GEF

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The GEF Experience with POPs and Sound Chemicals
Management
Caribbean WS on SAICM and related instruments,
Barbados, 10-13 Mar 2009
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Structure of this presentation

• Background to the GEF and project approval
  process
• Overview of programs related to chemicals POPs
• Synergies and sound chemicals management
• GEF-5

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• Background to the GEF and project approval
  process

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ABOUT THE GEF

• Worlds largest funder of projects in developing
  countries to protect the global environment while
  supporting sustainable development
• Established in 1991 before Rio as a network
  organization
• 177 member countries
• 10 GEF Agencies UNDP, UNEP, World Bank, FAO,
  UNIDO, International Fund for Agriculture
  Development ( IFAD), African Development Bank
  (AfDB), Asian Development Bank (ADB) European
  Bank for Reconstruction and Development,
  Inter-American Development Bank.

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ABOUT THE GEF

• Secretariat
• Independent Evaluation Office
• Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP)
• Assembly (Every 4 years) overall policies and
  evaluation
• Council (Twice per year) 32 members(18
  representing recipient countries, 14 representing
  donor countries) responsible for approving
  operational policies and programs
• Financial mechanism for Conventions on
  Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification,
  and Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).

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GEF Governance Framework
Strategic Guidance
Operations
Action
STAP

• GEF Agencies
• UNDP
• UNEP
• World Bank
• ADB
• AFDB
• EBRD
• IDB
• FAO
• IFAD
• UNIDO

GEF Assembly Countries Political FPs
Projects Countries Operational FPs, Convention
FPs, other govt agencies, civil society
GEF Council Countries Council Members/
Constituencies
GEF Secretariat
Conventions Countries Convention FPs
Evaluation Office
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GEF-4 Reforms Simplified Project Approval
Process

• Main Features
• Consolidation of steps in project cycle
• Reduction in documentation requirements
• See an example of a recently approved project
  (Project Identification Form) to judge in
  practice what the minimum level of documentation
  now required is

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• Overview of programs related to chemicals POPs

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Chemicals Management Across the GEF focal areas

• Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
• Ozone layer depletion (ODS)
• International Waters (PTS and other LBS)
• Cross-cutting strategy for Sound Chemicals
  Management (SCM)
• Collaboration with International Waters (IW),
  Land Degradation (LD), Biodiversity (BD), and
  Climate Change (CC) focal areas

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POPs Programming

• 2001-2006 (GEF-3) ?218m (co-financing 153m)
• GEF-4 allocation 300m
• As of October 2008, cumulative allocation since
  adoption of the SC of 360m leveraging 440m
  co-financing
• Since 2001 WB share 29, followed by UNDP,
  UNIDO, UNEP, FAO

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POPs Key Issues

• Limited ability to deal with POPs in developing
  countries due to lack of basic chemicals
  management capacities
• 135 countries prepared a National Implementation
  Plan (NIP), assessing and prioritizing POPs
  issues now ready for NIP implementation
• GEF-4 shift towards NIP implementation
• GEF-5? towards a more integrated life-cycle-based
  approach?

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POPs Strategic Objective

• Long-term Protect human health and the
  environment by assisting countries to reduce and
  eliminate production, use and releases of POPs,
  and consequentially contribute generally to
  capacity development for the sound management of
  chemicals
• Mid-term assist eligible countries to implement
  their obligations under the SC

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POPs GEF-4 Expected Impacts

• Strengthening countries POPs and general
  chemicals management capacity
• Environmentally sound disposal of obsolete
  pesticides hazardous to human health and the
  environment
• Halt to PCB-caused local and global environment
  contamination through their phase out and disposal

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POPs GEF-4 Expected Impacts

• Decreased risk of POPs-caused adverse health
  effects among communities living in close
  proximity to POPs waste disposed of or contained
• Establishment of the future SC implementation
  basis through demonstrations of innovative
  alternative products, best practices, and
  environmentally sound POPs generation, use or
  release processes

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POPs GEF-4 Strategic Program 1

• Strengthening Capacity for NIP Development
  and Implementation
• Resources 40
• e.g. following NIP priorities strengthening
  of regulatory framework
• Outcome Countries have capacity to implement
  measures to meet obligations under the SC thus
  improving their general capacity to achieve the
  sound management of chemicals

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POPs GEF-4 Strategic Program 2

• Partnering in Investments for NIP
  Implementation
• Resources 45
• e.g. based on NIP priorities phase-out and
  disposal of PCBs / non-POPs alternative products
  and practices / destruction of pesticides wastes
• Outcome Sustainably reduced production, use
  and release of POPs ? reduced environmental and
  health risks from POPs

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POPs GEF-4 Strategic Program 3

• Partnering for Demonstration of Feasible,
  Innovative Technologies and Best Practices for
  POPs Reduction and Substitution
• Resources 15
• e.g. identification of alternative products
  or practices to DDT, or POPs termiticides /
  demonstration of destruction technologies /
  demonstration of BAT-BEP/ targeted research
• Outcome Effective alternative products,
  practices or techniques that avoid POPs
  production/use/release demonstrated / in
  particular DDT

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Example of POPs Projects

• Destruction and prevention of future stocks of
  obsolete pesticides, for example in Eritrea and
  Vietnam plans for the Caribbean region
• General POPs projects (incl. e.g., regulation,
  pesticides, PCBs) with QSP co-financing, incl.
  Honduras, Nicaragua
• Phase-out and destruction of PCBs in electrical
  equipment in a number of countries, incl. Brazil,
  Kyrgyzstan
• Development of strategies, and pilot
  demonstrations in specific sectors, to reduce
  releases of dioxins
• Project to support development of PRTRs for POPs
  reporting and information dissemination in 13
  countries, with QSP co-financing
• Demonstration of alternatives to DDT to fight
  malaria carrying mosquitoes, including Central
  America, Pacific SIDS.

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• Synergies and
• sound chemicals management

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Promoting synergies in implementing the POPs
Convention

• WHY?
• Fragmentation / development effectiveness.
• Risk for Governments to take partially informed /
  wrong decisions.
• Missed opportunities.
• Recognition that SC does not come in a desert
  Both GEF NIP guidelines and initial 2002 GEF POPs
  program explicitly refer to need to seek
  synergies and coordination with related chemicals
  conventions / agreements
• Support to development of National Profile as a
  basis for POPs NIP.

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SCM Across Focal Areas

• Goal Contribute to Agenda 21 implementation and
  JPOI through activities that promote SMC and
  bring Global Environment Benefits to the focal
  areas, to protect human health and the
  environment
• Mid-term promote sound management of chemicals
  practices in all relevant aspects of GEF programs
  and to contribute to the overall objective of
  the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals
  Management

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SCM Across Focal Areas Strategic Programs

• Sound chemicals management practices integrated
  in BD, CC, IW, and LD focal area projects
• GEF interventions to support POPs elimination,
  ODS phase-out, and PTS management, are
  sustainable because build upon and strengthen
  general capacity of recipient countries for sound
  chemicals management

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GEF-5

• Strategy revision process launched with outside
  experts from China, Denmark, Uruguay, U.S., SC
  and Multilateral Fund, STAP.
• Replenishment process underway first meeting
  March 17-18 2009. Will run through 2009 with view
  to be completed early 2010 for smooth transition
  to GEF-5 in July 2010.
• Opportunity to comment on GEF-5 strategies and
  other replenishment documents through your
  Council member. Documents are publicly available
  at www.TheGEF.org
• POPs and Chemicals
• Need for significant resources to implement SC
  provisions, incl BAT/BEP. SC needs assessment
  provides multi-billion figures.
• Tap potential synergies with climate mitigation
  cluster in particular.
• Support activities strengthening chemicals
  management in other focal areas and joint
  projects, in particular with International
  Waters.
• Proposal for an integrated life-cycle approach
  that would allow to respond to related agreements
  in a synergetic manner.

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Summary

• Transparent and shared governance
• GEF-4 reforms facilitating access
• Use Stockholm Convention to advance national
  structures for chemicals management
• GEF-5 is being decided make your voice heard!

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THANK YOU!

• Contact Information
• Lgranier_at_theGEF.org
• ISow_at_theGEF.org
• Agency contacts at HQ, regional, or country
  office
• Know your national focal points!
• http//www.thegef.org/interior.aspx?id212