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Detail of GEF Project #4782
| GEF Project ID | 4782 |
| Funding Source | GEF Trust Fund |
| Project Name | Strengthening POPs Management Capacities and Demonstration of PCB Destruction at the Energy Sector |
| Country | Lao PDR |
| Region | Asia and the Pacific |
| Focal Area | POPs |
| PIF Approval Date | 2012-04-11 |
| PPG Approval Date | 2012-09-06 |
| Approval Date | 2012-06-07 |
| Project Status | Council Approved |
| GEF Agency | UNIDO |
| Executing Agency | Water Resource and Management Administration (WREA), Electric Du Lao (EDL) |
| Description | The overall objective of the project is to facilitate the implementation of the SC on POPs in respect of sound management of PCB-containing equipment and wastes, including development of specific legislations, development and implementation of environmentally sound management practices for PCBs contaminated equipment and wastes, inventorying, testing and labeling of at least 1000 electrical equipment, and establishing an information database, disposal/decontamination of 250 tones of transformers and 20 tones of PCB contaminated soil. Create capacities and develop the elimination strategy and the basic socio-economic tool for contamination prevention and mitigation measures, establishing of institutional/laboratory capacity, awareness raising. Incorporation of the sound PCB management measures in the national coordination mechanism established for the implementation of the Stockholm Convention. |
| PPG Amount | 58,000 USD |
| GEF Project Grant | 1,400,000 USD |
| GEF Grant | 1,458,000 USD |
| Cofinancing Total | 5,600,000 USD |
| Project Cost | 7,058,000 USD |
| GEF Agency Fees | 140,000 USD |
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