Socio-economic assessment and feasibility study on - Öko-Institut eV

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August 2010
<strong>Socio</strong>-<strong>economic</strong> <strong>assessment</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>feasibility</strong> <strong>study</strong>
on sustainable e-waste management in Ghana
Job satisfaction
Collect information on the employees’ satisfaction with their business.
Example: The workers employed in the enterprise consider their jobs as quite prestigious as they
consider them as somehow ‘close to high-tech’. Additionally, the jobs are relatively safe <strong>and</strong> better
paid than other available jobs in this region.
INFORMATION ON THE BUSINESS SECTOR
General sector information
Collect information on the size, structure <strong>and</strong> functioning of the sector
Example: There are numerous mobile phone repair shops in this town. The area around harbour
market is one of the two local centres of this industry. The other centre is located in the western
outskirts of town on the road to Ruwade. Most repair shops are much smaller than this one (only 1
or 2 people), but there are also 5 or 6 enterprises of roughly the same size. Most of the small repair
shops are not registered. This repair shop <strong>and</strong> some of the bigger competitors are the only official
mobile phone repair enterprises in town. In addition, there are around 100 computer repair shops
around harbour market. But these repair shops do not engage in the mobile phone business.