Regional Workshop on Enhancing Capacities for the Environmentally Sound Management of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment through the Regional Delivery in Africa.

1. The Secretariat of the Basel Convention organized the Regional workshop on enhancing capacities for the environmentally sound management (ESM) of waste electrical and electronic equipment (e-waste) through the regional delivery in Africa, 20-23 October 2015, Lagos, Nigeria. The workshop was co-organized in close cooperation with the Basel Convention Coordinating Centre for the African Region (BCCC-Africa ) in Nigeria and the African Union Commission (AUC). The venue of the workshop was the Golden Tulip Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria.

2. The workshop’s main objectives were to enhance participants’ understanding of the environmentally sound management (ESM) of e-waste using technical guidelines developed under the Basel Convention and the Partnership for Action on Computing Equipment (PACE) as tools, as well as to provide opportunities for information exchange and networking among Parties, experts, and other stakeholders. In addition, the workshop aimed at providing participants the opportunity to deliberate on best applicable models for achieving ESM of used electrical and electronic equipment and life-waste at national and regional levels, as well as on the transboundary movements of e-wastes.