Project

PCB Management in Ethiopia to Meet the 2025 Stockholm Convention Deadline – Phase 1

Lead country

Ethiopia

Participating countries

Ethiopia

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From May 1, 2019 to May 1, 2023

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 7.b Expand energy infrastructure, upgrade technology
  2. 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management
  3. 12.a Build developing country capacity on sustainable consumption, production

Project ID: 5861

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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
  • Contaminated sites
  • Urban areas

Transformed sector(s)

  • Energy

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Data collection and analysis
  • Institutional mechanism and system building

Strategy

  • Technology innovation
  • Law regulation
  • Capacity building

Sub-strategy

  • Transition to safer alternatives
  • Institutional framework
  • Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
  • Laws enforcement/ Regulation
  • Waste management
  • Waste/pollutants monitoring
  • Institutional capacity building

Social inclusion

  • Private sector
  • Women

Gender equality

  • Awareness raising (on gender)
  • Gender-responsive policies

Gender result effectiveness scale

N/A

Pathway(s)

  • Systems pathway
  • Sci-tech pathway
  • People pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Hazard control/mitigation
  • Reduce exposure

SDG target(s)

  • 7.b Expand energy infrastructure, upgrade technology
  • 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management
  • 12.a Build developing country capacity on sustainable consumption, production

Conventions and protocols

  • Stockholm Convention (POPs)

Private sector(s)

  • Large corporations

Hot topic

  • Structural/system transformation
  • Multi-stakeholder collaboration

USD $2,040,000

Grant amount

USD $8,350,000

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($2,040,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Ethiopia

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