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title: "Electronic Waste Management for Off-grid Solar Solutions in Displacement Settings"
description: "GPA Coordination Unit has undertaken a study with support from NORCAP, to amplify the efforts on e-waste management in displacement settings."
url: "https://www.flyktninghjelpen.no/ressurs/rapporter/e-waste-management-for-off-grid-solar-solutions-in-displacement-settings"
language: "no"
published: "2022-01-13T09:11:37Z"
modified: "2022-01-13T09:11:37Z"
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Rapport

# Electronic Waste Management for Off-grid Solar Solutions in Displacement Settings

Publisert 13. jan. 2022

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GPA Coordination Unit has undertaken a study with support from NORCAP, to amplify the efforts on e-waste management in displacement settings.

As the number of initiatives focusing on improving energy access for displaced and host communities increases, so does the quantity of electronic waste (e-waste) in displacement settings. However, most of the e-waste ends up unused, buried, burned, or informally disposed of on the ground. The lack of proper e-waste management practices in displacement settings poses health and environmental hazards due to leaking batteries or exposure to heavy metals within off-grid solar products.

Triggered by NORCAP’s interest in providing specialist support on the e-waste in displacement settings topic, this study defines e-waste from solar products, identifies several e-waste management tools for humanitarian organisations, highlighting the importance of circular economy principles, lists an overview of keys actors and ongoing projects, and provides a reflection on the findings and recommendations for key actors.

The recommendations from the report can be summarised as below.

- Coordination of e-waste activities within the humanitarian sector;
- Advocacy for an enabling environment through an appropriate regulatory framework;
- Sustainable procurement guidelines for electronic products purchased by humanitarian organisations;
- Establishment of proper repair, recycling, and disposal infrastructure in displacement settings;
- Manufacturers to design repairable products with longer lifetimes;
- Inclusion of e-wase management strategy in energy programming; and
- Capacity building and livelihoods activities for the displacement affected communities.