Project

Environmental Sound Management of Mercury and Mercury Containing Products and their wastes in Artisanal Small-scale Gold Mining and Healthcare.

Lead country

Honduras

Participating countries

Honduras

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From April 22, 2015 to March 31, 2020

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 12.2 Sustainably manage, efficiently use natural resources
  2. 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management
  3. 12.a Build developing country capacity on sustainable consumption, production

Project ID: 5229

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Technical team

  • Chemicals and Waste Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Heavy metals

Sub-area(s)

  • Source_from_ASGM
  • Mercury

Landscape(s)

  • Human altered areas

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Mining sites

Transformed sector(s)

  • Materials and manufacturing
  • Metals and Mining
  • ASGM

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Institutional mechanism and system building
  • Normative support

Strategy

  • Law regulation
  • Capacity building
  • Management operation

Sub-strategy

  • Pollution control
  • Institutional capacity building
  • Waste management

Social inclusion

  • Local community/CSOs

Gender equality

  • Awareness raising (on gender)

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)

  • 12.2 Sustainably manage, efficiently use natural resources
  • 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management
  • 12.a Build developing country capacity on sustainable consumption, production

Conventions and protocols

  • Minamata Convention on Mercury

Private sector(s)

  • Small and medium-sized enterprises

Hot topic

  • Health
  • Structural/system transformation

About this project

Description

Protect human health and the environment from Mercury releases originating from the intentional use of mercury in artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM), as well as the unsound management and disposal of Mercury containing products from the healthcare sector. Protect human health and the environment from Mercury releases originating from the intentional use of mercury in artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM), as well as the unsound management and disposal of Mercury containing products from the healthcare sector.

Objectives

Protect human health and the environment from Mercury releases originating from the intentional use of mercury in artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM), as well as the unsound management and disposal of Mercury containing products from the healthcare sector.

USD $2,670,000

Grant amount

USD $3,960,000

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($2,670,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Honduras

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