The general objective of this project is to assess the national capacities to manage the global environment in Niger.

Within the overall objective of the Stockholm Convention, which is to protect human health and the environment from POPs, the project will: i. Prepare the ground for ratification and implementation of the Convention in Nauru; ii. Assist Nauru in meeting its reporting and other obligations under the Convention; iii. Strengthen Nauru’s national capacity to manage POPs and chemicals generally.

Within the overall objective of the Stockholm Convention, which is to protect human health and the environment from POPs, the project will: i. Prepare the ground for implementation of the Convention in Kyrgyzstan; ii. Assist Kyrgyzstan in meeting its reporting and other obligations under the Convention; and iii. Strengthen Kyrgyzstan’s national capacity to manage POPs and chemicals generally.

The purpose of the NCSA project is to develop a comprehensive strategy on capacity building to address national and international environmental management issues across three thematic areas -– climate change, biological diversity, and land degradation. The project will also seek to explore related capacity needs within and across the three thematic areas using a stakeholder consultative approach.

Within the overall objective of the Stockholm Convention, which is to protect human health and the environment from POPs, the project will: i. Prepare the ground for implementation of the Convention in Argentina; ii. Assist Argentina in meeting its reporting and other obligations under the Convention; and iii. Strengthen Argentina’s national capacity to manage POPs and chemicals in general.

The objective of the National Capacity Needs Self-Assessment (NCSA) is to identify country level priorities and needs for capacity building to address global environmental issues, in particular biological diversity, climate change, and land degradation, and the synergies between them, with the aim of catalyzing domestic and/or externally assisted action to meet those needs in a coordinated and planned manner.

The primary objective of the Fiji NCSA is to carry out an assessment of local capacity to address global and national environmental issues and concerns, and to develop a plan for implementation of key activities to achieve capacity building needs as identified through the assessment, particularly those relating to the CBD, UNFCCC and UNCCD. This will be achieved through a series of internal self-assessments to be carried out by the stakeholders themselves to assess the extent of current capacity to meet their respective environmental responsibilities and to determine future needs.