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Tamale, Ghana – The Electronic Waste Management in Ghana (E-MAGIN) Project consortium has held Regional Workshops in the Brong-Ahafo and Northern Regions of Ghana.
The workshops were aimed at providing information to e-waste/scrap dealers, Ghana Electronics Servicing Technicians Association (GESTA) on the E-MAGIN Project and also sensitize them on issues on formalization, the legal framework, the Collection and Buyback Centres.
The programme was attended by e-waste collectors, transporters, dismantlers, repairers, waste management companies, policymakers, researchers and local authority.
Opening the different sessions in Sunyani on the 21st June, 2018 and Tamale on 25th June, 2018, the Brong Ahafo and Northern Regional Directors of the Environmental Protection Agency, Dr. Francis Nyagbenu and Mr. Abu Iddrisu in their separate welcome addresses, indicated the commitment of the EPA in working with the informal sector and the relevant stakeholders in managing e-waste in Ghana. They thanked the European Union for funding the Project.
E-MAGIN is a forty-eight-month project which is funded by the European Union and led by the University of Cape Coast, (Cape Coast, Ghana).
Other members in the consortium are Ghana National Cleaner Production Centre (GNCPC, Ghana), Adelphi (Germany) and City Waste Recycling Limited (Ghana).
The main objective of the project is to improve management of e-waste in Ghana towards Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP).
Specifically, the E-MAGIN Project is to contribute to the effective implementation of the Hazardous and Electronic Waste Control and Management Act, 2016 (Act 917) through the formalization of informal Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs), establishment of a collection mechanism for e-waste, build capacity of the MSMEs to adopt best dismantling practices, providing informative support and creating awareness among the key target groups.
Among the facilitators in the Sunyani and Tamale workshops included Prof. Daniel Agyapong, a Senior Project Manager and a Lecturer of the University of Cape Coast School of Business; Mr. Lambert Faabeluon, Director (Standards, Compliance & Enforcement) of the Environmental Protection Agency and Ghana National Cleaner Production Centre, and Dr. Sampson Atiemo, an E-Waste Consultant.
Other members of the project team present were Mrs. Letitia Abra-Kom Nyaaba, (Senior Project Manager), Mr. Daniel Ofori, Mr. Bertrand Yosangfo and Mr. Phanuel Wunu (Junior Project Managers) of the E-MAGIN Project.
By Savannahnewsonline.com/Bertrand Yosangfo
