Project

Comprehensive Environmentally Sound Management of PCBs in Montenegro

Lead country

Montenegro

Participating countries

Montenegro

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From January 16, 2017 to January 16, 2022

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 9.2 Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization
  2. 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management
  3. 12.6 Encourage companies to adopt sustainable practices, reporting

Project ID: 5562

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Technical team

  • Chemicals and Waste Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Waste management

Sub-area(s)

  • Hazardous_chemical_waste

Landscape(s)

  • Human altered areas

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Industrial site

Transformed sector(s)

  • Materials and manufacturing

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Data collection and analysis
  • Direct support / Service Delivery

Strategy

  • Capacity building
  • Monitor inventory
  • Management operation

Sub-strategy

  • Institutional capacity building
  • Waste/pollutants monitoring
  • Waste management

Social inclusion

  • Private sector

Gender equality

N/A

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender targeted

Pathway(s)

  • People pathway
  • Systems pathway
  • Sci-tech pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Hazard control/mitigation

SDG target(s)

  • 9.2 Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization
  • 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management
  • 12.6 Encourage companies to adopt sustainable practices, reporting

Conventions and protocols

N/A

Private sector(s)

N/A

Hot topic

  • Public-private partnership

About this project

Description

The proposed project intends to support the country with the necessary technical and financial assistance to ensure that all the remaining PCBs in the country (estimated in not less than 900 t of PCB contaminated equipment and waste) are identified and disposed of. The project will be implemented side by side with the relevant institutional and industrial stakeholders, i.e. the Ministry for Sustainable Development and Tourism, EPCG, KAP and other holders of PCB containing equipment. Although the project expects to solve all remaining PCBs issues in the country, it will also ensure that enough capacity for the sound management of PCBs would have been built for the management of any further such hazardous waste identified in time after project's closure. The project will consist of the following four components which are: Component 1. Capacity strengthening on PCB management; Component 2. PCB Inventory, planning and establishment of public-private partnership; Component 3. Environmentally Sound Management (ESM) of PCBs, andComponent 4. Monitoring, Learning, Adaptive Feedback and Evaluation

Objectives

Comprehensive identification and disposal/treatment of PCB contaminated equipment and waste in the country.

USD $3,600,000

Grant amount

USD $19,803,691

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($3,600,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Montenegro

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Capacity strengthening on PCB management.

Indicators:

700 tons of pure PCBs and 200 tons of low-concentrated PCBs/related waste are safely managed and disposed of/decontaminated by the end of the project, thus reducing global and local environment from exposure to these hazardous wastes
Amount of PCB contaminated equipment and waste treated or disposed of
Amount of PCB equipment identified and listed in the PCB inventory and included in the national management plan
National environmentally sound management (ESM) system of PCB chemicals and waste drafted, and implemented by 2020
Gender Dimension in the context of PCBs issue in Montenegro completed, strategies for better Gender Mainstreaming in POPs related activities identified.
Level of enforcement of the Montenegro's law on PCB management strengthened, measured through the number of owners of electrical equipment complying with the regulation.
Number of operators of the electric sector and of the environmental control authority trained on and feel confident in practically applying the ESM system for PCBs.
Number of technical and procedural guidance documents compliant with Stockholm Convention and national regulation completed and endorsed.
An innovative public-private partnership for the management of PCB contaminated equipment and waste is established and supports national PCB disposal/decontamination effort.
One consolidated country-wide PCB inventory updated and completed, with appropriate data of sampling dates and analysis results of phased out and in-use equipment
The PCB national management plan is drafted and approved.
Documentary and direct evidence that environmentally sound technologies or services for PCBs disposal/dehalogenation have been identified, assessed and procured
Identification and technical-economic feasibility analysis of disposal options based on the amount of pure and low-concentration
PCBs identified (to be completed at mid-term)National PCB storage capacity, in terms of a mass of PCB equipment and waste that can be safely stored, of selected storage facilities in the country is available and up to international standards.
Storage facilities are upgraded and monitored under the project for the safe storage of PCB equipment/oils/waste pending final disposal or decontamination procedures
Documentary evidence that project's results sustained and replicated through proper M&E and Knowledge Management actions.
Outcome 2:

PCB Inventory, planning and establishment of public-private partnership
Outcome 3:

Environmentally sound management (ESM) of PCBs

Outcome 4:

Knowledge Management and M&E
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