( This review should be read along with the old review on file for past actions).

The ultimate goal of this intervention is to create the appropriate technical and institutional enabling environment in Morocco to promote a multi-functional forest management approach that secures long-term ecosystem integrity and services and sustain rural livelihoods.

The objective of the project is to identify means to support the Dominican Republic’s capacity to fulfill its obligations in the context of the Stockholm Convention, including the preparation of a National Implementation Plan focused on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), that will more widely cover aspects important to the safe and environmentally sound management of chemicals and wastes, as called for in Chapters 19 and 20 of Agenda 21.

In the framework of the Stockholm Convention which aims to protect human health and the environment from POPs, the project will: i) establish the basis for implementing the Convention in El Salvador; ii) assist El Salvador in fulfilling its data declaration and other reporting obligations under the Convention; iii) reinforce El Salvador's national capacity to manage POPs and hazardous chemicals in general.

The objective of the project is to identify means to support Honduras’ own sustained capacity to fulfill its obligations in the context of the Stockholm Convention, including the preparation of a National Implementation Plan focused on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), that will more widely cover aspects important to the safe and environmentally sound management of chemicals and wastes, as called for in Chapters 19 and 20 of Agenda 21.

The objective of the project is to identify means to support Suriname‘s own sustained capacity to fulfill its obligations in the context of the Stockholm Convention, including the preparation of a National Implementation Plan focused on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), that will more widely cover aspects important to the safe and environmentally sound management of chemicals and wastes, as called for in Chapters 19 and 20 of Agenda 21.

The objective of the project is to identify means to support Belize’s own sustained capacity to fulfill its obligations in the context of the Stockholm Convention, including the preparation of a National Implementation Plan focused on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), that will more widely cover aspects important to the safe and environmentally sound management of chemicals and wastes.

Least Developed Countries that are receiving GEF funding for NIP development are required to develop action plans on specific Stockholm Convention-related issues. Skills building/training on action plan development, combined with concrete follow-up activities will assist least developed countries to have the necessary tools to fully plan for and document the costed interventions necessary for implementation of the Convention.

This is the second phase of the global programme to demonstrate and promote alternative non-combustion technologies for use in the destruction of obsolete Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) stockpiles.

The project’s primary goal is to carry out in-depth surveys of HCFC consumption and, where applicable, production in Article 2 countries with economies in transition (CEITs) in Europe and Central Asia (specifically Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and the Ukraine), and identify needs for further activities to assist these countries to remain in compliance with their Montreal Protocol obligations.