Lead country
Ghana
Participating countries
Ghana
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From December 23, 2016 to December 23, 2018
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: 5806
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Technical team
- Chemicals and Waste Programme
Technical area(s)
- Persistent organic pollutants
- Heavy metals
Sub-area(s)
- Mercury
- Source_from_ASGM
Landscape(s)
- Human altered areas
Sub-landscape(s)
- Mining sites
- Contaminated sites
Transformed sector(s)
- Materials and manufacturing
- Metals and Mining
- ASGM
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Institutional mechanism and system building
Strategy
- Law regulation
- Management operation
- Capacity building
Sub-strategy
- Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
- Transition to safer alternatives
- Mainstream
- Waste management
- Impact assessment
- Waste/pollutants monitoring
- Institutional capacity building
Social inclusion
- Artisanal miners
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)
- 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
- Minamata Convention on Mercury
Private sector(s)
N/A
Hot topic
- Structural/system transformation
USD $200,000
Grant amount
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($200,000)
Implementing partner(s)
- Environment Protection Agency (EPA)
Related resources
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