilot models addressing plastic pollution ♻️
• Align on the 2026 work plan 📅
• Participate in a site visit to observe the marine litter context firsthand 🌊
We extend our appreciation to Amar Munnolimath for facilitating the sessions and guiding the discussions with expertise 👏.
PROMAR remains deeply committed to strengthening regional cooperation and advancing sustainable, innovative solutions for marine litter reduction across the Caribbean 🌿.
PROMAR at ISWA 2025 in Buenos Aires
PROMAR and adelphi were represented by Richard Berner at the ISWA 2025 World Congress (27–29 October, Buenos Aires), held under the motto "Towards a Wasteless Future or a Wasteful Planet?"
Richard presented PROMAR's work through both a poster and an oral presentation to an international audience of waste management experts and policymakers.
Key highlights of the oral presentation included PROMAR's capacity-building programme in the five SIDS countries— six interactive training modules on EPR design and implementation — as well as hands-on activities like stakeholder mapping, policy prototyping, and the development of national EPR roadmaps together with local industry and policymakers.
The goal: systemic change in waste governance tailored to the realities of small island developing countries.
