Name, event, date

1
Air Quality Monitoring Introduction, current
status, next steps Rob de Jong United Nations
Environment Programme/ Partnership for Clean
Fuels and Vehicles

• Name, event, date

2

• What do we actually know about
• the air quality in SS Africa?

3
Urbanisation per Region
4
Vehicle Growth Uganda Example
186,000
34,000
26,000
1980
1990
1999
5

• Studies done
• Lead
• Ghana (blood lead levels in school children and
  refinery employees)
• Kenya (lead levels in and around Nairobi)
• Egypt (estimated impact of lead)
• Other air pollutants? Other organisations?

6

• Urban air quality data needs assessment what
  information do we need?
• Target group
• Detail
• Use
• Message
• Format
• Substance
• Information for decision making

7

• Ongoing initiatives UNEP/ PCFV
• USEPA/ UNEP Accra and Dar es Salaam
• UNEP/UN-HabitatUrban Air Quality Toolkit
• UNEP/ USEPA Lead blood levels test kit

8

• Options
• Monitoring
• Measuring/ Sampling (direct and indirect)
• Modeling/ predicting (need for info input!)
• Again purpose?

9

• Initiatives of other CAI Partners?
• Joint strategy/ focus?
• But keep use/ purpose in mind