Lead country
Egypt
Participating countries
Egypt
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From September 15, 2015 to September 15, 2021
Project ID: 4567
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Technical team
- Chemicals and Waste Programme
Technical area(s)
- Waste management
- Heavy metals
Sub-area(s)
- Hazardous_chemical_waste
- E-waste
- Unintentional_POPs (e.g. furans, dioxins)
- Lead
Landscape(s)
- Human altered areas
Sub-landscape(s)
- Industrial site
- Urban areas
Transformed sector(s)
- Health care
- Electronic
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Innovative approaches
- Institutional mechanism and system building
Strategy
- Capacity building
- Technology innovation
- Management operation
Sub-strategy
- Community capacity building
- Institutional capacity building
- Technical capacity building
- Best available techniques & best environmental practices (BAT & BEP)
- Waste management
Social inclusion
- Private sector
- Waste pickers
Gender equality
- Awareness raising (on gender)
- Women decision making
Gender result effectiveness scale
- Gender targeted
Pathway(s)
- People pathway
- Systems pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Hazard control/mitigation
SDG target(s)
- 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management
- 12.2 Sustainably manage, efficiently use natural resources
- 12.6 Encourage companies to adopt sustainable practices, reporting
Conventions and protocols
- Stockholm Convention (POPs)
- Minamata Convention on Mercury
Private sector(s)
- Small and medium-sized enterprises
- Individuals/Entrepreneurs
Hot topic
- Health
- Poverty reduction
- Public-private partnership
About this project
Description
The project objective is to prevent and reduce health and environmental risks related to POPs and harmful chemicals through their release reduction achieved by provision of an integrated institutional and regulatory framework covering environmentally sound Health Care Waste and E-waste management. The project will reduce emissions of UPOPs as well as other hazardous releases (e.g. mercury, lead, etc.) resulting from the unsound management, disposal and recycling of a) Health-Care Waste (HCW), in particular due to substandard incineration practice and open burning of HCW; and, b) Electronic Waste, in particular due to the practice of unsound collection and recycling activities and open burning of electronic waste. The project will achieve this by i) determining the baseline for releases of UPOPs and other hazardous substances (e.g. mercury, lead) resulting from unsound HCW and E-waste practices; ii) conducting facility assessments; iii) building capacity among key stakeholders; iv) implementing BEP at selected model hospitals, health-care facilities (HCFs) and a central treatment facility (CTF); v) introducing BAT and BEP to formal and informal E-waste processors; vi) preparing health care facilities for the use/maintenance of non-mercury devices followed by introduction of mercury-free devices; vii) evaluating facilities to ensure that they have successfully implemented BEP; viii) installing and evaluating BAT technology(ies) at one Central Treatment Facility based on a defined evaluation criteria; and, xi) enhancing national HCWM training opportunities to reach out to additional hospitals/HCFs.
Objectives
Protect human- and environmental health by reducing releases of POPs and other hazardous releases resulting from the unsound management of waste, in particular the incineration and open burning of hazardous health care waste and electronic waste by demonstrating and promoting Best Available Techniques (BAT) and Best Environmental Practices (BEP) to soundly manage and dispose of such wastes.
USD $4,240,000
Grant amount
USD $17,568,000
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($4,240,000)
Implementing partner(s)
- Government of Egypt
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