Whats New IPEP Projects UpdateS...2006

IPEP has completed or is currently conducting 282 activities in 61 countries: Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Gambia, Ghana, Georgia, Guinea Bissau, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Senegal, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, and Yemen.

New projects this period include: country situation reports in Albania, Lebanon, Mali, and Slovakia; pesticide contamination investigations in Albania, sampling breast milk for POPs pesticides in Georgia, the impact of DDT and DDE in the Russian Arctic,

and the effect of pesticide dumps in Uzbekistan; awareness-raising projects on zero waste in Bulgaria and Slovakia, POPs impacts in Congo, NIP stakeholders in Guinea Bissau, farmer communities in India, government and NGOs in Kyrgyzstan, focus on PCBs in Sri Lanka, and coastal areas in Syria;

flame retardant sampling in Czech Republic;

and burning dump and incinerator activities in the Czech Republic, Lebanon, Romania, and Thailand.

Efforts are being directed at finishing up project activities as IPEP comes to a close. Further developments in IPEP are described below.

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Work in the Regions

Anglophone Africa ;

Agenda for Environment and Responsible Development (Tanzania) Silvani Mnganya.

The Hub has been following up with the ongoing projects for timely completion and received progress reports from four projects in Nigeria. Final comments have been made on two reports, Uganda Situation Report; and Community and Workplace Monitoring as a Tool for the Identification of POPs Exposures in Tanzania. The reports will soon be submitted to the Global Coordinator. The Hub is also working on summaries of reports and dissemination of reports to different stakeholders.

Central and Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia Countries

Francophone Africa

Latin America and Middle East

Southeast Asia AND South Asia

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