Mombasa (Kenya)

Mombasa, Kenya

WP1 - Vulnerability Assessment:

 In Nairobi, Dakar and Mombasa a common research approach under WP1 focuses on the health impacts of a key everyday, human-induced primary hazard - namely poor solid waste management (SWM), and relevant associated secondary hazards, such as soil, groundwater and air pollution, flooding and fires. 

  • APHRC will draw on its in-depth expertise in areas of public health and epidemiology in resource poor urban informal settlements and draw extensively on existing datasets, including APHRC’s Nairobi Urban Health and Surveillance Systems and Nairobi Cross Sectional Slum Surveys to identify determining factors for the causes of morbidity and mortality amongst target groups comparing communities relative to their exposure to poor solid waste management. 
  • Primary data collection will include: key informant interviews, environmental assessments and GIS assisted mapping onto detailed city plans.

This publication covers a range of disaster risk management (DRM) themes, from community participation in DRM data collection to risk mapping and from urban waste management to hazard accumulation

Author(s): 

Mark Pelling

In African cities, orienting risk management towards a developmental agenda can

confront the root causes of poverty and risk. Transition to an integrated approach has

Kenya has developed various policy frameworks to guide the management of solid waste.

Kenya has developed various policy frameworks to guide the management of solid waste.

Globally, urbanisation is associated with the increased generation of solid waste. City authorities are struggling to provide adequate waste management services,

Community-based organisation and action can contribute greatly to disaster risk reduction, and interlinked to this, to building resilience to the impacts of climate change.

Community-based organisation and action can contribute greatly to disaster risk reduction, and interlinked to this, to building resilience to the impacts of climate change.

An estimated 11.2 billion tons of solid waste are collected worldwide every year.

This report documents household characteristics, solid waste management (SWM) and the associated risks to health in two cities in Kenya.

The inhabitants of African towns and cities face a range of hazards, which can best be described as representing a ‘spectrum of risk’ from events that can cause death, illness or injury, and impove

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