Resource Mobilization Capacity Building

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Resource Mobilization Capacity Building
OEWG SIDE EVENT 7 April, 2006
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Presentation

• Overview of Resource Mobilization programme and
  activities

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Resource Mobilization

• Why?
• Current budget lacks sufficient resources to
  implement decisions of the Parties and the for
  the Strategic Plan of the Convention
• Awareness about the Convention or its benefits is
  not always evident nationally, regionally or
  internationally
• Expertise in mobilizing resources can be
  challenging as many parties are located in
  Environment (technical) Ministries and it may not
  be their area of expertise

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Resource Mobilization

• Key Objectives
• To enhance
• Financial Resources for Projects and Activities
• Human Resources
• Technical Resources
• Raise awareness with financial institutions and
  Aid agencies, civil society and others
• Assist Parties build capacities to mobilize
  resources for projects and activities for
  implementing the Convention

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Resource Mobilization

• Current programme is to consider all financing
  mechanisms possible as an overall strategy
• Identify technical resources that can be
  transferred, primarily through the partnership
  programme
• Tap human resources and expertise worldwide
  through partnerships and other programmes
• Build capacities, for example, by providing
  training and assistance to Regional and
  Coordinating Centers on resource mobilization,
  access to funding, procedures, etc.

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Resource Mobilization

• Create tools to ameliorate fundraising actions at
  regional and national level, e.g. organising a
  package of projects, leaflets and brochures about
  activities and the Convention
• Identify linkages and tools to enhance access to
  Official Development Aid and other multi-lateral
  financing
• Create a web network of funding sources
  (ameliorate the current resource mobilization web
  site on the Basel Web site)

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Raising Awareness

• Raise awareness about the Convention and how it
  fits in the overall development agenda
• Raise awareness with policy makers and the public
  on hazardous waste and their impacts on human
  health and the environment
• Improving the understanding of the linkages
  between hazardous and other wastes and
  socio-economic development, urbanization, etc.,
  as a base for better integration of ESM as a way
  to meet MDGs and other international goals and
  agreements

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Regional Centres

• Play an important role in resource mobilization
• Important focal point of information in the
  Region
• Established as mechanisms to facilitate and
  sustain the implementation of the Basel
  Convention
• Important component of the resource mobilization
  strategy

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Africa and West Asia 1 Basel Convention
Regional Centre for the Arab States in Egypt 2
Basel Convention Regional Co-ordinating Centre in
Nigeria 3 Basel Convention Regional Centre in
Senegal 4 Basel Convention Regional Centre in
South Africa 5 Basel Convention Regional Centre
in Tehran
Central and Eastern Europe 9 Basel Convention
Regional Centre in the Russian
Federation 10 Basel Convention Regional Centre in
Slovakia
Latin America and the Caribbean 11 Basel
Convention Regional Centre in Argentina 12 Basel
Convention Regional Centre in El Salvador 13
Basel Convention Regional Centre in Trinidad
and Tobago 14 Basel Convention Coordinating
Centre for Training and Technology Transfer
for Latin America and Caribbean region in
Uruguay
Asia and Pacific Region 6 Basel Convention
Regional Centre in China 7 Basel Convention
Regional Centre in Indonesia 8 Pacific Regional
Centre for Training and Technology Transfer
for the Joint Implementation of the Basel and
Waigani Conventions in the South Pacific region
BASEL CONVENTION REGIONAL CENTRES
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FURTHER INFORMATION
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