Sub-Regional Workshop for GEF Focal Points in Eastern and Southern AfricaNairobi, Kenya, 19-20 May 2009

Review of POPs activities in the Region

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Overview of programs related to POPs

Strategic program 1 - strengthening Capacity for NIP Development and Implementation (resources: ~ 40%)

Outcome: Countries have capacity to implement measures to meet obligations under the SC – thus improving their general capacity to achieve the sound management of chemicals

Strategic program 2 - Partnering in Investments for NIP Implementation (resources: ~ 45%)

Outcome: Sustainably reduced production, use, and release of POPs reduced environmental and health risks from POPs. e.g. phase-out and disposal of PCBs / non-POPs alternative products and practices / destruction of pesticide wastes

Strategic program 3 - Partnering for Demonstration of Feasible, Innovative Technologies and Best Practices for POPs Reduction and Substitution (Resources: ~ 15%)

Outcome: Effective alternative products, practices or techniques that avoid POPs production/use/release demonstrated / in particular DDT. e.g. identification of alternative products or practices to DDT or to POPs termiticides / demonstration of destruction technologies / demonstration of BAT/ targeted research

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GEF Investments

§ 2001-2006 (GEF-3) $218M (co-financing $153M)§ GEF-4 allocation $300M§ As of October 2008, cumulative allocation since adoption of the SC of

$360M; leveraging $440M co-financing

GEF investments by issues :

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GEF Investments in East and Southern Africa

§ 2001-2009 $83.7M (co-financing $103.8M)

Number of projects

(enabling activities)

Number of projects (FSP

and MSP)

Project completion 11 2

Project under implementation

  5

Agency approved 3 4

CEO Approved 1 3

Council Approved 1 6

CEO PIF Clearance 1 1

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Examples of projects

§ AFLDC:Capacity Strengthening and Technical Assistance for the Implementation of Stockholm Convention National Implementation Plans (NIPs) in African Least Developed Countries (LDCs)

§ Programmatic approach

§ Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Sudan, Uganda, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mozambique, UR Tanzania

§ Agencies : UNEP, UNIDO

§ Objectives : strengthen and/or build the capacity to implement the Stockholm Convention NIPs. Contribute to strengthening country's capacities for sound management of chemicals

§ Components : legislative / regulatory framework, BAT in industrial processes, reduction on exposure to POPs, identification of contaminated lands

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Examples of projects

§ Africa Stockpiles Program - with FAO et World Bank (Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Africa) for the first phase ; with FAO (Eritrea, Mozambique) for the second phase

§ Alternatives to DDT for vector control – with WHO, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Madagascar

§ Decision-making tool for vector control - Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa

§ Implementation of Stockholm Convention in Mauritius

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