Third African Clean Cities Platform Assembly

More than 100 cities form 42 countries from Africa will convene to exchange knowledge and share good practices towards Clean and Circular Africa Taking Place from 25 to 29 July, 2022.
25-29 July 2022 (12:00 to 15:00 EAT)

Africa’s urbanization rate is 3.5%, the highest in the world. Due to the rapid urbanization in recent years, municipal solid waste management has become a big challenge for many cities, as lower income cities in Africa expected to double their municipal solid waste generation within the next 15-20 years.

In order to address this ever-increasing waste issue, African Clean Cities Platform (ACCP) was established as knowledge sharing and investment promotion platform to achieve waste related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 in rapidly urbanizing Africa. Every three years, ACCP Secretariat hosted by UN-Habitat organizes Assembly to share knowledge and experiences as an official side event of TICAD (Tokyo International Conference on African Development).

Exchanging knowledge and experiences and creating partnerships with people who share the same challenges is a great way for ACCP members and partners to inspire future actions for creating clean cities and shifting towards circular economy. This year, the third ACCP Assembly hosted by Tunis will be held online from 25 to 29 July 2022, at 09.00-12.00 WAT / 10.00-13.00 CAT / 12.00-15.00 EAT, just one month before TICAD 8, allowing ACCP members to meet and capture the outcomes of activities laid out in Yokohama Action Guidance and agree on the ACCP activities in coming three years.

Supported with the digital technologies and the new online format the invitation to participate in the Assembly is extended beyond the ACCP members and is open to interested public.

The Assembly will showcase various scientific findings, cities’ progress towards waste SDGs, good practices, solutions and innovations to realize clean and circular Africa. More than 100 cities from 42 countries from Africa have signed up for this event. Join us!

 

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Africa Waste Webinar Series – Towards clean, healthy and circular cities in Africa – Webinar #5 Plastic Pollution from Waste – How to “stop the tap” of plastic leakage in African cities?

UN-Habitat, with support from The United Nations for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) and the Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa (CoMSSA) has been organizing the Africa Waste webinar series consisting of five webinars.

The series aim to share knowledge and experiences to tackle common challenges in solid waste management observed in the African continent so that the member countries and cities can interactively learn solutions for improved solid waste management and shift towards urban circular economy.

Plastic pollution is one of the most pressing contemporary issues. Plastic is a widely consumed product and plastic waste has become a pollutant because it takes many years to decompose. As a result, plastic waste accumulates in landfills and in the wild, when improperly disposed of. Plastic is found even in the most remote areas of the world in different sizes and shapes. Compared to other materials, plastic has also a low recovery rate when recycled. A proper disposal of plastic waste remains a challenge. The series is back on the 7th of July, with the 5th webinar titled “Plastic pollution from waste – How to “stop the tap” of plastic leakage in African cities?”

Webinar #5 Plastic pollution from waste – How to “stop the tap” of plastic leakage in African cities?
7 July 2022

It is known that about 80% of marine litter originates from land-based human activities. Furthermore, a big portion of marine litter is composed of plastic waste, some estimates say that every year, at least 11 million tons of plastic find their way into the world’s oceans. This is constituting an increasing risk to ecosystem health and biodiversity, while entailing substantial economic costs through its impacts on public health, tourism, shipping, fishing, and aquaculture.

This webinar highlighted the current findings of Waste Wise Cities Tool (WaCT), developed by UN-Habitat, and Waste Flow Diagram (WDF), developed by GIZ), focused on African cities to better grasp dynamics between solid waste management systems’ performances and plastic leakages as well as common trends in solid waste management in the Africa continent, while shedding light on emerging innovative solutions to tackle plastic pollution and stop plastic leakages.

 

Recording - French

Waste Wise Education Webinar in South-Asia

Waste Wise Education Webinar in South-Asia
8 June 2022

An educational dimension in waste management initiatives is critical since it encourages people to become environmentally conscious and to induce behavioural change towards sustainable waste and resource management.  That’s why one of the action areas of Waste Wise Cities and African Clean Cities Platform is Advocacy and Education. In 2020, UN-Habitat selected 19 innovative waste education practices that are replicable and scalable at schools around the world. While these best practices are accessible online,  we would like to introduce the theory and practical learnings directly to practitioners.

ISWA YPG, has been actively indulging in the education aspect of waste management with the support of a global cohort of professional volunteering to support the activities.

The ISWA YPG Education group, together with Waste Wise Cities of UN-Habitat, the local chapters of ISWA YPG Pakistan and Nepal organized a webinar which presented the South Asian context on environmental education in schools with a focus on solid waste management (SWM) and the South Asian best practices from India, Nepal, Bhutan and Pakistan. Similar webinars were conducted showcasing best practices from Africa and Latin America.

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Presentations

Mahesh Pradhan

Sakshi Sharma

Waste Warrior, India

Miwa Tatsuno

IGES-CCET, Bhutan

Murad Rana

Amal for Life, Pakistan

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Karuna Thapa

Clean-up Nepal, Nepal

Roland Thompson

ISWA YPG

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Africa Waste Webinar Series – Towards clean, healthy and circular cities in Africa – Webinar #4 Waste and Climate change: appropriate technologies and good practices in Africa

Africa’s urbanization rate is 3.5%, the highest in the world. Due to the rapid urbanization in recent years, municipal solid waste management has become a big challenge for many cities, as lower-income cities in Africa are expected to double their municipal solid waste generation within the next 15-20 years. 

UN-Habitat, with different partners, is working to address this ever-increasing waste issue in the urbanizing continent.

One of them is the African Clean Cities Platform (ACCP), which was established in 2017 in Maputo, Mozambique, with 24 African countries representative together with the Ministry of Environment of Japan (MoEJ), the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the City of Yokohama, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) with the aim of sharing knowledge and good practice and promoting investment in waste management to realize clean cities in Africa by 2030.

UN-Habitat, with support from The United Nations for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), is implementing a project in Sierra Leone, South-South Cooperation in Sustainable Waste Management – Waste Wise Koidu, supported by the Government of China, facilitating city-to-city knowledge, experience exchanges and partnerships brokering through the form of south-south and triangular collaboration.

With the Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa (CoM SSA), UN-Habitat is providing capacity development training on waste and energy in the Covid-19 recovery context for Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Kenya promoting city-to-city cooperation and knowledge sharing around municipal solid waste management to mitigate climate change.

As a part of a joint effort of various initiatives above, the Africa Waste Webinar Series aim to share knowledge and experiences to tackle common challenges in solid waste management observed in the continent so that the member countries and cities can interactively learn solutions for improved solid waste management and shift towards urban circular economy. The webinar series consists of below five webinars:

  1. How to Improve Waste Collection Rate in African Cities?
  2. Covid Waste Management in Africa
  3. How to Turn Open Dumpsites to Controlled Waste Disposal Facility in African Cities?
  4. Waste and climate change – Appropriate technologies and good practices in Africa
  5. Plastic pollution from waste – How to “stop the tap” of plastic leakage in African cities?

Webinar #4 - Waste and Climate Change: appropriate technologies and good practices in Africa
19 May 2022
2 pm (GMT+3)

UN-Habitat, with support from The United Nations for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) and the Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa (CoMSSA), organized a webinar titled Waste and Climate change – Appropriate technologies and good practices in Africa, the 4th webinar in the Africa Waste Webinar Series.

Methane is the solid waste sector’s largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, leading to global warming and climate change. Methane gas is released when organic waste decomposes in an oxygen-limited/free environment (e.g. dumpsite), while pollutants and particulate matter arise through inefficient transportation and burning. 

The fourth webinar focused on the topic of waste and climate change, and on the organic waste treatment, as well as project financing. It was shared some good practices in Africa, that can be considered as an option for other African cities to borrow.

Recording - English

Recording - French

Presentations

Sandra Mazo-Nix

Climate and Clean Air Coalition

Reka Soos

RWA group

Dražen Kučan

Green Climate Fund

Jiao Tang

R20 Foundation

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Africa Waste Webinar Series – Towards clean, healthy and circular cities in Africa – Webinar #3 How to Turn Open Dumpsites to Controlled Waste Disposal Facility in African Cities?

Africa’s urbanization rate is 3.5%, the highest in the world. Due to the rapid urbanization in recent years, municipal solid waste management has become a big challenge for many cities, as lower-income cities in Africa are expected to double their municipal solid waste generation within the next 15-20 years. 

UN-Habitat, with different partners, is working to address this ever-increasing waste issue in the urbanizing continent.

One of them is the African Clean Cities Platform (ACCP), which was established in 2017 in Maputo, Mozambique, with 24 African countries representative together with the Ministry of Environment of Japan (MoEJ), the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the City of Yokohama, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) with the aim of sharing knowledge and good practice and promoting investment in waste management to realize clean cities in Africa by 2030.

UN-Habitat, with support from The United Nations for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), is implementing a project in Sierra Leone, South-South Cooperation in Sustainable Waste Management – Waste Wise Koidu, supported by the Government of China, facilitating city-to-city knowledge, experience exchanges and partnerships brokering through the form of south-south and triangular collaboration.

With the Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa (CoM SSA), UN-Habitat is providing capacity development training on waste and energy in the Covid-19 recovery context for Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Kenya promoting city-to-city cooperation and knowledge sharing around municipal solid waste management to mitigate climate change.

As a part of a joint effort of various initiatives above, the Africa Waste Webinar Series aim to share knowledge and experiences to tackle common challenges in solid waste management observed in the continent so that the member countries and cities can interactively learn solutions for improved solid waste management and shift towards urban circular economy. The webinar series consists of below five webinars:

  1. How to Improve Waste Collection Rate in African Cities?
  2. Covid Waste Management in Africa
  3. How to Turn Open Dumpsites to Controlled Waste Disposal Facility in African Cities?
  4. Waste and climate change – Appropriate technologies and good practices in Africa
  5. Plastic pollution from waste – How to “stop the tap” of plastic leakage in African cities?

Webinar #3 - How to Turn Open Dumpsites to Controlled Waste Disposal Facility in African Cities?
30 March 2022

COP 26 in 2021 also highlighted the prevention of methane from open burning and open dumping from waste management. Open burning is a common practice of waste disposal at generation point where people lack access to waste collection services, and most of the municipal solid waste generated in the African continent is currently disposed in open dumpsites. These are a major source of methane and other short-lived climate pollutants such as black carbon. The last webinar focused on this topic, recognizing the current status and challenges with different ACCP members, exploring appropriate solutions.

Recording - English

Recording - French

Presentations

Ephrem Sisay

Addis Ababa

Solomon Noi

Accra

Toshikazu Mito

UN-Habitat

Peter Kwei  Dagadu

Gana

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Africa Waste Webinar Series – Towards clean, healthy and circular cities in Africa – Webinar #2 COVID Waste: What Additional Challenge was Imposed on African Cities

Africa’s urbanization rate is 3.5%, the highest in the world. Due to the rapid urbanization in recent years, municipal solid waste management has become a big challenge for many cities, as lower-income cities in Africa are expected to double their municipal solid waste generation within the next 15-20 years. 

UN-Habitat, with different partners, is working to address this ever-increasing waste issue in the urbanizing continent.

One of them is the African Clean Cities Platform (ACCP), which was established in 2017 in Maputo, Mozambique, with 24 African countries representative together with the Ministry of Environment of Japan (MoEJ), the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the City of Yokohama, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) with the aim of sharing knowledge and good practice and promoting investment in waste management to realize clean cities in Africa by 2030.

UN-Habitat, with support from The United Nations for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), is implementing a project in Sierra Leone, South-South Cooperation in Sustainable Waste Management – Waste Wise Koidu, supported by the Government of China, facilitating city-to-city knowledge, experience exchanges and partnerships brokering through the form of south-south and triangular collaboration.

With the Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa (CoM SSA), UN-Habitat is providing capacity development training on waste and energy in the Covid-19 recovery context for Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Kenya promoting city-to-city cooperation and knowledge sharing around municipal solid waste management to mitigate climate change.

As a part of a joint effort of various initiatives above, the Africa Waste Webinar Series aim to share knowledge and experiences to tackle common challenges in solid waste management observed in the continent so that the member countries and cities can interactively learn solutions for improved solid waste management and shift towards urban circular economy. The webinar series consists of below five webinars:

  1. How to Improve Waste Collection Rate in African Cities?
  2. Covid Waste Management in Africa
  3. How to Turn Open Dumpsites to Controlled Waste Disposal Facility in African Cities?
  4. Waste and climate change – Appropriate technologies and good practices in Africa
  5. Plastic pollution from waste – How to “stop the tap” of plastic leakage in African cities?

Webinar #2 - COVID Waste: What Additional Challenge was Imposed on African Cities
24 February 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic imposed additional burden to African cities who are already overwhelmed by the rapidly increasing amount of solid waste to manage.  The pandemic has resulted in increased amount of mixed waste, including infectious waste and plastic waste. The second webinar addresses the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare waste and introduces relevant technologies to deal with such waste through UNEP’s Compendium of Technologies for Treatment/Destruction of Healthcare Waste.

Recording - English

Recording - French

Presentations

Jorge Emmanuel

Philippines

Gladys Ngeno

Kenya

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Africa Waste Webinar Series – Towards clean, healthy and circular cities in Africa – Webinar #2 COVID Waste: What Additional Challenge was Imposed on African Cities

Africa’s urbanization rate is 3.5%, the highest in the world. Due to the rapid urbanization in recent years, municipal solid waste management has become a big challenge for many cities, as lower-income cities in Africa are expected to double their municipal solid waste generation within the next 15-20 years. 

UN-Habitat, with different partners, is working to address this ever-increasing waste issue in the urbanizing continent.

One of them is the African Clean Cities Platform (ACCP), which was established in 2017 in Maputo, Mozambique, with 24 African countries representative together with the Ministry of Environment of Japan (MoEJ), the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the City of Yokohama, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) with the aim of sharing knowledge and good practice and promoting investment in waste management to realize clean cities in Africa by 2030.

UN-Habitat, with support from The United Nations for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), is implementing a project in Sierra Leone, South-South Cooperation in Sustainable Waste Management – Waste Wise Koidu, supported by the Government of China, facilitating city-to-city knowledge, experience exchanges and partnerships brokering through the form of south-south and triangular collaboration.

With the Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa (CoM SSA), UN-Habitat is providing capacity development training on waste and energy in the Covid-19 recovery context for Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Kenya promoting city-to-city cooperation and knowledge sharing around municipal solid waste management to mitigate climate change.

As a part of a joint effort of various initiatives above, the Africa Waste Webinar Series aim to share knowledge and experiences to tackle common challenges in solid waste management observed in the continent so that the member countries and cities can interactively learn solutions for improved solid waste management and shift towards urban circular economy. The webinar series consists of below five webinars:

  1. How to Improve Waste Collection Rate in African Cities?
  2. Covid Waste Management in Africa
  3. How to Turn Open Dumpsites to Controlled Waste Disposal Facility in African Cities?
  4. Waste and climate change – Appropriate technologies and good practices in Africa
  5. Plastic pollution from waste – How to “stop the tap” of plastic leakage in African cities?

Webinar #2 - COVID Waste: What Additional Challenge was Imposed on African Cities
24 February 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic imposed additional burden to African cities who are already overwhelmed by the rapidly increasing amount of solid waste to manage.  The pandemic has resulted in increased amount of mixed waste, including infectious waste and plastic waste. The second webinar addresses the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare waste and introduces relevant technologies to deal with such waste through UNEP’s Compendium of Technologies for Treatment/Destruction of Healthcare Waste.

Recording - English

Recording - French

Presentations

Jorge Emmanuel

Philippines

Gladys Ngeno

Kenya

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Africa Waste Webinar Series – Towards clean, healthy and circular cities in Africa – Webinar #1 – Waste Collection: How to Improve Waste Collection Rate in African Cities?

Africa’s urbanization rate is 3.5%, the highest in the world. Due to the rapid urbanization in recent years, municipal solid waste management has become a big challenge for many cities, as lower-income cities in Africa are expected to double their municipal solid waste generation within the next 15-20 years. 

UN-Habitat, with different partners, is working to address this ever-increasing waste issue in the urbanizing continent.

One of them is the African Clean Cities Platform (ACCP), which was established in 2017 in Maputo, Mozambique, with 24 African countries representative together with the Ministry of Environment of Japan (MoEJ), the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the City of Yokohama, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) with the aim of sharing knowledge and good practice and promoting investment in waste management to realize clean cities in Africa by 2030.

UN-Habitat, with support from The United Nations for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), is implementing a project in Sierra Leone, South-South Cooperation in Sustainable Waste Management – Waste Wise Koidu, supported by the Government of China, facilitating city-to-city knowledge, experience exchanges and partnerships brokering through the form of south-south and triangular collaboration.

With the Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa (CoM SSA), UN-Habitat is providing capacity development training on waste and energy in the Covid-19 recovery context for Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Kenya promoting city-to-city cooperation and knowledge sharing around municipal solid waste management to mitigate climate change.

As a part of a joint effort of various initiatives above, the Africa Waste Webinar Series aim to share knowledge and experiences to tackle common challenges in solid waste management observed in the continent so that the member countries and cities can interactively learn solutions for improved solid waste management and shift towards urban circular economy. The webinar series consists of below five webinars.

  1. How to Improve Waste Collection Rate in African Cities?
  2. Covid Waste Management in Africa
  3. How to Turn Open Dumpsites to Controlled Waste Disposal Facility in African Cities?
  4. Waste and climate change – Appropriate technologies and good practices in Africa
  5. Plastic pollution from waste – How to “stop the tap” of plastic leakage in African cities?

Webinar #1 - Waste Collection: How to Improve Waste Collection Rate in African Cities?
31 January 2022

The first webinar addressed the issue of waste collection – many cities in Africa struggles to achieve high waste collection rate. UN-Habitat studies on Waste Wise Cities Tool so far have found that waste collection rate in Sub-Saharan African cities ranges from 7% to 60%, observing huge amount of uncollected waste becomes a public health concern. The first webinar invited founder of Mr. Paulin Buregeya, Chief Executive Officer of COPED Ltd (Compagnie pour l’Environnement et Développement au Rwanda), to speak Kigali’s experience to improve waste collection rate to more than 80%. The another speaker is from Bukavu City DRC Mr. Francis Sawanga, the ACCP focal person from the city. Bukavu City applied Waste Wise Cities Tool in 2021 and the survey results showed 7% of waste collection rate. The session explored how African cities can improve the waste collection coverage, through presentations and dialogue between prominent speakers.

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Paulin Buregeya

Kigali, Rwanda

 

François Venance Alwende

Bukavu, DRC

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Residuos Sólidos – Experiencias Innovadoras en Latinoamérica

El grupo de Educación ISWA YPG, junto con Waste Wise Cities de ONU-HABITAT, los capítulos locales del ISWA YPG Colombia y ISWA YPG Perú y sus aliados locales, ofreció el WEBINAR DE EDUCACIÓN AMBIENTAL EN RESIDUOS SÓLIDOS.

En este webinar se presento el contexto latinoamericano sobre la educación ambiental en residuos sólidos, experiencias exitosas de educación con impacto en comunidades y resultados positivos sobre educación, entre otros. 

The ISWA YPG Education group, together with Waste Wise Cities from UN-HABITAT, the local chapters of ISWA YPG Colombia and ISWA YPG Peru and their local partners, organized the event WASTE WISE EDUCACTION WEBINAR FOR LATIN AMERICA to be held on October 16.

This webinar (in Spanish) presented the Latin American context on environmental education in solid waste, successful experiences of education with impact on communities and positive results on education, among others.

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Presentadores y Presentaciones

Claudia Rivadeneira Canedo

Helvetas Guatemala

Chiara Arévalo Harman 

Ciudad Saludable

Beatriz Helena Giraldo

Colegio los Nogales

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Diana Paez

En Modo Acción

Diana Milena Rodríguez Velosa 

Colegio Mundo Verde

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Reducción de la Pérdida y Desperdicio de Alimentos – Compartiendo Buenas Prácticas Regionales en Latinoamérica

Aproximadamente el 14 % de la producción mundial de alimentos se pierde antes llegar a la mesa del consumidor y un porcentaje significativo se desperdicia siendo aun totalmente apto para el consumo humano. Asimismo, no solo se desperdician los alimentos no consumidos, sino todos los recursos utilizados para su producción, como la tierra, el agua, la mano de obra, etc. Se estima, además, que entre el 8-10%1 de las emisiones globales de GEIs están asociadas a alimentos que no son consumidos.

En este contexto y en línea con la meta 12.3 de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) que insta a reducir, para el año 2030, a la mitad el desperdicio de alimentos y reducir las pérdidas de alimentos en las cadenas de producción y suministro, surge la necesidad de crear conciencia global sobre esta problemática. Con tal fin, el Proyecto Urban Pathways, financiado por la Iniciativa Internacional sobre el Clima (IKI) del Ministerio de Medio Ambiente de Alemania e implementado por el Instituto Wuppertal para el Clima, el Medioambiente y la Energía y ONU Hábitat, organizó el Seminario Web “Reducción de la Pérdida y Desperdicio de Alimentos”.

Su objetivo fue conocer y compartir ejemplos de buenas prácticas en Latinoamérica, abordando la problemática de la pérdida y desperdicio de alimentos (PDA) desde diferentes enfoques y con la participación de diferentes actores que compartan políticas, iniciativas y soluciones innovadoras de la región.

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Presentadores y presentaciones

Beatriz Martins Carneiro

Sara Granados

Natalia Basso

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