Lead country
Viet Nam
Participating countries
Viet Nam
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From January 29, 2016 to July 29, 2020
SDGs addressed by this project
SDG targets
- 9.2 Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization
- 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management
- 12.1 Implement 10-year framework on sustainable consumption, production
Project ID: 5154
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Technical team
- Chemicals and Waste Programme
Technical area(s)
- Persistent organic pollutants
- Heavy metals
Sub-area(s)
- Mercury
Landscape(s)
- Human altered areas
Sub-landscape(s)
- Industrial site
Transformed sector(s)
- Materials and manufacturing
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Institutional mechanism and system building
- Policy advice
Strategy
- Governance
- Law regulation
- Monitor inventory
Sub-strategy
- Institutional framework
- Pollution control
- Waste/pollutants monitoring
Social inclusion
N/A
Gender equality
N/A
Gender result effectiveness scale
- Gender targeted
Pathway(s)
- Systems pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
N/A
SDG target(s)
- 9.2 Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization
- 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management
- 12.1 Implement 10-year framework on sustainable consumption, production
Conventions and protocols
- Stockholm Convention (POPs)
- Minamata Convention on Mercury
Private sector(s)
N/A
Hot topic
- Health
About this project
Description
The project objective is to continue reducing environmental and health risks from Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and harmful chemicals like Persistent Toxic Substances (PTS). The project aims to achieved this by supporting the improvement of the national integrated institutional and regulatory framework covering the management and reporting of POPs and harmful chemicals. In addition, the project targets to further improve national capacity for the management of POPs contaminated sites by building on experiences from GEF-4 projects. To improve such capacity, the project will develop provincial management plans to assess the risks and implement POPs release reduction measures at all POPs contaminated sites in two provinces. The specific project objectives are to strengthen national capacity on the safe management of POPs and harmful chemicals; control and reduce releases of POPs/PTS to the environment from contaminated sites; and undertake a preliminary inventory of mercury sources in order to draft a national roadmap for the reduction of mercury releases.
Objectives
Continued reduction of environmental and health risks through POPs, mercury and harmful chemicals release and exposure reduction achieved by provision of an integrated institutional and regulatory framework.
USD $2,650,000
Grant amount
USD $11,000,000
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($2,650,000)
Implementing partner(s)
- Ministry of Natural Resources and Enviroment
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