Regional Air Pollution in Developing Countries RAPIDC

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Regional Air Pollution in Developing Countries
(RAPIDC)
Funded by the Swedish International Development
Co-operation Agency (Sida)
Co-ordinated by the Stockholm Environment
Institute (SEI)
Gary Haq, SEI - gh7_at_york.ac.uk
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• advancement of the knowledge base

Household
Urban
Peri-urban
Regional
Knowledge Required by Policy Makers
Impacts of Air Pollution at Different Scales
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• (b) capacity building
• All activities have a capacity building element
  and an emphasis on regional ownership
• Swedish, international and regional expertise is
  utilized in training developing country personnel
  in
• Preparation of regional emission inventories
• Monitoring air pollution
• Atmospheric transfer modelling
• Assessment of impacts
• Mitigation options and best practice

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• (c) policy advocacy
• RAPIDC has assisted in organising regional
  multi-stakeholder policy dialogues in South Asia
  and southern Africa resulting in the Malé
  Declaration and draft Maputo Declaration
• All RAPIDC activities are linked to the policy
  process in each region so relevant information is
  fed into the policy cycle via
• Ministerial level meetings
• National and regional multi-stakeholder dialogues
  including NGOs
• Meetings of network members in the regions which
  include government representatives
• Dissemination of relevant information

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(d) regional exchange and coordination e.g. The
Malé Declaration Implementation
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RAPIDC Information Dissemination
RAPIDC Publications
Networks
Assessment Methodologies
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Future Development of RAPIDC

• Sida wish to continue funding RAPIDC, at least
  for 3 more years
• SEI have sent in a tender for a planning phase
  of 3 months in
• 2004 which has been accepted
• The planning phase will develop a plan based on
  the needs in Asia
• and Africa (especially South Asia and southern
  Africa) linked with
• expertise available for capacity building
• The next phase will transfer ownership of RAPIDC
  to partners
• representing the core focus regions and
  scientists involved in networks

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Remember to visit
www.rapidc.org