African Waste Forum 94: Proceedings of a Regional Training Workshop 23 to 25 November 1994 Nairobi, Kenya

The Settlement Infrastructure Environment Programme (SIEP) of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) organized a regional training workshop on waste management, African Waste Forum ‘94, from 23 to 25 November 1994. The participants comprised senior policy-makers, local authority managers and representatives from NGOs and private-sector organizations. Thirteen countries were represented from the African region: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. A programme of the workshop and list of participants are given in Appendices I and II respectively.

This report covers the proceedings of the workshop. Section I consists of background information for the workshop, together with objectives and outputs. Section II contains conclusions and recommendations of the workshop. Section III is a summary of the working group discussions. Section IV comprises demonstration projects which were identified as follow-up activities resulting from the working group sessions. The appendices provide supplementary information, including the opening statement by Habitat, the keynote address on behalf of UNCHS (Habitat) Assistant Secretary-General, and the opening statement by the Minister for Local Government, Kenya.