Lead country
New York - GEF
Participating countries
India, Latvia, Lebanon, Argentina, Philippines, Senegal, Viet Nam
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From November 16, 2009 to October 31, 2011
Project ID: 2596
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Technical team
- Chemicals and Waste Programme
Technical area(s)
- Heavy metals
- Persistent organic pollutants
Sub-area(s)
- Mercury
- Unintentional POPs (e.g. furans, dioxins)
Landscape(s)
- Human altered areas
Sub-landscape(s)
- Rural areas
- Contaminated sites
Transformed sector(s)
- Materials and manufacturing
- Metals and Mining
- Health care
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Convening / Partnerships / Knowledge Sharing
Strategy
- Technology innovation
- Management operation
- Capacity building
Sub-strategy
- Transition to safer alternatives
- Best available techniques & best environmental practices (BAT & BEP)
- Waste management
- Demonstration sites/Pilot
- Education/Courses
Social inclusion
N/A
Gender equality
N/A
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)
- 3.9 Reduce deaths from pollution
- 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management
Conventions and protocols
N/A
Private sector(s)
- Capital providers
Hot topic
- Health
- Structural/system transformation
Project description
The Overall Objective of the project is to reduce environmental releases of dioxins and mercury by demonstrating and promoting best techniques and practices for reducing and managing health care waste in a number of countries and regions. The Project will develop very specific health care waste management models through working with at least one large hospital and several smaller clinics and/or rural health or injection programs in each participating country. The focus will be on education, training, establishing management systems, and the careful selection of instruments, products and technologies that can be applied in a wide variety of settings. These will take on many different forms, but all will derive similar, replicable results in virtually eliminating dioxin and mercury releases from participating facilities and institutions. Operating in seven countries (Argentina, India, Latvia, Lebanon, Philippines, Senegal, Vietnam) covering five regions, the Project will have a strong regional component for the purpose of disseminating Project outcomes through participation of health care facilities and organizations from other countries in the region in the training programs and/or in regional conferences. The principal cooperating agencies working with UNDP on this project are the World Health organisation (WHO) and Health Care Without Harm (HCWH)..
USD $11,051,403
Grant amount
USD $13,663,599
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($11,051,403)
Implementing partner(s)
- Governments
Related resources
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