Inception Partners ObjectivesTarget

Audience

Global E-waste Statistics Partnership (GESP) Overview

2017 International Telecommunications Union (ITU)

United Nations University (UNU)/United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)

International Solid Waste Association (ISWA)

To monitor developments of e-waste over time, and to help countries to produce e-waste statistics.

Policy Makers

Industry

Academia

UN Agencies

Media

General Public

Institutions

GESP Core Functions

Collect datafrom countries and build a global e-waste database to track developments over time and to inform policy makers and industry.

Enhance the understanding and interpretation of global e-waste data and communicate the data to the general public and relevant stakeholders.

Build national and regional capacity to help countries produce reliable and comparable e-waste statistics through regional workshops.

Map recycling opportunities from e-waste, pollutants, and e-waste related health effects and identify best practices of global e-waste management.

Inform on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 11.6 and 12.5 by monitoring relevant waste streams and track the ITU Connect 2020 target 3.2.

Global E-waste Database

Creating Awareness

Capacity Building

Identify Opportunities

Monitor E-waste Streams

Core functions of the GESP websitehttps://globalewaste.org/

PUBLICATIONS

ArticlesBooksScientific papers

DATA SHARING

Country sheetsInteractive map

CAPACITY BUILDING

Workshops Training

Launch of the GESP website and interactive map for data visualisation.

Publication of the Global E-waste Monitor 2017. Within hours the report reached an audience of 400+ million and was featured by leading media outlets and international news services, including National Geographic, Washington Post, and New York Times. It was covered in over 80 countries, in 25 languages, and in close to 2’000 news items.

GESP Key Achievements

Regional capacity building workshops in East Africa, Latin America, and the Arabian States: Over 180 people from 40 countries were trained.

Publication of the second edition of “E-waste Statistics: Guidelines for classification, reporting and indicators”.

Ongoing and Upcoming Activities

The Global E-waste Monitor 2020

Report launch in Feb/Mar 2020

The report aims to increase awareness of the growing issue of e-waste by providing a comprehensive overview of global e-waste statistics, enhancing understanding and the interpretation of the data.

Regional E-waste Monitor for: • Latin America• Arab States• Commonwealth of

Independent States (CIS) plus Georgia, Turkmenistan and Ukraine

Regional E-waste Monitoring aims to collect, build and improve e-waste statistics through improving data availability and quality, and increase regional capacities on e-waste statistics for country specific stakeholders.

National E-waste Statistics Training (South-South) for:• Malawi• Namibia

The Global E-waste Statistics Partnership (GESP) can organize workshops to train and build capacities of stakeholders to produce internationally comparable e-waste statistics for their country.