IDENTIFYING CRITICAL ISSUES

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IDENTIFYING CRITICAL ISSUES

• Session B1

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2. Party responsibilities w.r.t. Basel

• Establish appropriate institutional legal
  framework
• Prepare appropriate strategy/plan
• Implement strategy/plan

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3. Programme of Action agreed by African Parties
(1998)

• Creating awareness in policy makers, decision
  takers and general public
• Developing national plans for ESM
• Enhancing knowledge and know-how for those
  directly involved
• Improving enforcement capabilities of States
• Nurturing regional efforts to prevent and monitor
  illegal traffic
• Involving all stakeholders in implementing the
  Programme of Action

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4. Projects agreed by African Parties (1998)

• Capacity building to strengthen competent
  authorities and establish information units in
  contracting Parties.
• Improving legal, institutional and regulatory
  capacity
• Preparing National inventories of hazardous waste

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5. Basel Convention Strategic Plan identifies
priority waste streams

• Electrical and electronic wastes
• Used lead-acid batteries
• Used oils
• POPs wastes including obsolete pesticide stocks,
  PCBs, dioxins furans
• Biomedical and health-care wastes
• Household wastes mixed with hazardous wastes
• By-products from the dismantling of ships.

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6. Cause-effect relations in Arabic speaking
countries Causes -

• Inadequate legislation
• Incomplete administrative structures mechanisms
• Lack of control procedures
• Fragmented waste management strategies
• Incomplete (or no) hazardous waste inventories
• Inability to treat hazardous waste in
  environmentally sound manner
• Insufficient manpower and training

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7. Needs of Arabic speaking countries

• Guidance in setting up hazardous waste criteria
• Assistance on designing inventories and managing
  the data
• Guidance in drafting legislation
• Assistance to develop documentation systems
• Information exchange on best practice
• Information exchange on minimisation cleaner
  production.

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8. Other potential projects

• National Strategic Plan Preparation for HWM
• HWM Knowledge management programme for Anglophone
  African countries
• Capacity building support for African
  institutions working in HWM
• Capture of greenhouse gases from landfills for
  power generation
• Use of organic wastes as bio-fuel.

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9. Selected recent BCRC proposals

• Capacity Building for Implementing the Convention
  BCRC Cairo
• Pilot project for environmentally sound disposal
  of PCB contaminated transformer oil
• Demonstration of regional approach to ESM of PCB
  liquid wastes transformers capacitors with
  PCBs
• Promoting EMS of hazardous wastes in Africa, with
  emphasis on health care medical waste
• Assessing E-waste promoting ESM of E-wastes in
  Africa

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10. Capacity Building for Implementing the
Convention BCRC Cairo

• Submitted by BCRC Cairo to Govnt of Finland
• Budget 1.504 million
• Location Arabic speaking countries
• Duration 2 years
• Length of proposal 75 pages

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11. Pilot project for environmentally sound
disposal of PCB contaminated transformer oil

• Submitted by SBC to Canada POPs Fund
• Budget 720,940
• Location Tanzania with participation of all
  Anglophone African countries
• Duration 12 months.
• Length of proposal 8 pages

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12. Demonstration of regional approach to ESM of
PCB liquid wastes transformers capacitors
with PCBs

• Submitted by BCRC Senegal to GEF, UNEP, UNIDO,
  SBC, participating countries.
• Budget 1,360,000
• Location Francophone West Africa
• Duration 18 months
• Length of proposal 60 pages

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13. Promoting EMS of hazardous wastes in Africa,
with emphasis on health care medical waste

• Submitted by BCCC Nigeria to ?
• Budget 673,915
• Location selected Anglophone African countries
• Duration 4 months
• Length of proposal 8 pages

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14. Assessing E-waste promoting ESM of E-wastes
in Africa

• Submitted by BCCC Nigeria to ?
• Budget 692,560
• Duration 6 months
• Location Nigeria, South Africa, Senegal, Egypt
• Length of proposal 9 pages

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15. But what are the REAL needs?

• Lack of
• Trained personnel in all aspects of HWM,
  including enforcement public relations
• Awareness in govnt, industry public
• Good baseline data to prove the case
• Strategic plan
• Budget support.

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16. Which types of project should we work on?

• Strategic planning at national level
• Capacity building
• National inventories
• A waste stream

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17. The cost of mobilising resources

• Preparing and marketing good project proposals is
  expensive, particularly in staff time.
• Costs can be cut using generic proposals adapted
  for the country in question, possibly in
  partnership with other countries in the region.
• Basel Convention Secretariat should provide
  support to facilitate this approach within its
  available resources.

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18. Minimising costs

• Small projects are expensive to administer
• Replicable projects provide significant cost
  reduction so consideration should be given to
  emulating successful projects in other countries.
  (Strategic Plan)