Reduction of Mercury in Products

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Reduction of Mercury in Products

• Action Plans

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Action Plan

• describes the activities to be carried out and
  the related implementation strategies for
  responding to a priority or delivering a
  programme
• Consider country context- cultural, political,
  and administrative systems
• Objectives
• define and put in place the necessary tools for
  implementing the national decisions on reduction
  of mercury use and release from products
• to facilitate the mobilisation of resources from
  national, regional, sub-regional and/or
  international sources for the implementation of a
  chemicals management plan focused on mercury
  reduction
• enable a team to focus on priorities by
  developing a common goal, objectives, activities,
  performance and evaluation indicators

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Strategy, Action Plan, Measures

• Program strategies, action plans, measures
• Strategy is an overall approach
• Action plan is more detailed steps, activities,
  etc
• measure is a particular approach
• All are part of a National Mercury Plan

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Reducing Mercury Use and Release in Products

• May include
• Inventory and reporting
• Public information, awareness and education
• Policy development and legislation
• Technological/engineering improvement
• Institutional arrangements and monitoring
• Waste management (storage and disposal)

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Proposed Steps for Developing an Action Plan

• Establish context and analysis of issue-
  situation, gap and stakeholder analysis
• Formulate objectives
• Identify relevant management options
• (legal, operational, voluntary)
• Establish criteria for evaluation and
  prioritisation
• (e.g. efficiency, affordability,
  practicability)
• Evaluate and select management options to be
  applied
• Develop the Action plan implementation strategy
  (proposed activities outputs responsibilities
  performance indicators resource needs)
• Proposed next steps and follow up

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Context and Analysis of Issue

• Establish current situation and state of
  knowledge in the country with regard to mercury
  in products
• Describe other relevant national, regional,
  sub-regional and international commitments, e.g.
  Rotterdam Convention Basel Convention
  International Code of Conduct Stockholm
  Convention, SAICM
• Identify stakeholders within and outside
  Governments
• Conduct a gap analysis

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Situation Analysis

• Responds to
• What is the present mercury in products situation
  in the country?
• What mercury/chemicals initiatives exist?
• Where do the challenges lie and what
  opportunities exist?
• Allows for a consideration of priorities.
• Includes stakeholder analysis

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Gap Analysis

• Identifies what is missing with respect to
• Legislation and regulatory measures
• Operational measures such as
• Enforcement
• Institutional measures
• Analytical capacity
• Material and human resources

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Setting the Objectives

• Based on the established situation, define the
  necessary outcomes for your action plan SMART
  objectives
• S- specific
• M- measurable
• A- agreed
• R- realistic
• T- time-dependent
• and
• Identify the tools institutional,
  legal/regulatory and operational needed for
  implementing the country decision to reduce
  mercury use and release from products

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Possible Management Options

• Legal and administrative measures, e.g.- bans
  - trade regulations - distribution and use
  restrictions
• Operational measures, e.g.- surveillance
  monitoring programmes
• - conduct of inventory - technological
  requirements - information handling and
  distribution - training education -
  research development - law enforcement and
  control measures
• Voluntary measures by industry sector(s) e.g.
  eco-labelling, substitution and replacement,
  product stewardship

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Criteria for Evaluation and Prioritisation

• For the selection and prioritisation of
  management options - define criteria for
  evaluation and priority setting on the basis of
  specific national needs, circumstances and
  resources (e.g. socio-economic considerations
  available infrastructures affordability)

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Evaluation and Selection of Suitable Management
Options

• evaluate the different options and based on the
  set criteria select the options that are to be
  adopted and developed into an action plan
  implementation strategy for the country.

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Action Plan Implementation Strategy the
foundation for the work

• The strategy to be selected will with adequate
  criteria be adapted to the needs and national
  circumstances. It should inter alia address
• Assignment of responsibilities
• Definition of activities and outputs
• Development of work plan to include budget
• Formulation of implementation performance
  indicators
• Determination of resource needs

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General Objectives
Reduction of Mercury in Products Action Plan
Implementation Strategy
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Steps in Action Planning

• 1. Context and analysis of issue
• 2. Formulation of objectives
• 3. Identification of relevant management options
• 4. Establishing criteria for evaluation and
  prioritization of options
• 5. Evaluation and selection of management options
  at national level
• 6. Development of an action plan implementation
  strategy
• 7. Obtaining commitment