Financial Mechanism and Resources

T7 (Pollution Reduction): How to Use GEF Funding

This page aims to provide information regarding the reduction of pollution risks and the negative impact of pollution from all sources for recipient Parties and relevant stakeholders, including how to access funding of the Global Environment Facility in this regard. It is a work in progress and will be updated as necessary.

Pollution, including from excess nutrients, pesticides, plastics and other waste, continues to be a major driver of biodiversity loss. Despite increasing efforts to improve the use of fertilizers, nutrient levels continue to be detrimental to ecosystem function and biodiversity. Plastic pollution is accumulating in the oceans, with severe impacts on marine ecosystems, and in other ecosystems with still largely unknown implications. Actions taken in many countries to minimize plastic waste have not been sufficient to reduce this source of pollution. Reported actions included: Regulatory approaches to pollutants; Setting up monitoring systems and standards; Promoting the development and improvement of infrastructure to improve waste management; Regulation of fertilizer use; Monitoring of agricultural runoff; Placing of caps on nitrogen use; Bans or restrictions on certain types of plastics; Awareness campaigns and community clean-up events on plastics; Increasing efforts related to recycling.

Financial support of the Global Environment Facility

GEF-financed projects related to combating pollution

• Food Systems
• Clean and Healthy Oceans
• Eliminating Hazardous Chemicals from Supply Chains
• Circular Solutions to Plastic Pollution
• IWFA: Objective One
• CWFA: Objectives One and Three

Guidance to Parties

Planing

• Develop and implement national and regional targets as well as the related indicators for assessing progress towards these targets, within national biodiversity strategies and action plans, to reduce the pressures on biodiversity from pollution; (X/30, para. 4)
• Encourage the integration of biodiversity consideration into strategies and policies to reduce pollution; (VI/22, annex, programme element 1, goal 2, objective 2, activity (c))
• Integrate pollution and waste management into regional, national and sub-national regulations and plans to prevent ecosystem pollution and degradation, and reduce threats to wild animals, including poisoning of wildlife caused by use of pesticides, poison bait, veterinary pharmaceutical treatments, lead in ammunition and fishing weights and light pollution and pollution in the marine environment from marine debris, noise and unexploded ordinance; (Convention on Migratory Species (CBD/SBI/3/6/Add.3, 16 February 2021); VIII/1, annex, priority action 7.2.1.2; XIII/11, annex II, para. 5.1(c); VI/22, annex, programme element 1, goal 2, objective 2, activity (d))
• Implement comprehensive watershed and coastal water quality management plans that reduce all major types of pollution, especially those causing eutrophication, sublethal effects on corals, lower seawater pH or other negative impacts, and implement watershed management policies that include reforestation; erosion control; runoff reduction; sustainable agriculture and mining; reduction of pesticides, herbicides, fertilizer and other agrochemical use, and wastewater management and treatment, prioritizing the reduction of nutrient and sediment pollution from watersheds, and the management of pollution “hotspots” (areas that produce the highest pollution loads); (XII/23, annex, para. 8.2b-d)
• Develop and implement national approaches to liability and redress measures, incorporating the polluter pays principle or other appropriate mechanisms in relation to damages to protected areas; (VII/28, annex, goal 1.5)

Monitoring

• Identify and assess local and long-range pollution (air, water and soil) and take appropriate measures to prevent and mitigate the impacts; (VII/27, annex, action 1.1.8; goal 3.2)
• Support monitoring programmes that help evaluate the impacts of air, soil and water pollution on biodiversity and ecosystems, and increase the understanding of the impact of pollution, e.g., acidification and eutrophication, and other pollutants (such as mercury and cyanide) on biodiversity at genetic, species, ecosystem and landscape levels; (VI/22, annex, programme element 1, goal 2, objective 2, activity (a) and (b))
• Exchange information on the impact of pollution such as acidification and eutrophication related to deforestation and forest degradation on forest biodiversity and increase efforts to reduce their negative impacts; (IX/5, para. 2(f))

Agricultural Inputs

• Implement an appropriate mix of regulatory and incentive measures aligned with national biodiversity objectives to increase the efficiency of use of fertilizer and pesticides and to avoid their inappropriate use; (XIII/3, para. 32)
• Promote and support, as appropriate, sustainable agricultural production, through the enhanced use of a diverse range of well-adapted crops and livestock, and their varieties and breeds, and of associated biodiversity in agricultural systems, including pollinators, pest-control organisms and soil organisms that promote nutrient cycling, thereby reducing the need for or replacing chemical inputs; (XIII/3, para. 30)

Nutrients

• Increase actions to reduce pollution, including from excess nutrients, especially nitrogen deposition; (14/1, para. 14(f); IX/1, para. 40)
• Implement measures to reduce nutrient loading and prevent eutrophication caused by, inter alia, wastewater and agricultural run-off and infiltration, and promote appropriate agricultural techniques, including organic and sustainable agriculture, to prevent unnatural run-off and eutrophication impacts; (X/34, para. 14; VIII/1, annex, priority action 7.2.3)
• Ensure that no ocean fertilization takes place, reaffirming the precautionary approach; (X/29, para. 58, 13(e))
• Enhance regional and international cooperation with a view to addressing transboundary pollution that has significant impacts on island ecosystems, including by reducing discharges from land-based sources, particularly with respect to excess nutrient inputs; (XI/15, para. 3(b); VII/27, annex, action 2.3.4)

Pesticide

• Develop and implement national and as appropriate regional pesticide risk reduction strategies and avoid or reduce the use of pesticides harmful for pollinators, for example, by adopting Integrated Pest Management practices and biocontrol, taking into account the International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization; (XIII/15, para. 7(j))
• Improve, as appropriate, risk assessment procedures for pesticides and, where necessary, for living modified organisms to better take into account possible impacts, including sublethal and indirect effects, on both wild and managed pollinators, including, inter alia, a wider range of pollinator taxa, beyond honeybees and managed bumblebees, and toxicological studies, in risk assessment protocols, applying the precautionary approach in line with the preamble of the Convention, consistent with international obligations and taking into account climate variations and cumulative effects; (XIII/15, para. 7(m))
• Improve pesticide application practices, including technologies to reduce drift, to reduce exposure of pollinators, where pesticides pose a risk to pollinators, and avoid or minimize the synergistic effects of pesticides with other drivers that have been proven to pose serious or irreversible harm to pollinators; (XIII/15, para. 7(k), 7(n))
• Remove or reduce perverse incentives causing the overuse of pesticides; (XIII/15, para. 7(q))
• Promote and share further research to address gaps in knowledge regarding potential impacts of pesticides, in particular neonicotinoids and other systemic pesticides, taking into account their possible cumulative effects, on pollinator; (XIII/15, para. 7(x))

Aquatic Pollution

• Avoid, minimize and mitigate the impacts of marine debris, in particular plastic pollution, on marine and coastal biodiversity and habitats, and consider, where appropriate, extended producer responsibility for providing response measures where there is damage or sufficient likelihood of damage to marine and coastal biodiversity and habitats from marine debris; (XIII/10, para. 6-7; 14/10, para. 1(a))
• Identify all sources of significant land-based and sea-based pollutants affecting coral reefs and set up comprehensive national/local water quality monitoring programmes; (XII/23, annex, para. 8.2a)
• Avoid, minimize and mitigate land-based and sea-based pollution, deoxygenation and introduction of invasive alien species through ballast water and biofouling to prevent adverse impacts on cold-water ecosystems and species; (XIII/11, annex II, para. 5.2(b))
• Develop and implement measures, policies and instruments to prevent the discard, disposal, loss or abandonment of any persistent, manufactured or processed solid material in the marine and coastal environment; (XIII/10, para. 8)
• Develop and enforce instruments to control ship-source pollution, and prepare contingency plans for oil spills. (VIII/1, annex, priority action 7.2.1.6)
• Implement best practice standards for marinas, docks, mariculture, tourism or recreational operations conducted in coral reefs or adjacent environments. (XII/23, annex, para. 8.2e)
• Avoid, minimize and mitigate the significant adverse impacts of anthropogenic underwater noise on marine and coastal biodiversity (XIII/10, para. 2)
• Identify and remove the sources, or reduce the impacts, of water pollution (chemical, thermal, microbiological or physical) on the biological diversity of inland waters; (VII/4, annex, para. 1.1.3)
• Develop and implement watershed integrated management to prevent siltation and run-off impacts on island coastal ecosystems, and ensure that infrastructure developments include measures to mitigate run-off and siltation; (VIII/1, annex, priority action 7.2.2)

Waste Management

• Develop and implement pollution and waste management plans, including contingency plans, with special attention to solid and hazardous waste; (VIII/1, annex, priority action 7.2.1, 7.2.1.5)
• Develop effective methods for effluent and waste control, including wastewater treatment plants and other appropriate systems for management of human waste; (VIII/1, annex, priority action 7.2.1.3; VII/5, para. 48(c))
• Develop and promote specific guidelines and responsible codes for all tourism activities, including waste generation and disposal; (VIII/1, annex, priority action 4.2.5.2)
• Enhance and promote public awareness and action to minimize, manage and recycle waste, including appropriate facilities; (VIII/1, annex, priority action 7.2.1.4 and 11.3.3.9)

Financial support of the Global Environment Facility

Food Systems

Clean and Healthy Oceans

Eliminating Hazardous Chemicals from Supply Chains

Circular Solutions to Plastic Pollution

IWFA: Objective One

CWFA: Objectives One and Three
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, Türkiye, 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 Türkiye 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, Türkiye, 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, Türkiye, 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, Türkiye, 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, Türkiye, Regional European Bank for Reconstruction and Development $13,761,468

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