Lead country
Kenya
Participating countries
Kenya
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From July 5, 2019 to July 5, 2024
SDGs addressed by this project
SDG targets
- 12.2 Sustainably manage, efficiently use natural resources
- 12.a Build developing country capacity on sustainable consumption, production
- 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management
Project ID: 5877
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Technical team
- Chemicals and Waste Programme
Technical area(s)
- Heavy metals
- Waste management
Sub-area(s)
- Mercury
- Source_from_ASGM
- Hazardous_chemical_waste
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
- Innovative approaches
- Optimising financing
Strategy
- Law regulation
- Technology innovation
- Finance economy
Sub-strategy
- Institutional framework
- Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
- Pollution control
- Transition to safer alternatives
- Best available techniques & best environmental practices (BAT & BEP)
- Innovations in techniques/ approaches
- New/other financial schemes/mechanism
Social inclusion
- Artisanal miners
- Private sector
- Local community/CSOs
Gender equality
- Livelihoods for women
- Women's cooperatives and groups
- Gender-responsive policies
Gender result effectiveness scale
N/A
Pathway(s)
- Sci-tech pathway
- People pathway
- Systems pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Hazard control/mitigation
- Reduce exposure
- Improve resilience
SDG target(s)
- 12.2 Sustainably manage, efficiently use natural resources
- 12.a Build developing country capacity on sustainable consumption, production
- 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management
Conventions and protocols
- Minamata Convention on Mercury
Private sector(s)
- Financial intermediaries and market facilitators
- Capital providers
- Small and medium-sized enterprises
Hot topic
- Structural/system transformation
- Multi-stakeholder collaboration
- Cov-19
USD $4,340,000
Grant amount
USD $17,819,711
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($4,340,000)
Implementing partner(s)
- Government of Kenya
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