Health and environmental risk and impact assessments of waste reuse business models proposed for Kampala

Type Working Paper
Title Health and environmental risk and impact assessments of waste reuse business models proposed for Kampala
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2015
URL http://www.eawag.ch/fileadmin/Domain1/Abteilungen/sandec/publikationen/EWM/Market_Driven_Approach/he​ria_kampala.pdf
Abstract
For the 4 targeted feasibility cities of the RRR project, the health components around the
selected business models (BM) employed two methodologies, with two different foci: Health
Risk Assessment (HRA) and the Health Impact Assessment (HIA). The HRA aimed at
identifying health risks associated with the input resources (e.g. faecal sludge, waste water)
of proposed BMs and defining what control measures are needed for safeguarding
occupational health and producing outputs (e.g. treated waste water, soil conditioner) that
are compliant with national and international quality requirements. The HIA aimed at
identifying potential health impacts (positive or negative) at community level under the
scenario that the proposed BMs are implemented at scale in Kampala area. The magnitude
of potential impacts was determined by means of a semi-quantitative impact assessment.

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