Building a Safer and Greener Africa’s Future: African Strategy and Action Plan for Environmentally Sound Management of Chemicals and Wastes 2025 - 2035

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dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.organizationAfrica Office
dc.coverage.spatialAfrica
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-14T08:03:43Z
dc.date.available2025-07-14T08:03:43Z
dc.date.issued2025-06
dc.date.submitted2025-07-14
dc.descriptionThe African Strategy for the Environmentally Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste (2025–2035) presents a coordinated continental response to the challenges of rapidly growing hazardous chemical and waste streams driven by industrialization, urbanization and global market flows that threaten human health and ecosystem integrity. Developed under the leadership of the African Union Commission, in collaboration with UNEP, AMCEN, the strategy unites national priorities, regional capabilities, and international commitments under one visionary framework. Rising industrialisation, population growth, increasing complexity of waste generated, imports of hazardous materials and lack of institutional and infrastructural capacity have made chemical and waste management a critical issue for African countries. Besides addressing the major pollution challenges and the associated health impacts, the strategy for the Environmental Sound Management of chemicals and waste could lead to multiple economic and social benefits through job creation and livelihood provision. The purpose of the Pan-African Strategy is to provide a unified continental framework for addressing the life cycle of chemicals and waste, from production and use to disposal and recovery.en
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dc.identifier.otherAMCEN/20/INF/4
dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/48196
dc.languageEnglish
dc.languageFrench
dc.page.number22 p.
dc.subjectchemical
dc.subjectwaste
dc.subject.sdgSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-Being
dc.subject.themechemistry
dc.subject.themechemical pollution
dc.titleBuilding a Safer and Greener Africa’s Future: African Strategy and Action Plan for Environmentally Sound Management of Chemicals and Wastes 2025 - 2035en
dc.typeCommunication or other resource
wd.identifier.mettingsessionAfrican Ministerial Conference on the Environment, Twentieth Ordinary Session Nairobi, Kenya 14 -18 July 2025

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