Project

Environmentally Sound Management of Products and Wastes Containing POPs and Risks Associated with their Final Disposal

Lead country

Honduras

Participating countries

Honduras

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From September 19, 2018 to September 19, 2023

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management
  2. 12.7 Promote sustainable public procurement practices
  3. 12.a Build developing country capacity on sustainable consumption, production

Project ID: 5615

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Technical team

  • Chemicals and Waste Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Persistent organic pollutants
  • Waste management

Sub-area(s)

  • Pesticide
  • Unintentional POPs (e.g. furans, dioxins)
  • Hazardous_chemical_waste
  • E-waste

Landscape(s)

  • Human altered areas

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Industrial site

Transformed sector(s)

  • Materials and manufacturing
  • Health care

UNDP role(s)

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

Strategy

  • Law regulation
  • Management operation
  • Technology innovation

Sub-strategy

  • Institutional framework
  • Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
  • Laws enforcement/ Regulation
  • Awareness raising
  • Institutional capacity building
  • Waste management
  • Demonstration sites/Pilot
  • Transition to safer alternatives
  • Best available techniques & best environmental practices (BAT & BEP)

Social inclusion

N/A

Gender equality

  • Awareness raising (on gender)

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
  • 12.7 Promote sustainable public procurement practices
  • 12.a Build developing country capacity on sustainable consumption, production

Conventions and protocols

  • Stockholm Convention (POPs)

Private sector(s)

N/A

Hot topic

  • Structural/system transformation

USD $3,570,000

Grant amount

USD $26,600,325

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($3,570,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Honduras

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