Supporting E-waste Policy and Regulation in Rwanda - Government Consultation Workshop – 29 and 30 March 2022, Kigali, Rwanda

​The government consultation workshop took place over two days, gathering a core group of relevant national and local stakeholders from the public sector. It provided a space for capacity-building on best practices for e-waste management and was instrumental to gather inputs from government officials on national coordination and cooperation for effective e-waste management. The workshop objectives were as follow:

• Introduce government stakeholders to key elements and principles of e-waste management.
• Gather feedback from participants on the current situation of e-waste management in Rwanda.
• Raise awareness of the public sector on the e-waste situation in Rwanda and discuss the role that the public sector can play in regulating e-waste management in Rwanda.
• Identify all relevant stakeholders for establishing an economically viable EPR system for the EEE sector that is efficient and simple to enforce for government entities.
  
• Identify the building blocks for the construction of an EPR system considering the legal, financial and administrative components of the system comprising both public and private sector stakeholders.​

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