MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT

The Ministry was first created in Kano in 1999. Presently it has three parastatals. The main function of the Ministry is to provide and sustain a clean and pollution free environment in Kano State.

There are five divisions in the ministry. The divisions are Administration and General Services, Planning and Monitoring, Pollution Control, Sanitation and Ecological and Forestry. The parastatals are Sustainable Kano and Kano Afforestation Project (KNAP) and Refuse Management and Sanitation Board.

SUSTAINABLE KANO PROJECT

Sustainable Kano Project SKP is a Technical Support Unit TSU established to facilitate the replication of the United Nations Sustainable Cities Program in Kano Metropolitan area, which covers Kano Municipal, Dala, Tarauni, Gwale, Fagge, Nassarawa, Gezawa, Tofa, Minjibir, Ungogo Dawakin Tofa, Kumbotso, Kura, Warawa, and Dawakin Kudu. The Cities’ Program is a worldwide technical cooperation activity of the UN working at city level in collaboration with local partners to strengthen their capabilities for environmental planning and management.

A Managing Director/Project Manager heads the unit with three support sub-units - Engineering, Urban Planning and Secretariat.Its function includes identification and mobilization of stakeholders, preparing environmental profile for Kano Metropolitan Area, facilitating the formulation of priority strategies by stakeholders and providing technical assistant in designing and implementing demonstration projects.Sustainable Kano project is a veritable mechanism for ensuring the effectiveness and sustainability of program and projects aimed at poverty alleviation, secured tenure, good urban governance, water supply and solid waste management for cities.

KANO AFFORESTATION PROJECT

The objectives of Kano State Afforestation Project KNAP are to arrest the spread of desertification in Kano, enhance productivity of the agricultural land, stimulating the production and increased supplies of fuel wood, pools, fodder and other minor forestry products and effective executing of afforestation activities in terms of conventional and social forestry programs.

The functions of KNAP are production and supply of desired tree seedlings to cater for all project activities, establishment and maintenance of shelterbelts to check the spread of desertification, engaging in social forestry activities to involve the populace in afforeststion efforts. Others are exploring other sources and uses of forest products and services for the need of the populace, training of farmers in afforestation management activities and conducting adaptive research in the fields of forestry.