Air pollution is a major public health challenge for many African urban spaces, and the dangers of exposure and socio-economic costs surpass other known environmental health challenges, including malnutrition and unsafe sanitation, especially for lower socio-economic strata.
Africa has one of the fastest-growing urban populations in the world, and yet there is an inherent lack of institutional capacity to design and implement targeted interventions to tackle air pollution across African cities.
The disproportionate impact of air pollution in African cities is instructive for advancing new and collaborative approaches to tackle urban air pollution.
The workshop brought together participants from communities of practice from over 31 cities across the world, as a launchpad for the CLEAN-Air Network to pioneer Africa-led collaborations and multi-regional partnerships that particularly emphasise the need to strengthen regional networks for sustained interventions.
The CLEAN-Air Network is a broad-based engagement umbrella for the communities of practice for air quality solutions and management across Africa and is envisioned to be:
This report provides a holistic overview of the key insights and outcomes from the CLEAN-Air inaugural workshop held in Kampala from 1st to 3rd April 2023.
The CLEAN-Air workshop was a three-day, largely in-person engagement that brought together over 200 communities of practice from over 31 cities (18 from Africa) from 18 countries across the world. The workshop was meant to be a launchpad that pioneers Africa-led collaborations and multiregional partnerships that particularly emphasise the need to strengthen regional networks for
sustained interventions.
