Project

Development of Mercury Initial Assessment (MIA) for Minamata Convention in Ghana

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

  1. 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management
  2. 12.5 Reduce waste generation through reduction, recycling, reuse
  3. 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)

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