Lead country
Costa Rica
Participating countries
Costa Rica
Project status
Closure
Implementing period
From October 21, 2013 to December 31, 2020
Project ID: 4092
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Technical team
- Chemicals and Waste Programme
Technical area(s)
- Waste management
Sub-area(s)
- Hazardous_chemical_waste
Landscape(s)
- Human altered areas
Sub-landscape(s)
- Industrial site
Transformed sector(s)
- Energy
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Institutional mechanism and system building
- Normative support
Strategy
- Law regulation
- Enabling
- Monitor inventory
Sub-strategy
- Standards/ Labeling/ Guideline
- Surveillance & Compliance
- Pollution control
- Technical capacity building
- Awareness raising
- Best available techniques & best environmental practices (BAT & BEP)
- Waste/pollutants monitoring
- Waste management
- Impact assessment
Social inclusion
- Private sector
Gender equality
- Awareness raising (on gender)
Gender result effectiveness scale
N/A
Pathway(s)
- People pathway
- Systems pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Reduce exposure
SDG target(s)
- 6.3 Reduce water pollution, minimizing hazardous chemical releases
- 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management
- 12.5 Reduce waste generation through reduction, recycling, reuse
Conventions and protocols
- Stockholm Convention (POPs)
Private sector(s)
- Small and medium-sized enterprises
- Large corporations
Hot topic
- Health
Project objectives
Minimize risks of exposure from PCBs to people and the environment in Costa Rica.
USD $2,000,000
Grant amount
USD $8,819,274
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($2,000,000)
Implementing partner(s)
- Government of Costa Rica
Project metrics
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