The first collection system and incineration of medical waste from hospitals in Khartoum, Sudan Note: This project has been cancelled, because of internal problems.The applicant in this project proposal is the Dutch registered company Kaiman Enterprises B.V.. The local partner is Gentle Care, a facility management company, the third partner is the Finish registered company Ina Group established in 1989.The aim of the project partners is to establish a commercially operating service provider to collect and incinerate medical waste coming from public and private hospitals in the state of Khartoum.In Sudan, there are currently no facilities/services available to properly collect and dispose medical waste, like medical consumables, medicines, needles etc. In the western world medical waste will either be autoclaved (sterilised) and then disposed, or preferably incinerated. In Sudan, the hospitals do not separate the medical waste, the medical waste is mixed with the regular waste coming from the hospitals. It is disposed in containers or in regular dirt backs and collected by regular garbage collectors. The current situation generates serious health risks, for the garbage collectors, the hospital staff and patients of the hospitals and people working (or sometimes living) on the garbage dumps.Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)The environmental standards of the incinerators will be according EU law. Furthermore, this project addresses a solution for a problem which on the moment is not taken care off. The medical waste is scattered all over the premises of the hospitals and garbage dumps.The project will be BSCI certified, which stands for Business Social Compliance Initiative. This certification ensures that labour conditions in terms of salary, labour unions, health and safety, secondary benefits etc are all taken care off.Impact•	Employment and working conditionsAll the employees will have decent salaries and secondary benefits. For all the employees the health insurance is fully covered due to the nature of the work.•	Innovation / Transfer of knowledgeAt the moment there are no incinerators operational within Sudan. Furthermore, there are no specialised companies, which have the expertise and proper equipment to deal with medical waste. The only working (old technology) incinerator has been put out of order because of environmental (toxic fumes) reasons.•	Chain effectsThe impact on local suppliers is relatively limited. The main local purchase will be diesel oil.For the hospitals, but also fort the city of Khartoum, this project can be considered as a major improvement for the disposal of medical waste.•	Impact on the sectorPublic and private hospitals will for the first time have the opportunity to properly dispose the medical waste.•	EnvironmentMedical waste can now properly be disposed and does not need to be dumped under very unhygienic and unsafe circumstances.•	Position of womenDue to the nature of the project not many female employees will be hired. However, the project manager will be female, which is rather unusual for a predominantly Islamic country. To collect and incinerate medical waste from around 80 public and private hospitals within the state of Khartoum.A collection scheme for medical waste will be established and three incinerators will be installed in various locations in Khartoum, next to