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
adelphi and the PROMAR project 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.
