Post-COVID-19 Sustainable Waste-to-Energy Solutions for Uganda’s Displacement Camps: A Review

Reuben Gad Mugagga; Hope Baxter Chamdimba

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Post-COVID-19 Sustainable Waste-to-Energy Solutions for Uganda’s Displacement Camps: A Review

Reuben Gad Mugagga, Hope Baxter Chamdimba

Published in International Journal of Sustainable and Green Energy (Volume 10, Issue 2)

Received: 31 March 2021 Accepted: 19 April 2021 Published: 29 April 2021

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Abstract

The launching of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 has continually advanced the sustainability paradigm across all corners of the globe. While this has led to the fruition of inherent country policies and plans for Uganda, the country is still trailing below the desired rate of attaining SDGs by 2030. The commencement of this decade of action and the proliferating intensity of the current unprecedented health crisis have thus called for heightened emphasis on inclusive sustainable development for the most disproportionately disadvantaged populations of which refugees form part. The pandemic has forced key stakeholders to shift their focus by re-allocating their scarce resources from disadvantaged communities such as refugee camps, thereby exposing them to severe and unacceptable vulnerability. Coupled to this COVID-19 pandemic is the prevalent energy crisis in displacement camps which shall have far-reaching disruptions. Increased energy access in refugee settlements shall help advance the modest progress made so far. This paper therefore highlights the most promising Waste-to-Energy (WtE) options for displacement camps in the Ugandan context which are evaluated based on a Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) matrix upon which deductions of anaerobic digestion and briquettes respectively serve as the best ranked options respectively for more inclusive social economic development in these settings.

Published in	International Journal of Sustainable and Green Energy (Volume 10, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijrse.20211002.11
Page(s)	32-39
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Inclusive Sustainable Development, Refugees, Renewable Energy, Uganda, Waste to Energy

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Reuben Gad Mugagga

Energy Technology Department, School of Engineering, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya
Hope Baxter Chamdimba

Energy Resources Department, Ndata School of Climate and Earth Sciences, Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST), Thyolo, Malawi

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