primary management team

This Policy Brief from the KNOW Kampala team at the Urban Action Lab, Makerere University, focuses on briquette-making as an alternative livelihood for the urban poor in Kampala. It examines the integration of the urban poor into the urban economy via briquette-making. Briquette-making consists of practices to manage organic waste and turn it into useful products such as energy briquettes. At the current micro-level of operation, these practices recover less than 5% of the organic waste generated in Kampala. Briquette-making thus has enormous potential for improving waste management at the city level supporting alternative livelihoods. Briquettes also provide a sustainable source of renewable energy for impoverished households. 

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Examples of existing community-based organisations and enterprises producing briquettes, show that briquette-making could replace up to half of all the charcoal used in the city. Partnerships with community-based briquette enterprises can generate multiple economic and social benefits in both the informal and formal waste management sector.