BASEL CONVENTION

1
BASEL CONVENTION

• RESOURCE MOBILISATION TRAINING WORKSHOP 4 Dec
  2006
• Recapitulation of first day.

2
National Challenge

• Need for Strategic Plan for Waste and Hazardous
  Wastes
• Need for high level environment board to oversee
  process and champion the conclusions
• Need for ensuring that waste is highlighted in
  PRSPs and National Plans

3
Getting waste into PRSPs

• Arguments for many countries are similar, so that
  generic text could be developed presenting the
  persuasive case stressing linkages with poverty,
  health etc
• Ivory Coast incident still in peoples minds, so
  now is an opportune time
• Need to give more support to PR and ensuring that
  stories are fed to the media

4
Bilateral aid

• Overall levels increasing
• Direct budget support increasing
• Sector wide support increasing
• Support to projects and institutions outside
  national plans and PRSPs decreasing

5
Potential funding sources

• National Budget
• National Environment Funds
• Funds and Foundations (Gates, Ford etc.)
• Corporate sector (possible involvement through
  partnership programmes, but not seen as major
  donor)
• Multilateral sources (we will discuss later today.

6
Not covered to date

• Strategic Planning process
• National Environment Funds
• Human rights??

7
Logic of day 2

• Finish discussions on sources of funding
• Focus on GEF
• Project development and management
• Selection of three projects to further develop
• Sorting into three work groups