GEF-financed projects related to combating pollution

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GEF-financed projects related to combating pollution

GEF-8 projects

2022 Yemen: Managing Biodiversity and Environmental Risks Associated with the Safer Salvage Operation in the Red Sea, UNDP, Project Financing: $4,016,210 ID: 11056
2022 Regional (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Peru): Accelerate Minamata Convention compliance through improved understanding and control of mercury trade in Latin America, UNEP, Project Financing: $3,000,000 ID 11047
2022 Regional (Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe): Circular and POPs-free Plastics in Africa, UNEP, project financing: $11,000,000 ID: 11049
2023 GEF-8 Blue and Green Island Integrated Programme (NbS to the food, tourism, and urban sectors) (Belize, Cabo Verde, Comoros, Cuba, Maldives, Mauritius, Micronesia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Seychelles, St. Lucia, Timor Leste, Trinidad and Tobago, Vanuatu)(GEFID: 11250). Agency: FAO, WWF-US, IUCN, UNDP, World Bank, UNEP. GEF Project Financing: $121,183,945; Co-financing: $733,790,102: 2,701 metric tons of chemicals of global concern and their waste reduced
2023 GEF-8 Circular Solutions to Plastic Pollution (food and beverage sector) (Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, India, Jordan, Lao PDR, Morocco, Nigeria, Peru, Philippines, Senegal, South Africa) (GEFID: 11181) Agency: WWF-US, UNIDO, UNEP, UNDP. GEF Project Financing: $96,280,581. Co-financing: $595,778,545: 1,538,486 metric tons avoided residual plastic waste
2023 GEF-8 Eliminating hazardous chemicals from supply chains (fashion and construction supply chains) (Cambodia, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ecuador, India, India, Mongolia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Pakistan, Peru, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago) (GEFID: 11169). Agency: FAO, UNEP, UNDP, UNIDO. GEF Project Financing: $45,674,998. Co-financing: $295,245,000: 34,589 metric tons of chemicals of global concern and their waste reduced; 107.16 grams of toxic equivalent of persistent organic pollutants to air reduced
2023 Eswatini. Reduced risks on human health & the environment through reduction of POPs & U-POPs in Eswatini (GEF ID: 11272) Agency: UNDP; GEF projecy financing: $4,935,000; co-financing: $31,140,000.
2023 Global (Sierra Leone, Tunisia, Türkiye, Uruguay). Shifting to Zero Waste Against Pollution (SWAP) Initiative (GEF ID: 11211). Agency UNDP; GEF project financing: $26,700,000; Co-financing: $216,691,545.
2023 Global (Costa Rica, Kenya and Vanuatu). Plastic Reduction in the Oceans: Sustaining and Enhancing Actions on Sea-based Sources (PRO-SEAS). (GEF ID: 11166). Agency: FAO; GEF project financing: $7,105,936; Co-financing: $49,151,264.

Pesticides

2005 Reducing Pesticide Run-off to the Caribbean Sea Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Regional United Nations Environment Programme $4,290,000
2007 Conservation and Use of Crop Genetic Diversity to Control Pests and Diseases in Support of Sustainable Agriculture (Phase 1) China, Ecuador, Morocco, Uganda, Global United Nations Environment Programme $3,411,148
2008 Improved Management and Release Containment of POPs Pesticides in Nicaragua Nicaragua United Nations Development Programme $900,000
2008 Capacity Building on Obsolete Pesticides in EECCA Countries Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Mongolia, North Macedonia, Romania, Regional Food and Agriculture Organization $1,000,000
2008 Building Capacity to Eliminate POPs Pesticides Stockpiles Viet Nam United Nations Development Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization $4,300,800
2008 Reducing Dependence on POPs and other Agro-Chemicals in the Senegal and Niger River Basins through Integrated Production, Pest and Pollution Management Benin, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Regional United Nations Environment Programme $4,105,330
2009 Environmentally Sound Management and Disposal of Obsolete POPs Pesticides and Other POPs Wastes China United Nations Industrial Development Organization $9,959,000
2009 Prevention and Disposal of POPs and Obsolete Pesticides in Syria Syria Food and Agriculture Organization $975,000
2010 Disposal of POPs Wastes and Obsolete Pesticides Mozambique Food and Agriculture Organization $1,950,000
2010 Environmentally Sound Management and Disposal of POPs Pesticides and PCBs Nepal United Nations Industrial Development Organization $880,000
2011 Eritrea: Prevention and Disposal of POPs and Obsolete Pesticides Eritrea Food and Agriculture Organization $2,150,000
2011 Disposal of POPs Pesticides and Initial Steps for Containment of Dumped POPs Pesticides Georgia United Nations Development Programme $1,000,000
2014 Pesticide Risk Reduction in Malawi Malawi Food and Agriculture Organization $2,550,000
2014 Elimination of Obsolete Pesticide Stockpiles and Addressing POPs Contaminated Sites within a Sound Chemicals Management Framework Armenia United Nations Development Programme $4,700,000
2014 Disposal of POPs and Obsolete Pesticides and Strengthening Sound Pesticide Management Cameroon Food and Agriculture Organization $1,710,000
2014 Disposal of POPs and Obsolete Pesticides and Strengthening Life-cycle Management of Pesticides Benin Food and Agriculture Organization $1,830,000
2014 Disposal of Obsolete Pesticides including POPs and Strengthening Pesticide Management in the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) Member States Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Chad, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Regional Food and Agriculture Organization $7,450,000
2014 Disposal of Obsolete Pesticides including POPs and Implementation of Pesticides Management Programme Morocco Food and Agriculture Organization $3,500,000
2015 Disposal of Obsolete Pesticides including POPs, Promotion of Alternatives and Strengthening Pesticides Management in the Caribbean Antigua And Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts And Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Regional Food and Agriculture Organization $4,357,500
2015 Obsolete Pesticides Management Project Cote d'Ivoire The World Bank $7,000,000
2015 Strengthening Capacities for the Sound Management of Pesticides Including POPs Uruguay Food and Agriculture Organization $1,874,028
2016 Lifecycle Management of Pesticides and Disposal of POPs Pesticides in Central Asian Countries and Turkey Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, TÃ¼rkiye, Regional Food and Agriculture Organization $8,136,986
2019 Pesticide Risk Reduction in Bangladesh Bangladesh Food and Agriculture Organization $8,295,000
GEF - 7 Promoting eco-friendly crop protection solutions for persistent organic pollutant and highly hazardous pesticide reduction in Asia India, Philippines, Regional United Nations Industrial Development Organization $7,000,000
GEF - 7 Integrated Management and Environmentally Sound Disposal of POPs Pesticides and Mercury in Healthcare and Agricultural Sectors in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka United Nations Development Programme $5,040,000

Nutrients

1998 The Role of the Coastal Ocean in the Disturbed and Undisturbed Nutrient and Carbon Cycles Global United Nations Environment Programme $720,000
2001 Strengthening the Implementation Capacities for Nutrient Reduction and Transboundary Cooperation in the Danube River Basin-Phase IProject Short Title:Danube Regional Project Phase 1 Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Ukraine, Regional United Nations Development Programme $5,000,000
2004 DBSB: Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation Project - under WB-GEF Strategic Partnership for Nutrient Reduction in the Danube River and Black Sea TÃ¼rkiye The World Bank $7,000,000
2007 DBSB: Integrated Nutrient Pollution Control Project-under the WB-GEF Investment Fund for Nutrient Reduction in the Danube River and Black Sea Romania The World Bank $5,500,000
GEF - 2 Danube/Black Sea Strategic Partnership - Nutrient Reduction Investment Fund: Tranche 2 Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Georgia, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, TÃ¼rkiye, Ukraine, Regional The World Bank $1,750,000
2004 Strengthening the Implementation Capacities for Nutrient Reduction and Transboundary Cooperation in the Danube River Basin (Tranche 2) Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Ukraine, Regional United Nations Development Programme $12,240,000
2005 DBSB Water Quality Protection Project - under WB-GEF Strategic Partnership for Nutrient Reduction in the Danube River and Black Sea Bosnia-Herzegovina The World Bank $8,900,000
2005 DBSB Reduction of Enterprise Nutrient Discharges Project - RENDR - under WB-GEF Strategic Partnership for Nutrient Reduction in the Danube River and Black Sea Serbia The World Bank $9,020,000
2006 DBSB Reduction of Nutrient Discharges - under WB-GEF Strategic Partnership for Nutrient Reduction in the Danube River and Black Sea Hungary The World Bank $12,500,000
2008 Promoting Replication of Good Practices for Nutrient Reduction and Joint Collaboration in Central and Eastern Europe Albania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Montenegro, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovak Republic, TÃ¼rkiye, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Regional United Nations Development Programme $974,816
2011 Global Foundations For Reducing Nutrient Enrichment and ODFLB Pollution in Support of GNC Global United Nations Environment Programme $1,718,182
2016 Targeted Research for Improving Understanding of the Global Nitrogen Cycle towards the Establishment of an International Nutrient Management System INMS Global United Nations Environment Programme $6,000,000

Marine Pollution

1991 Ship Waste Disposal China The World Bank $30,000,000
1991 Biodiversity Conservation and Marine Pollution Abatement Seychelles The World Bank $1,800,000
1991 Pollution Control and Other Measures to Protect Biodiversity in Lake Tanganyika Burundi, Congo DR, Tanzania, Zambia, Regional United Nations Development Programme $10,000,000
1991 Water Pollution Control and Biodiversity Conservation in the Gulf of Guinea Large Marine Ecosystem (LME) Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Regional United Nations Development Programme $6,000,000
1992 Ship-Generated Waste Management Antigua And Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts And Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Regional The World Bank $12,500,000
1992 Oil Pollution Management Project for the Southwest Mediterranean Sea Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Regional The World Bank $18,260,000
1993 Prevention and Management of Marine Pollution in the East Asian Seas Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Korea DPR, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Viet Nam, Regional United Nations Development Programme $8,000,000
1993 Wider Caribbean Initiative for Ship-Generated Waste Latin America and Caribbean, Regional The World Bank $5,500,000
1997 Developing the Danube River Basin Pollution Reduction Programme Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Regional United Nations Development Programme $3,900,000
2000 Transfer of Environmentally-sound Technology (TEST) to Reduce Transboundary Pollution in the Danube River Basin Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Slovak Republic, Regional United Nations Development Programme $990,000
2000 Building Environmental Citizenship to Support Transboundary Pollution Reduction in the Danube: A Pilot Project Hungary, Slovenia, Regional United Nations Development Programme $750,000
2003 EBRD/GEF Environmental Credit Facility (formerly entitled Slovenia: National Pollution Reduction Project) Slovenia The World Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development $9,907,650
2005 Environmental Protection and Maritime Transport Pollution Control in the Gulf of Honduras Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Regional Inter-American Development Bank $4,800,000
2006 Pollution Reduction through Improved Municipal Wastewater Management in Coastal Cities in ACP Countries with a Focus on SIDS Global United Nations Development Programme $1,000,000
2006 WB-GEF POL Ningbo Water and Environment Project - under WB/GEF Partnership Investment Fund for Pollution Reduction in the LME of East Asia China The World Bank $5,000,000
2006 Livestock Waste Management in East Asia China, Thailand, Viet Nam, Regional The World Bank $7,000,000
2007 WB/GEF POL: Second Shandong Environment - under WB/GEF Partnership Investment Fund for Pollution Reduction in the LME of East Asia China The World Bank $5,000,000
2007 WB/GEF POL: Liaoning Medium Cities Infrastructure - under WB/GEF Partnership Investment Fund for Pollution Reduction in the LME of East Asia China The World Bank $5,000,000
2007 WB/GEF POL: Manila Third Sewerage Project (MTSP) - under WB/GEF Partnership Investment Fund for Pollution Reduction in the LME of East Asia Philippines The World Bank $5,000,000
2008 WB/GEF MED: Coastal Cities Pollution Control (APL 2) Croatia The World Bank $6,400,000
2008 PAS: Implementing Sustainable Integrated Water Resource and Wastewater Management in the Pacific Island Countries - under the GEF Pacific Alliance for Sustainability Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Regional United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Environment Programme $9,025,688
2009 WB/GEF POL: Coastal Cities Environment and Sanitation Project - under WB/GEF Partnership Investment Fund for Pollution Reduction in the LME of East Asia Viet Nam The World Bank $5,000,000
2009 Reducing and Preventing Land-based Pollution in the Rio de la Plata/Maritime Front through Implementation of the FrePlata Strategic Action Programme Argentina, Uruguay, Regional United Nations Development Programme $2,850,000
2009 Implementation of The Dnipro Basin Strategic Action Program for the reduction of persistent toxics pollution Belarus, Ukraine, Regional United Nations Development Programme $2,035,000
2010 MED: Tunisia Northern Tunis Wastewater Project Tunisia The World Bank $8,030,000
2010 Testing a Prototype Caribbean Regional Fund for Wastewater Management (CReW) Antigua And Barbuda, Barbados, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, St. Lucia, Suriname, Regional Inter-American Development Bank, United Nations Environment Programme $20,000,000
2010 Implementing Integrated Water Resource and Wastewater Management in Atlantic and Indian Ocean SIDS Cabo Verde, Comoros, Maldives, Mauritius, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Regional United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Development Programme $9,700,000
2011 WB/GEF POL: Huai River Basin Marine Pollution Reduction China The World Bank $5,000,000
2013 Adriatic Sea Environmental Pollution Control Project (I) Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Regional The World Bank $6,770,000
2014 Bizerte Lake Environmental Project Lagoon and Marine de Pollution Tunisia European Bank for Reconstruction and Development $2,000,000
2015 POPs and Chemical Pollution Solutions through Area-based-Ecoeffective-Management China United Nations Industrial Development Organization $6,000,000
2019 CReW+: An Integrated Approach to Water and Wastewater Management Using Innovative Solutions and Promoting Financing Mechanisms in the Wider Caribbean Region Barbados, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, St. Kitts And Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Regional Inter-American Development Bank, United Nations Environment Programme, Inter-American Development Bank $14,943,938
2020 Demonstration Investments in Eco-Waste Infrastructure Solutions: Thanlyin and Ayeyarwady Watersheds (which cover Mandalay, Hpa-An and Mawlaymine) Myanmar Asian Development Bank $4,587,156
GEF - 6 Promoting Accelerated Uptake of Environmental Technologies and Promotion of Best Practices for Improved Water, Chemicals, and Waste Management in the Black Sea Basin Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, Regional European Bank for Reconstruction and Development $5,933,105
2020 Africa Environmental Health and Pollution Management Project by The World Bank for Senegal, $5,504,587; Kenya, $8,073,395; Zambia, $8,256,881; Ghana, $8,715,596; Tanzania, $7,339,450
2020 Mediterranean Pollution Hot Spots Investment Project Albania, Algeria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Montenegro, Morocco, Tunisia, Regional United Nations Environment Programme $5,000,000
2020 Reducing Pollution from Harmful Chemicals and Wastes in Mediterranean Hot Spots and Measuring Progress to Impacts Albania, Algeria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Montenegro, Morocco, Tunisia, TÃ¼rkiye, Regional United Nations Environment Programme $14,250,000
2022 Reducing Pollution and Preserving Environmental Flows in the East Asian Seas through the Implementation of Integrated River Basin Management in ASEAN Countries Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Philippines, Viet Nam, Regional United Nations Development Programme $8,479,123
GEF - 6 EHPMP - Environmental Health and Pollution Management Program in Africa Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania, Zambia, Regional The World Bank $42,201,835

Plastics

2014 Reducing Releases of PBDEs and UPOPs Originating from Unsound Waste Management and Recycling Practices and the Manufacturing of Plastics in Indonesia Indonesia United Nations Development Programme $3,990,000
2017 Addressing Marine Plastics - A Systemic Approach Global United Nations Environment Programme $2,000,000
2021 Promoting Resource Efficiency and Circularity to Reduce Plastic Pollution for Asia and the Pacific Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Viet Nam, Regional Asian Development Bank $2,000,000
2021 Establishing a circular economy framework for the plastics sector in Ghana Ghana United Nations Industrial Development Organization $7,000,000
2022 Reduce marine plastics and plastic pollution in Latin American and Caribbean cities through a circular economy approach Colombia, Jamaica, Panama, Regional United Nations Environment Programme $7,000,000
2022 Plastik Sulit: Accelerating Circular Economy for Difficult Plastics in Indonesia Indonesia Asian Development Bank $7,123,288
GEF - 7 Supporting the Implementation of the National Action Plan on Marine Plastic Litter in the context of Green Recovery post-COVID 19 in Viet Nam Viet Nam United Nations Development Programme $2,000,000
GEF - 8 Circular and POPs-free Plastics in Africa Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Regional United Nations Environment Programme $11,000,000

Wastes

2000 Economic and Cost-effective Use of Wood Waste for Municipal Heating Stystems Latvia United Nations Development Programme $750,000
2001 Integrated Approach to Wood Waste Combustion for Heat Production Poland United Nations Development Programme $950,000
2007 Demonstrating and Promoting Best Techniques and Practices for Reducing Health-care Waste to Avoid Environmental Releases of Dioxins and Mercury Argentina, India, Latvia, Lebanon, Philippines, Senegal, Tanzania, Viet Nam, Global United Nations Development Programme $10,326,455
2007 Environmentally Sustainable Management of Medical Waste in China China United Nations Industrial Development Organization $11,650,000
2007 Disposal of PCB Wastes in Romania Romania United Nations Industrial Development Organization $952,000
2010 Integrated Solid Waste Management Belarus The World Bank $5,500,000
2010 Demonstrating and Promoting Best Techniques and Practices for Managing Healthcare Waste and PCBs Tunisia The World Bank $5,500,000
2010 Demonstration of a Regional Approach to Environmentally Sound Management of PCB Liquid Wastes and Transformers and Capacitors Containing PCBs Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Congo DR, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Regional United Nations Environment Programme $4,889,399
2011 Environmentally Sound Management of Medical Wastes in India India United Nations Industrial Development Organization $10,000,000
2012 PAS: Pacific POPs Release Reduction Through Improved Management of Solid and Hazardous Wastes Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Regional United Nations Environment Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization $3,275,000
2013 Environmental Sound Life-Cycle Management of Mercury Containing Products and their Wastes Uruguay United Nations Development Programme $1,237,800
2014 Belize Chemicals and Waste Management Programme Belize United Nations Development Programme $990,000
2014 Municipal Solid Waste Management China The World Bank $12,000,000
2014 Protect Human Health and the Environment from Unintentional Releases of POPs Originating from Incineration and Open Burning of Health Care- and Electronic-waste Egypt United Nations Development Programme $4,100,000
2014 Protect Human Health and the Environment from Unintentional Releases of POPs and Mercury from the Unsound Disposal of Healthcare Waste in Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyz Republic United Nations Development Programme $1,425,000
2015 Environmentally Sound Management and Disposal of Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) - Containing Equipment and Disposal of DDT Wastes, and Upgrade of Technical Expertise Guatemala United Nations Industrial Development Organization $2,000,000
2015 Environmentally Sound Management and Disposal of PCBs Wastes and PCB Contaminated Equipment in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka United Nations Industrial Development Organization $4,725,000
2015 Sound Management of POPs Containing Waste Mexico United Nations Development Programme $5,720,000
2016 Promotion of BAT and BEP to Reduce uPOPs Releases from Waste Open Burning in the Participating African Countries of COMESA-SADC Subregions Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Regional United Nations Industrial Development Organization $6,615,000
2016 Implementation of PCB Management Programs for Electric Cooperatives and Safe e-wastes Management Philippines United Nations Industrial Development Organization $6,200,000
2016 Reducing UPOPs and Mercury Releases from Healthcare Waste Management, e-Waste Treatment, Scrap Processing and Biomass Burning Colombia United Nations Development Programme $5,800,000
2017 Reduction and Elimination of POPs and Other Chemical Releases through Implementation of Environmentally Sound Management of E-Waste, Healthcare Waste and Priority U-POPs Release Sources Associated with General Waste Management Activities Jordan United Nations Development Programme $5,090,000
2017 Environmentally Sound Management of Products and Wastes Containing POPs and Risks Associated with Their Final Disposal Honduras United Nations Development Programme $3,460,000
2017 NAMA on Integrated Waste Management and Biogas in Uganda Uganda United Nations Development Programme $2,170,030
2017 National Program for the Environmental Sound Management and Live Cycle Management of Chemical Substances Ecuador United Nations Development Programme $8,490,000
2019 Strengthening the Enabling Framework for Biodiversity Mainstreaming and Mercury Reduction in Small and Medium-scale Gold Mining Operations Guyana United Nations Development Programme $4,543,352
2019 Circular Economy approaches for the electronics sector in Nigeria Nigeria United Nations Environment Programme $2,000,000
2019 Impact Investment and Capacity Building in Support of Sustainable Waste Management to Reduce Emissions of Unintentional POPs (UPOPs) and Mercury in West Africa Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Regional West African Development Bank $15,924,771
2019 Sound Management of Unintentional Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and Polychlorinated Biphenyl Ether (PBDEs) to Reduce their Emission from the Industrial Waste Sector Cote d'Ivoire United Nations Industrial Development Organization $5,325,000
2020 KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIPS TO REDUCE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RISKS FROM EXPOSURE TO HARMFUL CHEMICALS AND WASTE Africa, Regional The World Bank $4,311,926
2020 Demonstration of Non-thermal Treatment of DDT Wastes in Central Asia Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Regional United Nations Environment Programme $15,120,000
2021 Supporting a Green Economy - Decoupling Hazardous Waste Generation from Economic Growth in Rwanda Rwanda United Nations Development Programme $6,300,000
2021 Strengthening national capacity to manage industrial POPs within the framework of national and international guidelines on chemical substances and hazardous waste management Colombia United Nations Development Programme $5,187,000
2022 Accelerate implementation of dental amalgam provisions and strengthen country capacities in the environmental sound management of associated wastes under the Minamata Convention Senegal, Thailand, Uruguay, Global United Nations Environment Programme $2,000,000
2022 Reduction of UPOPs through Waste Management in a Circular Economy Lebanon The World Bank $8,858,447
2022 Reduction of unintentionally-produced persistent organic pollutants and mercury through an environmentally-sound approach on health care wastes management in the Philippines with a special focus on the pandemic Philippines United Nations Industrial Development Organization $4,880,000
2022 Environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes containing POPs and Mercury Panama United Nations Development Programme $2,730,000
2022 Promotion of circular economy in the textile and garment sector through the sustainable management of chemicals and waste in Ethiopia Ethiopia United Nations Industrial Development Organization $3,000,000
2022 POPs and mercury-free solutions for environmentally sound waste management in Paraguay Paraguay United Nations Industrial Development Organization $4,000,000
2022 Promotion of circular economy in the textile and garment sector through the sustainable management of chemicals and waste in Lesotho, Madagascar and South Africa Lesotho, Madagascar, South Africa, Regional United Nations Industrial Development Organization $7,400,000
2022 Eliminate mercury use and adequately manage mercury and mercury wastes in the chlor alkali sector in Mexico Mexico United Nations Environment Programme $12,000,000
2023 Improved Management Of Ewaste And Healthcare Waste To Reduce Emissions Of Unintentionally Produced POPs (UPOPs) Egypt The World Bank $9,132,421
2021 Circular Economy Regional Initiative (CERI) Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, TÃ¼rkiye, Regional European Bank for Reconstruction and Development $13,761,468