Reducing UPOPs and Mercury Releases from the Health Sector in Africa (Ghana, Madagascar, Tanzania and Zambia)

Independent terminal evaluation for the GEF financed regional Africa HCWM project (Ghana, Madagascar, Tanzania and Zambia).

Project’s technical lessons learnt report.

Independent evaluation of project’s midterm progress.

Project document of the GEF financed project.

A zip folder containing SOP templates for HCWM including pharmaceutical waste, mercury waste, long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) and formaldehyde spillages.

Specifications for personal protective equipment (PPE), consumables, logistic, transport and storage equipment as well as waste treatment equipment for health care waste management. Also considered as best practices for green, sustainable procurement on healthcare waste management, implemented by UNDP GEF regional Africa project.

Excel file – List of estimated costs and equipment – including personal protective equipment (PPE), consumables, logistic, transport and storage equipment as well as waste treatment equipment – needed to set up onsite waste treatment solutions in healthcare facilities ranging in size, up to 300 beds hospital.

Technical specifications, for non-mercury containing devices (mercury alternatives) including sphygmomanometers, cuffs, stethoscopes, batteries and digital thermometers; as an example of sustainable, green procurement practices, produced and implemented by UNDP GEF regional Africa project.

Summary of support on healthcare waste management in Ghana during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. This included policy briefs shared with the National COVID-19 team, monitoring and enforcement for infection prevention controls and support for local sanitizer producers.

Project’s case study in Ghana related to ZoomPak Central Treatment Facility in Accra

The goals of this Project Exit Strategy are to ensure the sustainability of impacts after finalization of the project.

Report outlines autoclave maintenance trainings carried out online and remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Monitoring report on biogas production resulting from the bio-digester of pathological waste in Dar es Salaam.

The curriculum covers HCWM practices including the handling of mercury waste, financing and budgeting, gender mainstreaming, tools for rapid assessment of HCWM capacity, and International Conventions and National HCWM laws.

The goal of this document to identify and analyze the major areas which indicates sustainability on facility level for Zambia at the final stage of the UNDP/WHO/HCWH regional Africa project.

The social and environmental injustice analysis, including gender dimensions, carried out for the UNDP GEF project in Ghana, illuminates gender equality and human rights issues in the HCWM sector.

Guidance and examples to replicate and scale up ideas demonstrated by the GEF regional Africa project. 1.Replication of capacity building on HCWM; 2.Replication of the set-up of on-site waste treatment systems; 3.Replication of the set-up centralized waste treatment facilities; 4.Replication of Mercury Phasing out in health facilities; 5.Scaling up of sustainable procurement; 6.Replication of the use of biodigester in health facilities.

Project factsheet on best practices of mercury reduction strategies for the healthcare sector in Africa.

Factsheet on best practices of non-incineration technologies within GEF financed UNDP/WHO/HCWH project in Ghana, Madagascar, Tanzania and Zambia.

National Health Care Waste Management Plan prepared by Ministry of Health, Zambia.

This guideline seeks to ensure that Health Care Waste (HCW) is managed effectively in compliance with existing international conventions that Ghana is a signatory to, national laws and regulations, and others to be passed in future. Recommendations for better management of HCW in the nation’s health care facilities have been presented in this document. Also, standard operating procedures (SOPs) have been developed to provide guidance to various levels of the health facilities.

National HCWM Policy document endorsed by Ministry of Health, Ghana

GUIDE TECHNIQUE DE GESTION DES DÉCHETS MEDICAUX.

National Policy and Guidelines for Health Care Waste Management in Tanzania.