AirQo Project of Makerere University in partnership with the Air Quality Monitoring Research Group (AQMRG) from the University of Lagos and UrbanBetter Lab Innovation Africa, University of Pretoria, have launched a city-focused consortium to scale up participatory and evidenced-based approach to tackling air pollution across African cities.

This pioneering multi-region partnership is an Africa-led collaboration and emphasizes the need to strengthen regional networks for sustained collaborations and will enable the partners to co-develop solutions for improving capacity for air quality monitoring and management across five (5) countries in Eastern, Central, and Western Africa including Uganda, Burundi, Cameroon, Ghana and Nigeria.