Sectors · Waste management

Waste management

Waste and circular economy analysis for the enhancement of Nigeria's NDC (2021 to 2025) for the African Development Bank, with a support study on the Nigeria Food and Beverage Recycling Alliance.

A recycling collection team, Lagos, Nigeria (illustration) — Illustration: A recycling collection team, Lagos, Nigeria. Photo: King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) - Africa program, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Documented work in this sector

Tinubu Square, Lagos Island, Lagos, Nigeria (illustration)

Study

Nigeria · African Development Bank (AfDB & Dutch RVO)

Nigeria's transition to a green economy.

A detailed evaluation of the current landscape for transitioning Nigeria from an unsustainable linear economic model to a circular model along critical sectors, and of the public-private partnership investments that link circularity to natural capital.

Read the case Illustration: Tinubu Square, Lagos Island, Lagos, Nigeria. Photo Jeremy Weate from Abuja, Nigeria, CC BY 2.0.

Framework

Nigeria · African Development Bank (AfDB & Dutch RVO)

A roadmap framework for a circular Nigeria by 2050.

Built on a Theory of Change, the framework sets out the strategies and activities to be carried out towards transitioning Nigeria to a circular economy in 2050, accompanied by an MRV policy brief and a policy brief.

Read the case Illustration: A recycling collection team, Lagos, Nigeria. Photo King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) - Africa program, CC BY 2.0.

Kigali at dusk, Kigali, Rwanda (illustration)

Study

Rwanda · Analysis period 1960 to 2030

Methane from Rwanda's solid waste disposal sites, 1960 to 2030.

A Tier 2 estimate of methane emissions from solid waste disposal sites in Rwanda from 1960 to 2030, using the IPCC First Order Decay model, as a component of carbon accounting for the waste sector.

Read the case Illustration: Kigali at dusk, Kigali, Rwanda. Photo Adrien K, CC BY 2.0.

Volunteers clearing waste from a market drain, Nigeria (illustration)

Report

Nigeria · African Development Bank (AfDB) · December 2020 to March 2021

Waste and circular economy analysis for Nigeria's enhanced NDC.

Analysis of greenhouse gas emissions from waste management in Nigeria and of the circular economy's impact on them, for the enhancement of the country's Nationally Determined Contribution for 2021 to 2025.

Read the case Illustration: Volunteers clearing waste from a market drain, Nigeria. Photo Abike25, CC BY-SA 4.0.