Nationally Appropriate ⁠Mitigation⁠ Actions (NAMA) allow emerging economies and developing countries to design waste management strategies and systems that lead to effective greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions. On a side event at IFAT / Munich in June 2016 international experts from climate policy and waste management exchanged their experiences on key features of Waste-NAMAs, such as funding and financing, participatory processes and informed decision-making across all levels and involvement the private sector.  The example of monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of Peruvian Waste-NAMA demonstrated the workload involved and the demands for standardized methods.