The project objective is to strengthen national capacity and to enhance knowledge and understanding amongst decision makers, managers, the industry, academia, green NGOs and the public at large on POPs to develop and formulate a National Implementation Plan (NIP) pursuant to Article 7 of the Convention.

To reduce the use and releases of PCBs and other POPs to the environment through the development and implementation of a national PCB and POPs pesticides management system to effectively and efficiently assist Armenia to implement the Stockholm Convention by strengthening the institutions, regulations and enforcement and to enhance the capacities for the sound management of POPs at national and local levels.

The project will produce a detailed plan to enable ESEA countries adopt and introduce BAT/BEP strategies to the industrial priority sectors of Annex C at a regional level through partnering on investments and joint ventures among countries sharing similar sector source releases of unintentionally produced persistent organic pollutants (UP-POPs). The project will introduce a systematic tool for the industry to assimilate structured decision making through a criterion route of selection and ranking of clean process design, retrofitting and operations.

The objective of this project is to enhance national technical/analytical capacity to address POPs problem and establish environmentally sound management system for disposal of POPs pesticides and PCBs. Based on the prioritization of the issues articulated in its National Implementation Plan, the Government of Nepal is putting major efforts to address the first three priorities mainly obsolete stocks of POPs pesticides, PCBs and public education/awareness.

To promote the adoption of environment-friendly silvopastoral production systems in Colombia cattle ranching in project areas to improve natural resource management, enhance provision of environmental services (biodiversity, land, carbon and water) and raise the productivity in participating farms.

Project Objective: To establish and operationalize terrestrial PAs in the Dulombi-Boé-Tchetche (DBT) complex and thereby significantly expand and strengthen Guinea-Bissau’s PA system.

To strengthen the necessary policy, legislative and financial instruments as well as the capacity of government and civil society stakeholders in partnership with the oil and gas industry to protect and conserve marine and coastal biodiversity.

The objective of the project is to create capacities and awareness for planning, decision making and regulation, necessary for the application of SLM in Cuba. This project is part of the CPP Cuba "Supporting Implementation of the Cuban National Programme to Combat Desertification and Drought (NPCDD)" approved by Council in GEF-3. Hence the project draws GEF-3 funding from the LD focal area.

To increase resilience and enhance key adaptive capacity to address the additional risks posed by climate change to the water sector in Cape Verde.

This project is part of the CPP Cuba "Supporting Implementation of the Cuban National Programme to Combat Desertification and Drought (NPCDD)" approved by Council in GEF-3. (PMIS #2437) The objective of the project is to maximize program-wide the effectiveness and efficiency of SLM initiatives in Cuba.