Youth trained to tackle Africa’s waste crisis
The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA Africa), in partnership with the Green Africa Youth Organisation (GAYO), has begun the in-person segment of the 2026 Africa Zero Waste Academy to equip young people with practical skills to become zero waste practitioners and tackle Africa’s growing waste and climate challenges. The initiative, now in its second … The post Youth trained to…
The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA Africa) and the Green Africa Youth Organisation (GAYO) have launched a practical in-person component of the 2026 Africa Zero Waste Academy. The initiative aims to equip young people with skills to become zero waste practitioners and address Africa's environmental and climate challenges.
Following a successful online training program last month, the academy targets about 1,200 climate and waste experts from across Africa, chosen to ensure diversity and representation. GAIA's Ama Asiedu emphasized that the program aims to rethink waste management systems for climate resilience, green jobs, and community health. GAYO's Fathia Selasi Charway-Glover highlighted zero waste as a systems transformation agenda requiring investment in people, knowledge, policies, and infrastructure.
The academy in Accra will feature expert-led sessions and field visits to zero waste projects, building on virtual content on movement-building, waste characterisation, and monitoring frameworks.
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