UGoS: Factsheet

  1. Project name: "A user-focused knowledge base for goal-oriented municipal solid waste management in Uganda" (UGoS)
  2. Project location: Busia, Eastern Uganda
  3. Project partners:
    • Busia Municipal Council (BMC)
    • Youth Environment Service (YES) (NGO)
    • Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Makerere University (MU)
    • Institute for Water Quality, Resource, and Waste Management, Vienna Universtiy of Technology (TUW)
  4. Project duration: September 2010 - November 2011
  5. Funding:
    • Commission for Development Studies at the OEAD (http://kef-online.at/)
    • International Solid Waste Association (http://www.iswa.org/)
    • Altstoff Recycling Austria (http://www.ara.at/)
  6. Contacts:
    • Amosiah Ongatai, Youth Environment Service
      • Email: yes_ao@yahoo.com
      • Phone: +256 70 2312702
    • Jeninah Karungi, Ph.D., Makerere University
      • Email: jkarungi@agric.mak.ac.ug
      • Internet: http://agric.mak.ac.ug/index.php?mod=article&cat=cropstaff&article=58
      • Phone: +256 414 533580 / +256 71 2804179
    • Jakob Lederer, Vienna University of Technology 
      • Email: j.lederer@iwa.tuwien.ac.at
      • Internet: http://www.iwa.tuwien.ac.at/
      • Phone: +43 1 58801 22653