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The overall objective of SWITCH Africa Green is to support 6 countries in Africa to achieve sustainable development by engaging in transition towards an inclusive green economy. The priority areas are Agriculture, Manufacturing, Tourism and Integrated Waste Management.

The overall objective of SWITCH Africa Green is to support 6 countries in Africa to achieve sustainable development by engaging in transition towards an inclusive green economy. The priority areas are Agriculture, Manufacturing, Tourism and Integrated Waste Management.

The overall objective of SWITCH Africa Green is to support 6 countries in Africa to achieve sustainable development by engaging in transition towards an inclusive green economy. The priority areas are Agriculture, Manufacturing, Tourism and Integrated Waste Management.

The objective of this toolkit is to engage Community Based Tour Operators, Tour Operators and county officials in the development of marketing strategies that can help bringing CBT-developed products and services to the market. The toolkit completes the training on business modelling and innovation development developed by SUS-TOUR partners and builds up on the concepts and tools already introduced in the training workbook.

The SWITCH Africa Green Country Implementation Plan details the findings of the policy support component for the Republic of Mauritius, including Rodrigues, with regard to the identified priority sectors namely: Agriculture, Manufacturing, and Tourism, with Energy, Water, Eco Innovation, Eco Labelling and Sustainable Trade as crosscutting issues.

In this quarter the SWITCH Africa Green project carried out technical monitoring of projects in three countries: Ghana, Kenya and Uganda. Technical Monitoring involves review, monitoring and assessment of the uptake of SCP practices by the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) who are the final beneficiaries of the project.

The Quarterly Report highlights activities carried out under the SWITCH Africa Green Programme during the period between July and September 2016.

With rising global demand for food, there is an urgent need to find climate-smart ways to intensify agricultural production.

The Green Economy Strategy is geared towards enabling Kenya to attain a higher economic growth rate consistent with the Vision 2030, which firmly embeds the principles of sustainable development in the overall national growth strategy.

The Quarterly Reports provides highlights of activities carried out under the SWITCH Africa Green Programme between April and June 2016.

In January – March 2016 quarter, national stakeholder workshops were held in Burkina Faso, Mauritius and South Africa. The workshops aimed to provide an avenue for the common understanding of the overall project objectives, roles and responsibilities as well as the expectations and required outputs of the country projects among the national stakeholders, grantees, partners and final beneficiaries (MSMEs).

In the October - December 2015 quarter, grants were awarded to successful applicants in Burkina Faso, Mauritius, South Africa and the multi country projects. The Multi country grantees have projects that cover all the 6 pilot countries (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, South Africa and Uganda).

Two multi-country projects were supported through the SWITCH Africa Green Programme. One of the projects was ‘Enhancing resource productivity and environmental performance of MSMEs in 6 African countries through the concept of Industrial symbiosis (IS) implemented through collaboration with the Africa Round Table on Sustainable Consumption and Production (ARSCP).

The Quarterly Report highlight key activities that were carried out in the period between 01 July 2015 and 30 September 2015. 

The SWITCH Africa Green Country Implementation Plan presents output of consultations held with the key stakeholders during the different levels of the formulation of the Programme; contributing to the formulation and development of the key project themes and criteria and key elements of the Programme in Ghana; and the institutional processes for the Country Implementation strategy are included.

SWITCH Africa Green is an EU funded programme being implemented by UNEP (in collaboration with UNDP and UNOPS) in 6 pilot countries in Africa.

By 2030, Zambia aspires to live in a strong and dynamic middle-income industrial nation that provides opportunities for improving the well being of all and have a productive environment and well conserved natural resources base for sustainable socio-economic development.

Unsustainable consumption and production is responsible for land degradation, air and water pollution, resource depletion and the associated ecological and social challenges that characterize Uganda today. The World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2002 re-emphasized the fact that unsustainable patterns of consumption and production are the key primary causes of environmental degradation.

The National Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) Plan for Burkina Faso was developed in 2010. The SCP Plan addresses strategies to address several environmental problems such as water scarcity, soil degradation, deforestation, reduction of biodiversity and pollution that are directly linked to consumption and production patterns.