Report

Integrated Waste Management in Africa: Focus on Circularity

Integrated Waste Management in Africa: Focus on Circularity

This report presents an analysis of the implementation and results of the SWITCH Africa Green programme in the integrated waste management (IWM) sector focusing on the participating countries: Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, South Africa and Uganda. It covers the strategic interventions in the waste sector notably municipal solid waste management, e-waste management, waste to energy (e.g. biogas production and briquette production), as well as industrial symbiosis (IS). It analyses the results realised, cross cutting issues, challenges, lessons learnt and presents a set of recommendations.
The report is informed by a SWITCH Africa Green programme survey carried out in May 2018, grantee reports, case studies, peer reviews and regional stakeholder consultations including a regional sector meeting held on 11-12 June 2019 in Accra, Ghana. The report is one of four sector reports, one for each of the priority sectors of the programme: agriculture, manufacturing, tourism and IWM.