Integrating Mainstreaming Sound Management of Chemicals into National Development Planning

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Integrating (Mainstreaming)Sound Management of
Chemicals into National Development Planning

• United Nations Development Programme
• Energy and Environment Group
• Presentation At The
• Global Workshop on National SAICM Implementation
• June 2006, Geneva

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UNDPs Links to Workshop Questions

• Main workshop questions addressed by UNDPs
  SAICM-related activities
• How can SAICM implementation be integrated into
  national development planning processes?
• How can involvement of relevant government
  sectors in national SAICM implementation be
  ensured and what are effective means of
  inter-ministerial co-ordination?
• How can national implementation of SAICM and
  implementation of international chemicals and
  waste management agreements be best linked?
• What are donor perspectives (and possible
  expectations) concerning national governance
  frameworks for SAICM implementation?

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UNDP and Sound Management of Chemicals

• Sound management of chemicals is essential to
  sustainable development and to achieve the MDGs -
  SAICM High Level Declaration
• UNDPs SMC activities are extensive consistent
  with core mandate and capacities
• An implementing agency for the Multilateral Fund
  for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol
• An implementing agency for the Global Environment
  Facility
• Administering the GEFs Small Grant Programme on
  behalf of GEF Implementing Agencies
• Actively participating in international and
  national processes to support and/or help
  coordinate SMC initiatives, including SAICM and
  the IOMC

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UNDP and Sound Chemicals Management

• Phase out of Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS)
  under the Montreal Protocol
• Reduction and elimination of releases of
  Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) under the
  Stockholm Convention
• Reduction and prevention of chemical pollution of
  lakes, rivers, groundwater, coasts and oceans
• Other chemical management activities
• Waste management
• Industrial pollution control
• Reducing pesticide use
• Chemicals policy reform

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Key Contributions UNDP Will Make To SAICM
Implementation

• Mainstreaming sound management of chemicals into
  national development planning processes
• Assisting countries to build their foundational
  capacities for SAICM to ensure that chemicals are
  a benefit rather than a cost to development
• Helping countries to build capacities to
  formulate and implement SMC policies that are
  integrated across sectors to be consistent with
  and foster sustainable forms of development
  including to achieve the MDGs
• Promoting partnerships for SAICM implementation
  to advance the development planning priorities of
  client countries
• Support for proposal preparations
• Co-funding opportunities and resource
  mobilization support
• Partnerships with other involved agencies

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Mainstreaming SMC into National Development
Planning Processes

• UNDP is developing guidance for country/regional
  offices and client country governments on
  Mainstreaming SMC into Development Planning
  Processes Why?
• UNDPs vital entry points central role in
  development planning processes, including Chair
  of the UN Development Group
• Poverty Reduction Strategic Papers (PRSPs)
• National Sustainable Development Strategies
• MDG-Based National Plans and Indicators
• United Nations Development Assistance Framework
  (UNDAF)
• Presence in 166 countries (Country and Liaison
  offices), Regional Bureaus, Regional Centres, and
  extensive networks with national development
  planning and finance agencies
• UNDP recognizes that these capacities supported
  by governments must be deployed effectively,
  including in partnerships with other agencies, if
  SMC is to be advanced in development planning
  consistent with SAICM

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Draft Contents of the SMC Mainstreaming Guide
Preface PART I Chapter 1. Introduction 1.0 Purpose
of the guide 1.1 Sound management of
chemicals 1.2 Chemicals production and
categorization Chapter 2. SMC and its
implications for MDG-based national development
priorities 2.0 SMC and UN Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) Chapter 3. SMC linkages to sector
strategies and plans 3.0 SMC can benefit from a
cross-sectoral coordinating mechanism 3.1 SMCs
synergies with sector-based development Chapter
4. Building capacity for SMC 4.0 More nations
will be seeking capacity building and financial
support for SMC 4.1 Industrializing nationskey
players in international and regional chemicals
trade 4.2 Developing nation capacity for
SMC 4.3 Sound management of chemicals is gaining
prominence internationally PART II A stepped
approach for mainstreaming sound management of
chemicals  
Step 1 Mapping and baseline Step 2
Diagnostics Step 3 Stakeholder consultation and
awareness raising Step 4 Identifying
opportunities and priorities for SMC Step 5
Policy and legislative Framework Step 6 SMC
mainstreaming Step 7 Monitoring and Assessment 
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Relevance to other decision making and planning
processes nationally and internationally
Step 7 Monitoring Assessment Development
Application of Indicators
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Mainstreaming SMC Into National Development
Planning Processes

• Effective integration of SMC and SAICM objectives
  into development planning processes is key for
  continued development
• identify positive and negative effects of
  chemicals for sustainable development and the
  MDGs
• Mainstreaming is critical to attracting national
  and international support for SMC and related
  issues (hazardous wastes)
• National development plans define priorities for
  national budgets and donor support
• Much more assistance flows through official
  development assistance channels than through
  dedicated environmental funds
• this will be the case for the foreseeable future
  and SMC must attract a larger share of ODA if
  SAICM objectives are to be achieved
• UNDP guidance document will be completed in 2006
  to assist our client countries and UNDP offices
  in this key aspect of SAICM
• Pilot tests on mainstreaming SMC into development
  plans will be undertaken with willing countries
  as soon as available financial resources permit
  mobilizing resources is ongoing

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Opportunity Presented by National SAICM Pilot
Projects

• Opportunity to integrate the SMC mainstreaming
  aspects into the National SAICM Pilot Projects
  should not forgo this opportunity
• One key value of the pilot projects will be to
  help demonstrate the logical extension of the
  development of integrated chemicals management
  programmes into national development plans and
  priorities (mainstreaming)
• This will be consistent with the strategic
  priorities of SAICM and will set examples/lessons
  learned for countries that will also undertake
  these activities as resources permit in the near
  future
• UNDP will also seek to support other countries in
  their SMC mainstreaming activities as resources
  permit and would be willing to hold discussions
  in this regard during this workshop