Abstract
In recent years, many African countries are experiencing high economic growth and rapid urbanization, and as a result, the waste problem in these regions is becoming more serious. Japan continuously provides economic assistance to African countries under the TICAD framework and waste is one of the areas within this assistance. As part of this support, the “African Clean City Platform (ACCP)” was established by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan and others. ACCP aims to assist African countries in exchanging information amongst themselves to improve waste management and to promote the matching of improvement needs with donor assistance. Due to lack of information and the need to collect and organize the information, JICA conducted a survey on the current situation of waste management in Africa. As a result, the emerging trends and characteristics of waste problems in African cities have been compiled into the African Waste Management Data Book.
