Circular Economy
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QA08
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QA08 – Promotion of Circular Economy
Start Date | Q1 01 January 2022 |
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rw29
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RW29- Assessment of Green City Kigali project and business delivery models
Start Date | Q1 |
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Actual Budget (USD) | 0 |
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RW28
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RW28- Rwanda Greenpreneurs Network
Start Date | Q1 2021 |
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Actual Budget (USD) | 0 |
Status | Active |
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RW21
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Countries
RW21-E – Waste to Resources: Improving Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and Hazardous Waste Management in Rwanda
Start Date | Q1 |
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Actual Budget (USD) | 0 |
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News
News • June 28, 2022
South-South Knowledge Exchange Program on Sustainable Solid Waste Management between Lao PDR and Pakistan
June 10 – 15. Islamabad, Pakistan – A Lao delegation with 4 GGGI Lao PDR staff visited Islamabad and Mardan, Pakistan for South-South Knowledge Exchange (SSKE) Program between Lao PDR and Pakistan, aiming to enhance solid waste management in Lao PDR by learning from the best practices of Pakistan. The delegation consisted of the government […]
News • June 28, 2022
Community of Practice capacity building on energy efficiency in buildings
Ouagadougou, June 16, 2022 – The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) in collaboration with the Ministry of Urban Planning, Land Affairs and Housing and the Order of Architect of Burkina Faso, organized a capacity building workshop on energy efficiency in buildings. This awareness workshop addressed the members of the Community of Practice (CoP) on sustainable […]
News • June 22, 2022
Access to climate finance as path to private sector investment in NDC and Green Emergent Plan
The country representative of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) reiterated, on Thursday, the support of this structure to the State of Senegal in the formulation and adoption of policies to increase green investment. ”I would like to recall that within the framework of our mandate and under its strategic objectives, the GGGI supports the […]
News • June 20, 2022
Rwanda hosts the “Africa Regional Forum for Action – Inclusive & Active Mobility in a Changing Climate “
7-9 June 2022, Kigali , Rwanda. More than 120 participants convened in Kigali, Rwanda to discuss the role of active mobility and non-motorized transport in climate mitigation. The event had participants from several organisations such as Transaid ;City of Kisumu ; Bridges to Prosperity ; National Malaria Elimination Centre, Ministry of Health ;UN Habitat ; […]
News • June 16, 2022
Government of Rwanda and GGGI Sign and endorse the new 2021-2025 Rwanda Country Planning Framework (CPF)
On 13 May, Kigali , Rwanda the Minister of State , Ministry of Infrastructure Eng Patricie Uwase and the GGGI Rwanda Country Representative Okechukwu Daniel Ogbonnaya have officially endorsed & signed the new five year 2021-2025 Rwanda Country Planning Framework (CPF). The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) would like to thank all the stakeholders and […]
News • June 8, 2022
GGGI District Technical Assistants (DTA’s) lead the Awareness raising workshop for the environmental protection committee’s members
Rwanda Environment Managament Authority in collaboration with GGGI Rwanda through the implementation of the the GCF Readiness & Preparatory Support Project to capacitate Rwanda’s Subnational Level Actors in Green Growth & Climate Change Resilience organized training workshops for Environmental Committees members in secondary cities. The training workshop was for Environmental Committees members from Nyagatare District […]
News • June 8, 2022
Workshop report on effective municipal solid waste management in City of Kigali
30-31 May 2022, Kigali, Rwanda the Global Green Growth Institute conducted a two days’ workshop at M Hotel on effective municipal solid waste management services in the City of Kigali from 30 to 31 May 2022. The workshop was attended private companies with business spanning across value chain of municipal waste management in the City […]
News • May 30, 2022
Multi-Stakeholder Dialogues as part of the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) on plastic waste pollution
Multi-stakeholder dialogues are part of the programme of the open-ended working group (OEWG). They are intended to engage and hear the voices of stakeholders that will be impacted by the international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, but who normally do not participate directly in the negotiations. The outcomes will be reflected in the OEWG […]
News • May 28, 2022
Intensensive Lab for the Green Senegal Emerging Plan launched
Dakar, May 23- Work on structuring the Emerging Senegalese Plan (PSE) started on Monday in Dakar, under the aegis of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, with a view to define the operational elements of this government programme serving as a new reference framework for public policies in Senegal. To this end, an “intensive […]
News • May 3, 2022
GCF Readiness and Preparatory Support Project -knowledge sharing and closure Workshop in Rwanda
29th April 2022, Kigali Rwanda, Global Green Growth Institute in collaboration with Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) hosted the GCF Readiness Preparatory Support Project Knowledge Sharing Workshop. With diverse audience that include NGO;s, GCF representatives, Rwanda Land Management Authority (RLMUA) , National Industrial Research and Development Agency (NIRDA), Cleaner Production and Climate Innovation Center (CPCIC), […]
News • May 3, 2022
Training Workshop on Sustainable Waste Management for Building Managers in Rwanda
Kigali, Rwanda from 20-21st April , 2022 the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) in partnership with COPED, a leading waste management company operating in Rwanda since 1999, conducted a two days’ workshop on Sustainable Waste Management and greening concept for building managers of hotels, commercial buildings and public office buildings. This workshop part of the […]
News • April 28, 2022
Uganda Building committees in 5 Districts trained on Green Buildings
What are building committees? In 2013, the Building Control Act of Uganda established a building committee in each district and urban authority. The Act also established the National Building Review Board (NBRB) to oversee the activities of the Building Committees. The building committee is responsible for issuing building permits after reviewing the building proposals submitted […]
News • April 21, 2022
GREEN COCKTAIL
On March 25th, 2022, was held an exchange event which turned around the project “support for the establishment of a national financial vehicle focusing on buildings and ecological infrastructures, the development of a system of minimum compliance of ecological buildings and the application in direct access for Cote d’Ivoire”. The exchange meeting, called Green […]
News • April 6, 2022
GGGI held the ordinary session of the senegal cooperation steering committee
The Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development convened the ordinary session of the steering committee of the GGGI country cooperation programme in Senegal in the presence of the statutory party members. As usual at the beginning of each year, the steering committee meets to examine the evolution of the implementation of the programme in 2021, […]
News • March 29, 2022
GGGI Participation in the World Water Forum 2022
The GGGI Senegal country office took part in the 9th World Water Forum in Dakar from March 21-26, 2022. GGGI Director-General, Dr. Frank Rijsberman, took part in the opening ceremony and conducted a series of meetings with government partners to review GGGI’s country cooperation portfolio. The country office exhibited in Hall B to share its […]
News • March 24, 2022
Grand opening of Integrated Resource Recovery Center (IRRC) and handover ceremony of electric waste collection trucks held in Vientiane Capital
March 23, 2022. Vientiane, Lao PDR. The grand opening of the Integrated Resource Recovery Center (IRRC), the first city government -led facility to process organic waste from municipal waste, and handover ceremony of electric waste collection trucks were held on 23 March 2022, marking a great milestone for waste-to resource initiatives in the capital city […]
News • March 24, 2022
Director General’s agenda of hearings on the sidelines of Dakar World Water Forum 2022
Our Director General took part in the World Water Forum. 9th edition and first in Sub-Saharan Africa. On the fringes of his visit to Senegal, he visited the Senegal River Valley, a pilot site for the solarization of pumping stations for climate-smart agriculture, as well as rice mills supported by an energy audit and capacity […]
News • March 24, 2022
Working towards resilient green cities
Country-wide urbanization in Uganda has continued amidst institutional challenges. Previous interventions in the water and sanitation sector have not addressed the underlying issues of poorly managed urbanization processes. Poor urbanisation is linked to low productivity, urban poverty, unemployment, limited capacity to plan and offer basic services as well as a failure to enforce urban standards. […]
News • March 21, 2022
GGGI organizes Waste to Resource Project Study Tour Training in Nairobi for Rwanda Officials
7-11 March 2022, Nairobi , Kenya .The Government of Rwanda vision is to transform the country into a knowledge-based economy, to reach upper middle-income status by 2035 and to become a high-income country by 2050. To align with such aspirations, there is an urgent need to move to more sustainable Solid Waste Management (SMW) which […]
News • March 21, 2022
GGGI, Government of Rwanda and UNEP Proposed area for Car Free Zone in Huye Secondary City
The Global Green Growth Institute’s (GGGI) is committed to supporting government of Rwanda achieve low-carbon development, the Rwanda country program has developed a visualization with Jan Kamensky of the redesign for the proposed car free zone in Huye. Car-free zones have recently been launched in the City of Kigali in the central business district renamed […]