Lead country
Colombia
Participating countries
Colombia
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From January 12, 2017 to January 12, 2022
Project ID: 5481
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Technical team
- Chemicals and Waste Programme
Technical area(s)
- Persistent organic pollutants
- Heavy metals
Sub-area(s)
- Unintentional POPs (e.g. furans, dioxins)
- Mercury
Landscape(s)
- Human altered areas
Sub-landscape(s)
- Industrial site
- Rural areas
Transformed sector(s)
- Materials and manufacturing
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Data collection and analysis
- Institutional mechanism and system building
Strategy
- Management operation
- Monitor inventory
- Law regulation
Sub-strategy
- Waste management
- Waste/pollutants monitoring
- Pollution control
Social inclusion
- Private sector
- Local community/CSOs
- Waste pickers.
Gender equality
- Awareness raising (on gender)
Gender result effectiveness scale
- Gender responsive
Pathway(s)
- Systems pathway
- Sci-tech pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Hazard control/mitigation
SDG target(s)
- 3.9 Reduce deaths from pollution
- 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
- Small and medium-sized enterprises
Hot topic
- Structural/system transformation
- health.
About this project
Description
Introduce Best Environmental Practices (BEP) and Best Available Technologies (BAT) to reduce the release of unintentionally generated Persistent Organic Pollutants (UPOPs) and mercury from the treatment of healthcare waste (HCW), the processing of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), processing of iron and steel, and biomass burning in the sugarcane sector.
Objectives
The main objective of this 5-year project is to introduce the Best Environmental Practices (MPA) and the Best Available Technologies (BAT) to reduce the release of unintended Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and mercury from the treatment of hospital waste, of waste processing of electrical and electronic devices (WEEE), of steel processing, and of the burning of biomass in the sugar sector.
USD $5,950,000
Grant amount
USD $32,915,018
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($5,950,000)
Implementing partner(s)
- Government of Colombia
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