Kisumu City Transformational Action Plan

Kisumu City Action Plan

The Africa Roadmap on Transformative Action to End Open Burning of Waste identifies the key actions to address the systemic deficiencies in waste management and promote waste to resource conversion that could generate multiple social, economic and environmental benefits. In 2025, the African Ministerial Conference on Environment endorsed the Roadmap, calling on all African national governments and local authorities to take concrete actions to implement the Roadmap.

The Africa Regional Roadmap was piloted in Kisumu City, Kenya to create a local transformational action plan and share lessons with the region. Using a multi-stakeholder approach led by Kisumu City, the plan outlined specific actions under eight objectives aligned with the Regional Roadmap’s transformative framework, grouped into three categories.

• No-cost Actions: Actions which can be paid for by using existing County budgets or through spending by other stakeholders from their existing budgets
• Low-cost Actions: Actions which require new and additional budgets, but below the levels that could be funded through major investment bids
• Investment Actions: Actions which will require significant investments through a combination of public funds, grants, low-interest loans and other financial instruments

This is part of the wider Climate and Clean Air Coalition ‘Transformative Action in the Waste Sector’ project, that is aiming to create the enabling conditions to change behaviour, policy and practice to end open burning of waste in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The Asia and Latin America Roadmaps will be published in 2026.