Climate Sessions
JOU-02-C | Climate Day– CoM SSA
19 May
9:00 to 12:30
Venue: Room C
LEAD ORGANIZER
PRESENTATION OF THE SESSION
| Waste Management is challenge African cities are facing. Africities Summit, where intermediary cities are present, offers an opportunity to address the challenge and share knowledge of successful instruments in place that are supporting in the development of a circular economy and sustainable urban development. The waste sector (including solid and wastewater) is the second source of GHG emissions, after energy, for most local territories supported by the CoM SSA initiative and poor waste management increases the vulnerability of local populations to extreme climate events. As Sub–Saharan African cities continue to grow (and especially intermediary cities), they will continue generating increasing amounts of waste, with large amounts, mainly plastics, due to lack of effective waste management, flowing into our surrounding water bodies: rivers, lakes, and oceans, therefore, affecting ecosystems and species, but also the health of populations. As waste management is a local government mandate, an important share of the local revenue is dedicated towards waste management, and more so towards collection and transport instead of treatment and disposal. African cities have the urgent need to efficiently address this issue by identifying the major sources of emissions from the waste sector and how to prevent the effect of climate change and provide better services to their inhabitants through better waste management. This session, therefore, tackles the climate-related challenges of waste management from waste generation, transport, landfills, and dumpsites to recycling as well as the solutions to combat this crisis. Waste Management: Good practices and lessons learned from local governments in Sub-Saharan Africa Session 1 – Organic waste treatment: Specificities of two main organic waste treatment technologies: composting and anaerobic digestion Biogas? Session 2 – Waste management: collection, Sorting and Sensitization: success stories Sorting practices in place – examples from SSA cities Sensitization mechanisms Innovative solutions (reusing, recycling, or waste) Session 3 – Session on wastewater: Protect Water ressources Wastewater to energy: Feasible examples (examples from local governments in West Africa/in SSA) |
PANEL
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Chairperson
Joseph Munda Bindi
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Rapporteur
TBC
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Facilitator
Caroline Sawe
CoM SSA Secretary
Programme
Summary
Speakers
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Jean Pierre Elong Mbassi
General Secretary of United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLG Africa)
Mr Jean Pierre Elong Mbassi has been the Secretary General of United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLG Africa) since 2007. He was Chairman of the Cities Alliance Interim Management Board until April 2016. He is also Co-Chairman of the World Cities Scientific Development Alliance (WCSDA), and Deputy Secretary General of the China-Africa Forum of Local Authorities. Mr Elong Mbassi is the man behind the Africities Summits, the most important event of African cities, regions and local authorities, which he has overseen since the first edition in 1998. Mr. Elong Mbassi has nearly 40 years of experience in urban development and land use planning, urban services, local economic development, local community governance, housing and slum restructuring. From 1996 to 1999, he was the very first Secretary General of the World Association of Cities and Local Authorities Coordination (WACLAC), at the same time as he was Secretary General of the Municipal Development Partnership (MDP) from 1992 to 2006. Previously, from 1981 to 1991, Mr. Elong Mbassi was the director of the first urban project co-financed by the World Bank in Cameroon, which focused on the restructuring and development of an unhealthy housing area of 300,000 inhabitants in the city of Douala. Mr. Elong Mbassi began his professional career in Paris, France, where he was a researcher and then a project manager at the Cooperation and Development Agency from 1973 to 1980.
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Kobie Brand
CEO & Regional Director, ICLEI Africa
Ms. Brand has over 17 years of practical and managerial experience in Integrated Environmental Management – specifically policy, strategy and programme development and management – at local, national and international level. Ms. Brand is responsible for strategic direction, positioning, partnerships, programmes and scope of the ICLEA Africa Secretariat. She has Postgraduate degree of Stellenbosch University, as well as associated additional qualification in Political Philosophy and Law. Recipient of award, Environmental Communicator of the Year, South African Network for Coastal and Oceanic Research (2002)
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Lee MAIYANI KINYANJUI
Nakuru County Governor
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Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o
Governor of Kisumu County, Republic of Kenya
Honourable Professor Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o is the Governor of Kisumu County, Republic of Kenya. Prior to his election as Governor, he was the Senator of Kisumu County from 2013 to 2017. Professor Nyong’o served as the Minister for Medical Services of the Republic of Kenya from 2008 to 2013. Before then, he was Minister for Planning and National Development from 2003 to 2005. As Planning Minister, Professor Nyong’o led the formulation of the Economic Recovery Strategy for Wealth and Employment Creation (ERS); the economic transformation blueprint credited for the positive turn in Kenya’s development under the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) government. An accomplished academic, he holds a M.A and PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) in Political Science & Philosophy from Makerere University College, Kampala – Uganda. He has published a number of books, articles in refereed journals as well as edited volumes on diverse issues in international politics and development. He is a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), where he was also Head of Programmes, before moving to the African Research and Resource Forum (ARRF) as founding Director. Professor Nyong’o is an avid writer and editor. He edited New Path: Journal of African Intellectual Thought (African Research and Resource Forum, Nairobi) and was a member of the International Editorial Committee, Estudios de Asia y Africa, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico D.F and the International Advisory Board, Development and Change, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. From October to December 2013, Professor Nyong'o was a Brundtland Senior Leadership Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In this role, he taught a course in the Department of Global Health and Population titled "Leadership Development in Global Health and Policy-Making in Kenya”. He has served in a number of international committees and Boards including the Africa Monitor; The Nelson Mandela Institute for Science Technology and the Advancement of Knowledge; and the UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA). For his accomplishments, Professor Nyong’o has won two distinguished awards, namely the 1995 German-African Award for contribution to scholarship and democratization and the 2005 Africa Brain Gain Award by the Kenyan American Professional Association and Career Nation for contribution to reversing Africa’s brain drain.
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Pr. Geoffrey WAHUNGU
DG of National Environment Management Authority
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Stefano SIGNORE
Head of CC Unit INTPA Expertise France or AFD Eastern Africa
KEY QUESTIONS TO BE DEBATED
BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS
GALLERY
Parallel Sessions
- 9:00 to 12:30 YOUTH SESSION / JOU-07 / ROOM B INTERMEDIARY AND INCLUSIVE CITIES: WHAT PLACES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Venue:
- 9:00 to 12:30 SOU-82 | METROPOLISES AS A DRIVING FORCE FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Venue: Room 3
- 9:00 to 12:30 SOU-49 | INVEST IN KISUMU Venue: HALL D
- 9:00 to 12:30 SOU-82 | METROPOLISES AS A DRIVING FORCE FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Venue: Room 3
- 9:30 to 12:00 SOU-63|UN-HABITAT INVESTMENT ROUNDTABLE: UNLOCKING RESOURCES TO FINANCE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Venue: Room 6
- 11:00 to 12:30 SOU-57 | THE CITY WE NEED NOW ! THE ROLE OF INTERMEDIARY CITIES Venue: Room 9
- 9:00 to 12:30 SOU-54 | CITY TO CITY, PEER LEARNING FORUM- (THE AFRICAN EXPERIENCE) Venue: Room 10
- 9:00 to 12:30 SOU-02| THE LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROCESS IN KISUMU, KENYA Venue: Room 19
- 9:00 to 12:30 SOU-60| AFRICAN INTERMEDIARY CITIES: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR MASS PRODUCTION OF DECENT HOUSING Venue: Room 13
- 9:00 to 12:30 SOU-17| CENTRALIZATION AND PROCESSING OF LOCAL AUTHORITY FINANCIAL DATA Venue: Room 14
- 9:00 to 12:30 SOU-80 | MAKING CITIES RESILIENT 2030: LEVERAGING PARTNERSHIPS FOR RESILIENCE BUILDING Venue: Room 15
- 9:00 to 12:30 SOU-64 | THE CATALYTIC ROLE OF FINANCIAL ACCESS FOR MSMES OWNED BY WOMEN, YOUTH AND OTHER VULNERABLE GROUPS ON THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABLE INTERMEDIARY CITIES OF AFRICA Venue: Room 16
- 9:00 to 12:30 SOU-29 | ASSESSMENT AND PROSPECTS OF TRANSFERS OF POWERS AND RESOURCES FROM THE STATE TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN MALI Venue: Room 17
- 9:00 to 12:30 SOU-100 | FOSTERING COLLLECTIVE CLIMATE ACTION AND CITY RESILIENCE IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT Venue: Room 19
- 9:30 to 12:00 SOU-12 |AFFORDABLE HOUSING FINANCE IN INTERMEDIARY CITIES Venue: Room 20
- 9:00 to 12:30 SOU-04 | THE PLACE OF THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND WASTE MANAGEMENT IN THE ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION OF INTERMEDIARY CITIES Venue: UCLG AFRICA/ALGA booth
- 9:00 to 12:30 SOU-67 | DIGITALIZATION OF HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVED PLANNING, RESPONSE AND HEALTH OUTCOMES Venue: Room 2
- 9:00 to 12:30 SOU-71 | KENYA’S DEVOLVED GOVERNANCE: PROMOTING NATIONAL UNITY THROUGH PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND INCLUSIVITY IN URBAN MANAGEMENT Venue: Room 4
- 9:00 to 10:30 SOU-57 | OWN SOURCE REVENUE OPTIMIZATION: THE ROLE OF REFORM INCENTIVES AND HOW THEY CAN STRENGTHENED Venue: Room 9
- 9:00 to 12:30 SOU-77 |CHAMPIONING SAFE AND GREEN MOBILITY IN AFRICA’S CITIES Venue: Room 1
- 9:00 to 12:30 DOU-06 |Women's Day Intermediary Cities Facing Gender Challenges: African Women’s Right To Land Ownership As A Critical Factor For Her Economic Empowerment Venue: Hall A