GAVI Alliance support for health-care waste management
Financial support is being provided by the GAVI Alliance for the period 2006-7 for a health-care waste management Project.
Goal
By the end of 2007, 50% of countries receiving support from the GAVI Alliance (i.e. 36 countries) will have adopted a national policy on health-care waste management and will have finalized a national strategy and plan for implementation of the policy.
Countries involved in the Project
African Region
Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Americas Region
Bolivia, Honduras, Nicaragua
Eastern Mediterranean Region
Pakistan, Sudan, Yemen
European Region
Kyrgyzstan, Moldova (to be replaced by either Georgia or Uzbekistan), Tajikistan, Ukraine
South-East Asia Region
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal
Western Pacific Region
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mongolia, Solomon Islands
Activities
Activities will be undertaken in each country in support of the Project goal as follows:
- an initial meeting involving all stakeholders at national level. Participants will include the respective ministries of health and environment, WHO, UNICEF, the Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health, John Snow, Inc. and civil society;
- a national assessment of the existing situation;
- a report of the analysis of the existing situation and recommendations;
- workshops at national level to develop a national strategy and plan and to address issues relating to regulatory requirements, financing and communication issues; and
- a final meeting involving all partners for approval of a national strategy and plan and planning for the implementation of the plan.
Consideration of resource mobilization for the implementation of activities in national action plans will be undertaken throughout the Project. One concept currently being explored is that budget lines for injection equipment include the cost of disposing of and managing used injection equipment.
WHO and partners will provide support throughout the Project.