Projects

The Africa Institute is involved in a number of regional and national  projects. these include:

Project

Financial support from

e-Wastei Knowledge Transfer Project for Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa

Denmark

Inventory of hazardous wastei for Botswana

Denmark

National projects on hazardous industrial waste for Tanzania, Mauritius and Nigeria

Denmark

Strengthening of regional partnership for environmentally safe management and prevention of hazardous waste in Anglophone African countries - A three-year project focused on Basel Conventioni Activities with workshops, training, scholarships and other activities. The project will assist in developing AI into a sustainable regional knowledge and service centre on hazardous waste issues for the target countries. New mechanisms of twinning or peer review between the target countries will be developed and applied research will be facilitated by scholarships.

Finland

Management of Chemicals in English-Speaking African Countries - This project is aimed at strengthening the countries in the English speaking African region that are served by the Africa Institute (AI) to control and manage in an environmentally sound manner the movements of chemicals in the context of multilateral environmental agreements that they are parties to.
 - Assessesment of the Legal And Institutional Gaps with Needs Analysis in The Management of Chemicals for Africa Institute Member Countries -  to strengthen the national regulatory framework for the management of chemicals. Appointed country consultants will analyse the existing institutional arrangements for chemicals management  through describing the situation and identify gaps and needs within the country. To apply as consultant contact the country office listed on the project page.

 

KEMI (Swedish Chemical Agency)

Port enforcement projects for Kenya & Tanzania

Norway/GTZ

Project aimed at strengthening the capacity of Mozambique to monitor and control the transboundary movements of chemicals and hazardous wastes and ensure their environmentally sound management

SAICM Quick Start Programme Trust Fund

Project aimed at strengthening the capacity of Ethiopia to monitor and control the transboundary movements of chemicals and hazardous wastes and ensure their environmentally sound management

SAICM Quick Start Programme Trust Fund

Stockholm Conventioni PCB elimination project to facilitate a GEF SAPP project on PCBsi
- Report on the SADC/SAPP PCB Phase-out Wokshop in Johannesburg, South Africa - 10 to 12 May, 2011

Norway/SBC

Workshop on National Inventory and National Report of the Basel Convention for Africa in Pretoria, South Africa from 24-26 May 2011
- Proceedings (PDF)

European Commission