African Clean Cities Platform

African Clean Cities Platform (ACCP) is a knowledge sharing and investment promotion platform to achieve waste related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 in rapidly urbanizing Africa.

ACCP was established in 2017 in Maputo, Mozambique, by representatives from
24 African countries together with the Ministry of Environment of Japan, 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). As of December 2021, 90 cities and 42 countries have become members of ACCP and various activities in the below listed action areas have been carried out since its establishment.

Mission: By 2030, African countries realize clean and healthy cities and achieve the Sustainable Developing Goals (SDGs) on waste management

Vision: Provide an open platform to support African countries and cities to find their own measures and solutions for sound waste management and the achievement of SDGs

UNEP has been working on waste management since its establishment in 1972. UNEP has been supporting the Member States in Africa to develop national and city waste management strategies, to improve current waste management issues and to introduce and implement environmentally sound management of waste within national context of waste management in each country.

As part of UNEP’s work on waste management in Africa, UNEP produced Africa Waste Management Outlook in 2018 which provides the comprehensive analysis of waste management situation in Africa. Also Africa Waste Management Outlook provides expertise and knowledge on environmentally sound management of waste which is one of solutions for Africa Region to combat the various issues on waste management.

UNEP provides expertise and knowledge on environmentally sound management of waste to the members of ACCP.

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. Many cities need to develop own capacity to improve waste management.

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

The webinar series consist of below four webinars.