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Detail of GEF Project #1652
| GEF Project ID | 1652 |
| Funding Source | GEF Trust Fund |
| Project Name | Enabling activities to facilitate early action on the implementation of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Lao People’s Democratic Republic |
| Country | Lao PDR |
| Region | Asia and the Pacific |
| Focal Area | POPs |
| Operational Program | 14 |
| Approval Date | 2002-04-19 |
| GEF Agency Approval Date | 2002-06-20 |
| Project Completion Date | 2007-09-30 |
| Project Status | Project Closure |
| GEF Agency | UNIDO |
| Executing Agency | Environment Research Institute, State Technology and Environment Agency |
| Description | The objective of this enabling activities proposal is to strengthen national capacity and enhance knowledge and understanding amongst decision-makers, managers, the industry, NGOs and the public at large on POPs to develop and formulate a National Implementation Plan (NIP). By achieving this objective Lao PDR will meet the obligations of the Stockholm Convention and will be enabled to manage the elimination of POPs. Specifically, the project will: (i)Allow Lao PDR to meet its reporting obligations under the Stockholm Convention; (ii)Prepare the ground for the implementation of the Stockholm Convention in Lao PDR; (iii)Strengthen national capacity to manage POPs and chemicals management capacity in general; (iv)Maximize government commitment and facilitate ratification of the Stockholm Convention. |
| Implementation Status | Project completed. |
| GEF Project Grant | 497,850 USD |
| GEF Grant | 497,850 USD |
| Project Cost | 497,850 USD |
| GEF Agency Fees | 54,000 USD |
| GEF Project (CEO Endo.) | 497,850 USD |
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