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Basel Conventions Regional
Center
In Tehran
BUSINESS PLAN
2012 - 2013
March 2012
Tehran, Iran
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TABLEOFCONTENTS
Executive Summary of the Business Plan (2012-2013)….......................4
I. Information for the Center………….........................................6
A. Vision…………………………………………………...6
B. Background.……………………………………….........5
C. Governance.…………………………………………….7
D. Contact information.…………………………………....8
II. The Center and the Basel Convention………………………....9
A. Performance of the core functions……………………...9
B. Opportunities for improvement………………………....9
C. Cooperation with the Rotterdam and
Stockholm Conventions……………………………......9
D. Joint activities…………………………………............10
E. Partnership activities…………………………….…….11
III. Regional needs Assessments ………………………………...12
IV. Proposed activities…………………………...........................14
A. Maintenance of the Center and staff training
activities…………………………………………….....14
B. Activities for the implementation of the Strategic
Framework and other COP-10 decisions .……………15
a. Vision….………………………………………..15
b. Guiding principles……….……………………...16
c. Strategic goals and objectives….……………….16
C. Synergies related activities………………....................17
D. Other capacity building activities………………..........18
V. Financial information
A. Financial information about the Center ………...........19
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B. Main partner institutions………...................................20
C. Proposed budget for activities (2012-2013)..................21
Annex
I- List of focal points and endorsements..........................................23
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ExecutiveSummaryoftheBusiness
Plan
This Business Plan is provided for the period 2012-2013 in order to
extend the implementation of Basel Convention, improve the
effectiveness of the Convention and identification of needs in South and
West Asia.
Basel Convention Regional Center in Tehran is established according to
the Decision VII/10 of the Seventh Meeting of the Conference of the
Parties (COP 7) to the Basel Convention in October 2004.
The role of the BCRC in Iran is to assist member states and non-member
states through capacity building for the environmentally sound
management of hazardous waste and other wastes and the minimization
of their generation to achieve the fulfillment of the objectives of the
convention. The core functions of the center are including training of the
staff in BCRC in Tehran and the representatives from member states and
non-member states, technology transfer to the region, awareness raising,
conducting workshops, seminars and associated projects and cooperating
with UN and its bodies and other relevant intergovernmental and NGO’s
(Non-Governmental Organizations).
According to the framework agreement between the Secretariat of Basel
Convention and the Government of Islamic Republic of Iran, the Basel
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Convention Regional Center in Tehran is established at the Department of
Environment, Islamic Republic of Iran.
Due to strengthen the implementation of wastes management in the
region, we organized regional and national training courses and meetings
at least two times a year.
The budget for 2012-2013 consists of USD 872000 allocated to BCRC-
Tehran activities.
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InformationfortheCenter
A. Vision
BCRC-Tehran as a center of transferring updated technologies to
countries in south and west Asia to protect and improve the human
health and environment against the adverse effects of hazardous
wastes and environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes
and their disposal.
B. Background
Basel Convention Regional Center in Tehran is established according
to the Decision VII/10 of the Seventh Meeting of the Conference of
the Parties (COP 7) to the Basel Convention in October 2004.
According to the framework agreement between the Secretariat of
Basel Convention and the Government of Islamic Republic of Iran, the
Basel Convention Regional Center in Tehran is established at the
Department of Environment, Islamic Republic of Iran also financed by
the I.R. of Iran government.
The BCRC in Tehran serves the following 5 member states:
1. Republic of Bangladesh
2. Republic of Maldives
3. Government of Nepal
4. Islamic Republic of Pakistan
5. Islamic Republic of Iran
Non-member states:
1. Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
2. Islamic Republic of Iraq
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The activities which were undertaken by the BCRC-Tehran including:
� Second Meeting of Steering Committee, Iran, Tehran, 26-27
August 2009
� National Workshop on Application of Geo-synthetics in
Landfills Engineering, Tehran, Iran, 24 November 2008
� Workshop on Introduction of E-wastes Systems, Iran, Tehran, 2
February 2008
� First Exhibition, Conference and Workshop on High-Tech
Innovation of Recycling Industries, Iran, Tehran, 8th
– 11th
December 2009
� Workshop on Introduction of Basel Convention, Iran, Bandar
Abbas, 26 May 2010
� The Exhibition and Conference on Tire & Rubber Recycling
and Environment, Iran, Tehran, 29th
and 30th
June
� The Workshop on PCB Management and the contaminated
materials and equipment, Iran, Tehran, 9-10th
November 2010
� Regional workshop on Landfill Management, Iran, Tehran, 2-3
October 2011
� Regional workshop on Co-processing of HW and wastes under
Basel and Stockholm Conventions in Cement Kilns, Iran,
Tehran, 4-5 October 2011
� Regional workshop on ESM of E-waste, Iran, Tehran, 8-10
January 2012
� The Third meeting of Steering Committee, Iran, Tehran, 11
January 2012
C. Governance
The Framework Agreement signed by the Secretariat of Basel
Convention and the Islamic Republic of Iran, the former Head of
Department of Environment in 2008.
The BCRC-Tehran has opened the bank account since 2010 in the
National Bank of Iran.
It is worth mentioning that the National Legal status of the Center for
the operation of the center is providing.
Since 2008 to 2011, Dr. Soroush Modabberi was the director of the
center while on October 2011, Dr. Alireza Shiri Garakani, has been
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appointed by the Department of Environment in Iran and has been
accepted by the SBC on January 2012.
The first meeting of Steering Committee was held in 2008. So far 2
meetings of Steering Committee have been hosted by the Center in
2009 and 2011.
D. Contact information
Basel Convention Regional Center in Tehran
Dr. Alireza Shiri-Garakani (Director)
BCRC-Tehran, Department of Environment, Pardisan Ecopark, West
Hakim Highway, Tehran, Iran
Tel & Fax: +98 21 88 23 31 44
E-mail: ashiri@bcrc.ir
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TheCenterandtheBasel
Convention
A. Performance of the core function
BCRC-Tehran for training and technology transfer in South and West
Asia assists member states and non-member states through capacity-
building for environmentally sound management, to achieve the
fulfillment of the objectives of the Convention.
Center coordinates by member states to finalize the Plans for
providing the biennium Business Plan according to the priorities and
needs assessment.
The core functions of the Centre are Training, Technology transfer,
Information, Consulting and Awareness-raising.
B. Opportunities for improvement
BCRC-Tehran in spite of some activities to serve the Basel
Convention in South and West Asia encounters some obstacles
including financial limitation, lack of assistance for resource
mobilization for example project proposal writing, insufficient training
in new technologies, lack of access to donors, lack of partners
supports are highlighted obstacles which the center has faced.
C. Cooperation with the Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions
BCRC-Tehran was endorsed to serve the Stockholm Convention to
South and West Asia in COP-5 of the Stockholm Convention in 2011.
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BCRC-Tehran has cooperated in the implementation of Basel,
Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions with Department of
Environment. These activities include participation in regional
workshops coordinated by other organizations, national meetings such
as National Commission on Chemical Safety, holding the regional
workshops including ESM of e-wastes, Co-processing of wastes in
Cement Kilns, ESM of PCBs and contaminated equipment and
Inventory of HW with special references to POPs.
In this regard BCRC-Tehran will hold the national regional workshops
on Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Introduction for Custom Officers
in the region, Provincial Departments of Environment and define
National and Regional Projects on PCBs, E-wastes, Mercury and
Ships.
D. Joint activities
BCRC in Tehran has been cooperating with Department of
Environment of I.R. of Iran and has developed by Secretariat of Basel
and Stockholm Conventions. In the regional workshops organized by
Ramsar Convention Regional Center participated for transferring
information related to Basel and Stockholm Conventions. Also Center
invited from UNIDO for participating and delivering speeches in the
training and awareness raising workshops. Furthermore, BCRC in
Tehran supports from BCRC-China as the Coordinating Center in
order to achieve the fulfillments of the Basel, Rotterdam and
Stockholm Conventions objectives in the Pacific Asia.
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E. Public-private partnership activities (Optional)
In addition to this matter that BCRC is attendance the activities
organized by private sectors related to ESM of Hazardous Wastes,
Persistent Organic Pollutants and Pesticides and Industrial Chemicals,
privet sectors supports Center in holding the national and regional
workshops, conferences and exhibitions jointly. Also private sectors
count on the BCRC as the consultant center for ESM of wastes; survey
for internationally training professionals illustrates the point. It is
worth to mention that Center under the MOU cooperate with private
sectors which involve to Waste Management.
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RegionalNeedsAssessment
Despite the many advances in sciences also the environmental technology
transfer has been occurred in the world, especially among developing
countries, the surveys illustrate the positive impact of these developments
in addition to some problems that developing countries are facing them
and are attempting to eliminate them.
Regional needs based on the priorities
Title
Importance
1 2 3 4 5 Legislation and regulations requirements and
strategic planning on Waste Management √
Economical requirement on Waste
Management √
Cultural and training requirements for
efficient Public-Private Partnership on Waste
Management
√
Indicator Analysis and standardization
(national and international standards) √
Identification and categorization of Wastes √ Physical-Chemical Analysis of waste √ Inventory of Hazardous and other waste √ Quantification of wastes √ Collection and Transportation mechanisms
and introduce related Software according to
the countries’ needs
√
Introduction on 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse
&Recycle) √
Introduction on Disposal methods √ Landfill √ Composting √ Incinerators √ Digesters √ Environmentally Sound Management of
Electrical and Electronic Waste(E-waste) √
Co-processing of wastes regulated by the
Basel and Stockholm Conventions in Cement
Kilns
√
Environmentally Sound Management of Used
Lead Acid Batteries (ULAB) √
Introducing the wastes under Basel,
Stockholm and Rotterdam Conventions and
the knowledge of the alternatives
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The levels of importance are:
1 2 3 4 5
Levels of
Importance
Not
Practical
Not very
important
Quite
Important
Very
Important
Extremely
Important
Other needs listed below
� Poor training and education communities among countries in the
region
� Poor regional cooperation in chemicals and hazardous wastes
management
� Lack of financial support arrangement
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ProposedActivities
A. Maintenance of the Center and staff training activities
Expansion the Center activities
Consideration to make the opportunities to strengthen the projects and
training programs, center provides strategic plans through:
� Meetings and Communication with governmental and
nongovernmental organizations
� Communication with donors
� Steering committees with participation of representatives from
member states, non-member states and observes from related
organization
� Increasing the interaction with other regional centers and
Secretariats
� Development of facilities and equipment
� Translation, publication and distribution of Basel Convention
technical guidelines
Expected result:
� Increasing the projects and regional training workshops
Participation in regional and international events
In order to highlight the Center role in the region and among
international communities, BCRC-Tehran participates in the
Conferences of the Parties, meetings and workshops organized by
parties, regional centers and Basel Convention and other Secretariats.
Specific tasks:
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� Identification interests and needs of participants
� Familiarity with technologies and beneficial to approach a new
knowledge
� Communicate with sources and scientific references
Expected results:
� Approaching to educational standards
Training Workshops
� Identification and priority assessments of needs of the countries
in the region
� Issue of the certificates validated by Ministry of Science and
Technology
� Setting the national and regional workshops in the center and
member states according to the proposal of countries in the
region
Expected result:
� Increasing the number of trained communicators
B. Activities for the implementation of the Strategic Framework and
other COP-10 decisions
Vision
The aim of the strategic framework is to protect human health and the
environment by controlling transboundary movements of HW and
other wastes by ensuring and strengthening the environmentally sound
management of wastes such as electrical and electronic wastes, Pops
wastes and other hazardous substances wastes, used oil, ULAB,
dismantling of ships and Mercury as well as on the implementation of
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Basel Convention and enforcement authorities at regional and national
levels.
Guiding principles
Guiding principles are based on prevention, minimization, reuse,
recycling, other recovery including energy recovery and final disposal
of HW and other wastes and chemicals. The waste management
policies includes recognition of resources wastes, life-cycle approach,
partnerships, cooperation and synergies, integrated waste
management, respect legislation governing waste management as well
as each party’s national legislation and regulations.
Strategic goals and objectives
Goal 1: Strengthening the environmentally Sound Management of
Hazardous Wastes and other Wastes
Objective 1.1: Development of ESM of HW and other wastes and
chemicals through regional and national workshops, seminars to
transfer update technologies to the countries in the region.
Objective 1.2: Promoting capacity-building in the region including
needs assessments and search to find the best solutions.
Goal 2: To enhance the implementation of the environmentally
sound management of HW and other wastes
Objective 2.1: To prepare technical guidelines on management of
hazardous wastes and other wastes.
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Objective 2.2: To assign member states to ESM of waste based on
their abilities in the region.
Objective 2.3: Search to find the solution, generate, provide,
collect, transmit and use reliable information and data regarding
import, export, generation and management of the wastes covered
three conventions.
Objective 2.4: To encourage the parties to improve the
effectiveness of the Basel Convention through the Indonesian-
Swiss country-led initiative.
Goal 3: Effective cooperation among the countries in the region
(South and West Asia)
Objective 3.1: To reach a satisfied communication among member
states and non-member states, centers and parties in Asia.
Objective 3.2: To perform the jointly projects and workshops in
the region through some activities such support as Coordinating
Center in Pacific Asia.
C. Synergies activities
� Regional workshop on Environmentally sound management of
ships
Objective: to promote safe management and use of hazardous
substances
and chemicals cover by Basel, Rotterdam and Hong Kong
Conventions in dismantling ships
Countries: Parties in the region
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� Strengthening the capacity of recycling of management of E-
wastes in the region
Objective: Environmentally sound management of Electrical and
Electronic wastes, distribution of some chemicals during these
wastes management and extracting valuable substances
Countries: Parties in the region
� Strengthening the capacity of PCBs Management
Objective: Environmentally sound management of PCBs
Countries: Parties in the region
D. Other capacity building activities
� Regional training workshop on the ESM of Mercury
Objective: Reducing the risk resulting from the widespread use of
mercury
Countries: Parties in the region
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FinancialInformation
� Financial information about the Center
Table I: Expenditures related to the work of the center (2012-
2013)
(All prices are in US Dollars.)
Department of
Environment SBC Total
Director 18000 18000
Project Director 18000 18000
Secretary 9600 9600
Assistant 9600 9600
Building 15000 15000
Communication 5000 5000
Maintenance 5000 5000
Others 5000 5000
Publications 5000 5000
Traveling 3000 10000 13000
Sub total 93200 10000
Total 103200
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� Main partner institutions
Financial Resources:
A. Current main sources of funding:
o Department of Environment, I.R. of Iran
B. Potential future sources of funding:
o UNEP/SBC
o UNIDO
o Parties in the region
o JICA
o GEF
o ADB
o Others
External Resources:
A. Current key partners and stakeholders:
o Department of Environment, I.R. of Iran
o Private partners
B. Key partners and stakeholder in the future:
o Donors
o Governmental organizations
o Academies
o Parties in the region
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� Proposed budget for activities (2012-2013)
(All prices are in US Dollars.)
BCRC-Tehran Estimated Income and Expenditure for 2012/2013
Incomes (Estimated) 2012 2013 Total
Allocations from host government (DoE
I.R. of Iran)
100000 150000 250000
From Basel Convention (Technical
Cooperation Trust Fund)
50000 50000 100000
From other MEAs 100000 200000 300000
From donors 10000 15000 25000
Private partners 75000 100000 175000
Subtotal 335000 515000 900000
Total Incomes 335000 515000 900000
Expenditure (Estimated)
Core
Personnel 20000 24000 44000
Subcontracts 5000 7500 12500
Travel and Subsistence 15000 25000 40000
Training/Learning 5000 7500 12500
Equipment, supplies and premises 2500 5000 7500
General operating expenses (telephone,
internet, electricity etc.)
1200 1700 2900
Subtotal 48700 70700 119400
Workshops and Training Activities
Environmentally Sound Management of
Ships
25000
Management of Mercury 25000
Environmentally Sound Management
ofULAB
25000
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National Workshop (Introduction of
Conventions)
15000
Management of Used Oil 35000
Management of E-waste (II) 35000
Management of PCBs (II) 35000
National Workshop 17000
Subtotal 90000 122000 212000
Projects
Project I (Management of E-waste) 100000
Project II ( Management of PCBs) 100000
Project III 100000
Project IV 120000
Project V 120000
Project VI 120000
Subtotal 300000 360000 660000
Total Expenditure 390000 482000 872000
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ANNEX
National Focal Points for the Basel Convention in
Member states and non-member states of BCRC in Tehran for South
and West Asia
REPUBLIC of BANGLADESH (to be completed)
Name :
Designation :
Department :
Address :
Tel :
Fax :
E-mail :
Website :
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
Name : Dr. Alimohammad Shaeri
Designation : Deputy Head of Department of Environment and Deputy of
Human Environment of Islamic Republic of Iran
Department : Department of Environment
Address : Pardisan Eco-park West Hakim Highway, Tehran, Iran
Tel : (+98-21) 88 23 30 89
Fax : (+98-21) 88 23 30 45-88 23 30 88
E-mail : shaeri@doe.ir
Website : www.irandoe.ir
REPUBLIC OF MALDIVES (to be approved)
Name : Mr. Abdullahi Majeed
Designation : Deputy Minister
Department : Ministry of Environment, energy and water
Address : Male, Republic of Maldives
Tel : (+960) 3324861
Fax : (+960) 3322286
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E-mail : abdullahi.majeed@environment.gov.mv
Website : www.environment.gov.mv
ISLAMIC DEMOCRATIC OF PAKISTAN
Name : Mr. Muhammad Ashraf
Designation : Joint Secretary (International Cooperation)
Department : Ministry of National Disaster Management
Government of Pakistan
Address : LG & RD Complex, Fourth Floor, Sector G-5/2, Islamabad.
Tel : (+92-51) 9245523
Fax : (+92-51) 9245524
E-mail : jsicenv@gmail.com
Website : www.moenv.gov.pk
KINGDOM OF NEPAL
Name : Meena Khanal
Designation : Joint Secretary
Department : Ministry of Environment
Address : Singha Darbar, Kathmandu, Nepal
Tel : (+977-1)
Fax : (+977-1) 4211954
E-mail : meenakhanal@hotmail.com
Website : www.moenv.gov.np
REPUBLIC OF IRAQ
Name : LUAY SADEQ ALMUKHTAR
Designation : Director Department
Department : MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT / International
Environmental Relations Department
Address : BAGHDAD / AL-WAZIRAA MAGRAB ST / P.O .BOX
10062
Tel : 009647901467889
Fax : ____
E-mail : luay_al_mokhtar@yahoo.com
Website : ____
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ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF AFGHANISTAN
Name: Mr. Mohd Yasin Noori
Designation: MEAs Officer
Department: International Relations andEnvironmental
Conventions
Address: NEPA HQ, Main Baraki Rd, Behind Kardan University,
Kabul - Afghanistan
E-mail: Yasin Noori <yaseen.noori@yahoo.com>