Lead country
Gambia
Participating countries
Gambia
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From September 18, 2019 to September 18, 2023
SDGs addressed by this project
SDG targets
- 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management
- 12.5 Reduce waste generation through reduction, recycling, reuse
- 12.a Build developing country capacity on sustainable consumption, production
Project ID: 5908
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Technical team
- Chemicals and Waste Programme
Technical area(s)
- Waste management
- Persistent organic pollutants
Sub-area(s)
- Unintentional POPs (e.g. furans, dioxins)
- Hazardous_chemical_waste
Landscape(s)
- Human altered areas
Sub-landscape(s)
- Industrial site
- Contaminated sites
- Urban areas
Transformed sector(s)
- Materials and manufacturing
- Health care
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Data collection and analysis
- Policy advice
Strategy
- Law regulation
- Management operation
- Monitor inventory
Sub-strategy
- Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
- Laws enforcement/ Regulation
- Pollution control
- Waste management
- Demonstration sites/Pilot
- Awareness raising
- Knowledge/Data management
- Waste/pollutants monitoring
Social inclusion
- Women
- Local community/CSOs
- Private sector
Gender equality
- Awareness raising (on gender)
- Women's cooperatives and groups
Gender result effectiveness scale
N/A
Pathway(s)
- Systems pathway
- Sci-tech pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Hazard control/mitigation
- Reduce exposure
SDG target(s)
- 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management
- 12.5 Reduce waste generation through reduction, recycling, reuse
- 12.a Build developing country capacity on sustainable consumption, production
Conventions and protocols
- Stockholm Convention (POPs)
Private sector(s)
- Small and medium-sized enterprises
- Individuals/Entrepreneurs
Hot topic
- Structural/system transformation
- Green recovery
- Plastic
USD $2,048,000
Grant amount
USD $8,020,000
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($2,048,000)
Implementing partner(s)
- National Environment Agency
Related resources
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