Project

National Programme for the environmental Sound Management and Life cycle management of Chemical substances

Lead country

Ecuador

Participating countries

Ecuador

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From March 23, 2018 to March 23, 2023

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 13.2 Integrate climate change into national policies, planning
  2. 12.2 Sustainably manage, efficiently use natural resources
  3. 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management

Project ID: 5706

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Technical team

  • Chemicals and Waste Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Persistent organic pollutants
  • Heavy metals

Sub-area(s)

  • Pesticide
  • Source_from_ASGM

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
  • Normative support
  • Optimising financing

Strategy

  • Enabling
  • Governance
  • Capacity building

Sub-strategy

  • Mainstream
  • Partnerships
  • Institutional framework
  • Community capacity building

Social inclusion

  • Local community/CSOs

Gender equality

  • Awareness raising (on gender)

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender responsive

Pathway(s)

  • People pathway
  • Systems pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Hazard control/mitigation

SDG target(s)

  • 13.2 Integrate climate change into national policies, planning
  • 12.2 Sustainably manage, efficiently use natural resources
  • 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management

Conventions and protocols

  • Stockholm Convention (POPs)

Private sector(s)

  • Small and medium-sized enterprises

Hot topic

  • Health
  • Structural/system transformation

About this project

Description

To protect human health and the environment by adopting an environmental sound management and live cycle management of chemical substances in Ecuador

Objectives

To protect human health and the environment by adopting the environmentally sound and live cycle management of chemical substances in Ecuador.

USD $8,690,000

Grant amount

USD $40,571,428

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($8,690,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Ecuador

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