INTERNATIONAL POPs ELIMINATION PROJECT (IPEP)
Final Performance Report
Joseph DiGangi, Global Project Coordinator
International POPs Elimination Project
Environmental Health Fund
September 2006
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Annex 7. IPEP project activity list:
A full list of IPEP Project titles and NGOs is listed here by country. Project summaries
provide a more informative view of the activities, but due to the size they occupy (more
than 100 pages) they are presented instead on the IPEP website at www.ipen.org In
addition keyword categories on the website can help the viewer find reports about certain
topics including: Country situation reports for contribution to NIP processes; DDT;
PCBs; Unintentionally produced POPs (dioxins, furans, HCB, PCBs); Obsolete
pesticides; New POPs; POPs Hotspots; Waste management and POPs; Public
information, education, capacity-building, and awareness-raising; Policy and legislation
Pesticides, agriculture and integrated pest management; Inventories and data collection;
Monitoring and assessment; Health and ecosystem impacts; Indigenous Peoples and
POPs; Alternatives to practices that use or generate POPs
Albania
1ALB Awareness-raising campaign on POPs levels in wastes in Albania
EDEN Center
2ALB Albania country situation report on POPs
EDEN Center and Arnika
3ALB Pesticide contamination in the abandoned chemical plant, Porto Romano
EDEN Center and Arnika
Argentina
1ARG Argentina country situation report on POPS
Taller Ecologista
2ARG Capacity building to strengthen community participation in the implementation of
the Stockholm Convention: Focusing on Children and Chemical Safety
Asociació Argentina de Médicos por el Medio Ambiente (AAMMA)
3ARG Participation in the Argentina National Implementation Plan (NIP) of the
Stockholm Convention: Focusing on Children's Chemical Safety
Asociación Argentina de Médicos por el Medio Ambiente (AAMMA)
4ARG Contribution to a pollutants-free future, Opportunites to move towards health care
waste treatment without incineration in Latin America
Health Care Without Harm Latin America and Global Alliance for Alternatives to
Incineration (GAIA)
6ARG Spanish Translation of Dirty Dozen Articles Magazine special issue on POPs
Global Alliance for Alternatives to Incineration (GAIA)
7ARG Global week of action on POPs in Argentina
Acción por la Biodiversidad and the Citizen's Anti-Incineration Coalition
8ARG Global week of action on POPs in Argentina
Centro de Estudios sobre Tecnologías Apropiadas de Argentina (CETAAR)
Armenia
1ARM PCBs monitoring in environmental media in Armenia and identification of hot
spots Ecotox
2ARM Environmental Security for Residents of Ararat Oblast
Armenian Women for Health and Healthy Environment (AWHHE)
3ARM Armenia country situation report
Center for Environmental Studies (CES) with the Centre of Legal Protection of the
Environment "ERAS", Ecotox, Shoger Union, and Biosustainability
4ARM Global day of action on POPs in Armenia: waste incineration in Armenia
Armenian Women for Health and Healthy Environment (AWHHE)
5ARM Global day of action on POPs in Armenia
Ecotox
6ARM Global day of action on POPs in Armenia
Khazer
7ARM Empowering the Armenian public to take actions towards environmentally sound
waste management
Armenian Women for Health and Healthy Environment (AWHHE)
8ARM Identification of potential sources of dioxins and furans in Armenia and
elaboration of recommendations aimed at reducing their negative impact on human health
and the environment
Ecotox
Azerbaijan
1AZE Public Environmental Inventory of Pesticides in the Republic of Azerbaijan and
Organisation of a Public Movement for their Elimination
Ruzgar with Ecological movement "For Clean Caspian", Ecological Fund, and Eko-TES
2AZE Azerbaijan country situation report on POPS
Ruzgar
3AZE Global day of action on POPs in Azerbaijan: Environmental Field Study of the
Pesticide Elimination Site
Ruzgar
Bangladesh
1BGD Bangladesh country situation report on POPs
Environment and Social Development Organization-ESDO
2BGD Identification and Mapping of POPs Contaminated Sites
Environment and Social Development Organization-ESDO
3BGD Public Information and Capacity Building on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
and their Disposal
Association for Community Development (ACD)
4BGD National Level POPs Awareness and Capacity Building Workshop in Bangladesh
Environment and Social Development Organization-ESDO
Belarus
1BYE Belarus country situation report on POPs; Hotspot report on Verkhnedvinsk
obsolete pesticide dump; Hotspot report on Novopolotsk petrochemical complex
Foundation for Realization of Ideas (FRI)
2BYE Egg sampling for by-product POPs
Foundation for Realization of Ideas (FRI)
3BYE Global day of action on POPs in Belarus
International Academy of Ecology Belarus Division (BOMAE)
4BYE Dirty Dozen magazine
Foundation for Realization of Ideas (FRI)
5BYE Global day of action on POPs in Belarus Foundation for Realization of Ideas (FRI)
6BYE Practical Implementation of the Stockholm Convention in Belarus
Foundation for Realization of Ideas (FRI)
7BYE Burning waste in cement kilns and POPs
Foundation for Realization of Ideas (FRI)
8BYE Brominated Flame Retardants in Minsk – Releases and alternatives
Foundation for Realization of Ideas (FRI)
Benin
1BEN Awareness-raising on POPs for health and environmental protection
Organisation Béninoise pour la Promotion de l'Agriculture Biologique (OBEPAB)
2BEN Training grassroots communities on exposure risks to POPs in the district of
Oueme-Benin
Organisation des Femmes pour la Gestion de l'Energie, de l'Environnement et la
Promotion du Développement intégré (OFEDI)
3BEN Global day of action on POPs in Benin
Organisation des Femmes pour la Gestion de l'Energie, de l'Environnement et la
Promotion du Développement intégré (OFEDI)
Brazil
1BRA Mobilizing Brazilian civil society for Stockholm Convention implementation
workshop
Associaçã o de Combate aos POP's (ACPO)
Bulgaria
1BUL Raising public awareness about POPs waste destruction and publication of policy
briefs on related issues in Bulgaria
Za Zemiata
3BUL Conference on pesticide impacts in the Danube and Black Sea Region
National Movement Ecoglasnost - Friends of the Earth Bulgaria
4BUL Global day of action on POPs in Bulgaria
National Movement Ecoglasnost - Friends of the Earth Bulgaria
5BUL Egg sampling for by-product POPs
Za Zemiata
6BUL Lindane in Bulgaria
National Movement Ecoglasnost - Friends of the Earth Bulgaria
7BUL Bulgaria country situation report on POPs
National Movement Ecoglasnost - Friends of the Earth Bulgaria
8BUL Awareness-raising campaign on zero waste as Best Environmental Practice to
address POPs Issues created by waste incineration and/or landfilling of waste - Case
study in Bulgaria
Romani Baht Foundation
Burundi
1BDI Burundi country situation report on POPS
Propreté – Environnement – Santé (PES)
2BDI Global day of action on POPs in Burundi
Propreté – Environnement – Santé (PES)
Cambodia
1CMB Awareness-Raising Report on POPs Issues and the Stockholm Convention
NGO Forum on Cambodia
2CMB Raising Public Awareness on Persistent Organic Pollutants Program
Cambodian Centre for Study and Development of Agriculture (CEDAC)
Cameroon
1CMR Cameroon country situation report on POPS
Cameroon Pesticide Action Network
2CMR Public awareness-raising among public and private press actors of the Stockholm
Convention on POPs
Front African pour la Defense de la Nature et de l'Homme (FADENAH)
Chile
1CHI Global week of action on POPS in Chile
Alianza por una Mejor Calidad de Vida
China
1CPR The China POPs Pesticides Situation
Colombia
1COL Global week of action on POPS in Colombia
RAPALMIRA
Congo
1PRC Comparative study on environmental, socio-economic and health impacts of POPs
use and contamination in contaminated areas: Ouesse and Nkanyi
Association pour la Protection de l'Environnement et pour la Promotion de l'Agriculture
Biologique (ALPEPAB)
2PRC Global day of action on POPS in Congo
Association pour la Protection de l'Environnement et pour la Promotion de l'Agriculture
Biologique (ALPEPAB)
3PRC Raising awareness of the Stockholm Convention on POPs and POPs impacts in the
localities of Brazzaville, Nkayi and Ouesso
Association pour la Protection de l’Environnement et pour la Promotion de l'Agriculture
Biologique (ALPEPAB)
Colombia
1COS National workshop: Environmental and health problems of Persistent Organic
Pollutants (POPs): Challenges for Costa Rica
Instituto Regional de Estudios en Sustancias Tóxicas (IRET) Universidad Nacional.
Colombia
1CRO Croatia country situation report on POPs
Green Action (Zelena Akcija)
Czech Republic
2CEH Hot-sport report "POPs pesticides in the Czech Republic" and
Policy brief on "POPs and hazardous waste incineration in the Czech Republic"
Czech Ecological Society
3CEH Czech Republic country situation report; POPs in Mine Jan Sverma near
Lampertice
Arnika
4CEH Template report for egg Sampling for by-product POPs
Civic Association Lysin, Arnika
5CEH Global coordination of egg sampling for by-product POPs
Arnika
6CEH Capacity building workshop "Persistent Organic Pollutants and Waste and
Chemicals Policy" and its follow up activities
Arnika
7CEH Proofing and translation
Arnika
8CEH Egg sampling for by-product POPs and public raising awareness activities
Arnika, Civic League Ústí nad Labem, and Civic Association "Lidi pro Liberec"
9CEH Global eggs sampling for by-product POPs - interpretation of the results and
national reports
Arnika
10CEH Global week of action on POPs in the Czech Republic
Arnika and Civic Association Mokra
11CEH Report printing
Arnika
12CEH Awareness-raising project for CEE Region Authorities
Arnika
13CEH Expert teams and NGO capacity building in the CEE Region
Arnika
14CEH Expert Team Activities on POPs in Waste
Arnika
15CEH Proofing and translation
Arnika
16CEH Public participation in IPPC processes in the Czech Republic and POPs
Arnika and Civic League Ústí nad Labem
17CEH PBDEs in the Czech Republic
Arnika
18CEH POPs in the first PRTR data in the Czech Republic – analysis
Arnika
19CEH Regional expert team activities on zero waste as Best Environmental Practice to
address POPs issues
Arnka
20CEH Milovice and Lysa nad Labem - two POPs hot spots in Central Bohemia
Civic Association Lysin and Arnika
21CEH Municipal waste incinerator in Liberec - important POPs source
Arnika
22CEH Lindane - a pesticide for the POPs list
Czech Ecological Society and Arnika
23CEH Report printing
Arnika
24CEH Proofing and translation
Arnika
Egypt
2EGY Together for protecting our children from cancerous organic pollutants: raising
public awareness on POPs in Egypt
Environmental Pioneers Association
3EGY Monitoring of dioxins in fish produced in the impact zone of Helwan cement and
steel plants
Day Hospital for Development and Rehabilitation
4EGY Health Status of Random Sample, particular Children, of the Impact Zone of El
Kafer El Zaiat plant for pesticide and chemical production (formerly DDT producing)
Egypt Suns Association for Development and Environmental Protection
5EGY Egg sampling for by-product POPs
Day Hospital for Development and Rehabilitation
6EGY Global day of action on POPs in Egypt
Dreamers of Tomorrow
7EGY Global day of action on POPs in Egypt: Youth and POPs
Arab Office for Youth and Environment (AOYE)
8EGY Translation
Day Hospital for Development and Rehabilitation
9EGY Translation
Day Hospital for Development and Rehabilitation
10EGY Egypt country situation report on POPs
Day Hospital for Development and Rehabilitation
11EGY Translation
Day Hospital for Development and Rehabilitation
12EGY Awareness-raising activities on egg sampling at the Helwan industrial area
Day Hospital for Development and Rehabilitation
13EGY Developing regional NGO strategies on POPs and chemicals management
Arab Network for Environment and Development (RAED)
Estonia
1EST Estonia country situation report on POPs; Awareness-raising campaign on POPs
levels in wastes in Estonia
Estonian Green Movement
Gambia
1GAM Global day of action on POPs in Gambia
Stay Green Foundation
Ghana
1GHA Ghana country situation report on POPs
Environment Youth Action Network (EYAN) in collaboration with Integrated
Community Network (ICC)
Georgia
1GEO Georgia country situation report on POPs
ECOVISION Union on Sustainable Development
2GEO Public awareness campaign on pesticides, including obsolete and banned
pesticides, impact on human health
Georgian Environmental and Biological Monitoring Association (GEBMA)
Guinea Bissau
2GUI Information and awareness-raising workshop on the Stockholm Convention on
POPs meant for NGOs, other civil society organisations, chemical users and the press of
Guinea Bissau
Association des Consommateurs de Biens et Services (ACOBES)
Hungary
1HUN Zero waste case study; Public awareness-raising on zero waste to address POPs
from incineration and landfilling
HuMuSz
2HUN Lindane in Hungary
Clean Air Action Group (CAAG)
3HUN Hungary country situation report on POPs pesticides
Clean Air Action Group (CAAG)
India
2IND Campaign and awareness building on POPs and participation in developing of the
National Implementation Plan
Society for Direct Initiative for Social and Health Action (DISHA)
3IND POPs hotspot report on Lucknow City and egg sampling
Toxics Link
4IND India country situation report on POPs
Toxics Link
5IND Global day of action on POPs in India
Toxics Link
6IND Preparation of a manual on POPs and women's health
Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group
7IND Case study of zero waste Kovalam: A progressive waste management programme
with a focus on best available technology options and material substitution
Thanal
8IND Training junk dealers to learn about POPs present / created in their premises and to
understand the importance of minimizing them
Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group
9IND Series of Peoples' dialogues on the environmental health crisis in the cotton belt of
the Malwa Region in Punjab
Kheti Virasat Mission
10IND Production of awareness material for the farmers on the harmful impacts of POPs
and pesticides and promotion of alternatives
Kheti Virasat Mission
11IND Establishing the prevalence of POPs pesticide residues in water, soil and
vegetable samples and creating awareness about their ill-effects
Janhit Foundation
12IND Public awareness activities and campaign on POPs (Hello Zindagi- Alvida POPs
Campaign)
Prithvi Innovations
13IND Organic farming - An answer to the Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
Gramin Vikas Evam Paryavaran Sanstha, (GVEPS)
14IND
15IND Awareness on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
Environment Centre
16IND Awareness generation on POPs among the farming community
Association for Rural and Tribal Development (ACTION)
17IND Empowering community to improve environmental health through reduction
POPs
Students Relief Society
Indonesia
1INS Awareness campaign on the danger of POPs and other pesticides to human health
and environment through action research activity by a rural community
Farmer's Initiatives for Ecological Livelihoods and Democracy (FIELD)
2INS Policy brief on zero waste: A proposal for a POPs-free alternative to managing
municipal discards in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
Balifokus (Indonesia), Consumers' Association of Penang (Malaysia), Ecological Waste
Coalition (Philippines), and Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (Philippines)
3INS Monitoring of banned pesticides in Indonesia
Gita Pertiwi
Jordan
1JOR Stockholm Convention in Action in Jordan
Land and Human to Advocate Progress (LHAP)
2JOR Global day of action on POPs in Jordan: public hearing
Land and Human to Advocate Progress (LHAP)
3JOR Jordan country situation report on POPs
Badia Revival and Environmental Protection Society
4JOR POPs and Policy in Jordan
Jordan International Center for Development and Peace
Kazakhstan
1KAZ Kazakhstan country situation report on POPs
Greenwomen with Eco-Forum of Kazakh NGOs, Naursum NGO from Kustanai, and
Ecomuseum NGO from Karaganda
2KAZ Global day of action on POPs in Kazakhstan
Greenwomen with Eco-Forum of Kazakh NGOs, Naursum NGO from Kustanai, and
Ecomuseum NGO from Karaganda
3KAZ PCB contamination of the Eastern-Kazakhstan region: monitoring and inventories
of PCB sources; ways to address the problem
Greenwomen
Kenya
1KEN Kenya country situation report on POPs
Association of Physicians and Medical Workers for Social Responsibility (PSR-Kenya)
2KEN Approaches to effective malaria control that avoid DDT in Kenya: Use of Bacillus
thuringiensis israelensis (BTi)
African Center for Environmental Advocacy and Governance (CEAG Africa)
3KEN Kitengela obsolete pesticides store in Kenya
Environmental Liaison, Education and Action for Development (ENVILEAD)
4KEN Study on waste incineration activities in Nairobi that release dioxin and furan into
the environment
Environmental Liaison, Education and Action for Development (ENVILEAD)
5KEN Egg Testing - Contamination of chicken eggs near the Dandora dumpsite in Kenya
by dioxins, PCBs and hexachlorobenzene
Environmental Liaison, Education and Action for Development (ENVILEAD)
6KEN Global day of action on POPs in Kenya
PSR- Kenya, CEAG Africa and iLima – Kenya
Kyrgystan
1KYR Kyrgyzstan country situation report on POPS
For Civil Society
2KYR Inter-agency and inter-sectoral cooperation at national and local levels to address
POPs-associated problems
Independent Ecological Expertise
3KYR Identification of sources of dioxins, furans, PCBs and the campaign against POPs
pollution in central Asia
For Civil Society and Clean Fergana, Uzbekistan
4KYR Analyzing and assessment of the POPs situation in the Kochkor region of the
Kyrgyz Republic
Civic Environmental Foundation "UNISON"
5KYR Information and awareness-raising campaign to lobby for the ratification of the
Stockholm Convention in Kyrgyzstan
Independent Ecological Expertise
Lebanon
1LEB Together let's eliminate POPs
Association pour la protection de l'environement et du patrimoine –Nabatieh (APEP)
2LEB Global day of action on POPs in Lebanon
Association pour la protection de l'environement et du patrimoine –Nabatieh (APEP)
3LEB National POPs Campaign in Lebanon
AMWAJ for the Environment
4LEB Lebanon country situation report
Lebanese Environmental Forum (LEF)
5LEB Garbage mountain
Association pour la Protection de l'Environnement et du Patrimoine (APEP)
Malaysia
1MAL Malaysia country situation report on pesticides
Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific
2MAL Report on Persistent Organic Pollutants in Malaysia and Efforts to Raise
Consumer Awareness and Action to Protect Public Health and the Environment
Consumers' Association of Penang
3MAL Public awareness-raising on incineration using film: "ALICE LIVES HERE" -
Documentation and Popularization of a Community Struggle against the Broga Municipal
Waste Incinerator Project
Broga Documentary Group
Mali
1MLI Country situation report on Mali
Association pour la Défense de l'Environnement et la Sensibilisation des Consommateurs
(ADESCOM)
Mauritania
1MAU Strategy proposal for the identification and control of devices containing PCBs in
the Islamic Republic of Mauritania: Case study in Nouakchott.
Agir pour une Gestion Rationnelle pour l'Environnement en Mauritanie (AGREEM)
2MAU Global day of action on POPS in Mauritania
Agir pour une Gestion Rationnelle pour l'Environnement en Mauritanie (AGREEM)
Mexico
2MEX Citizen's guide to the Stockholm Convention
Red de Acción sobre Plaguicidas y Alternativas en México (RAPAM)
3MEX Identification of POPs pollution sources using a participatory approach in Eastern
Morelos, Mexico
Centro de Análisis Social, Información y Formación Popular, A.C. (CASIFOP)
4MEX Translation of Citizen's Guide
Red de Acción sobre Plaguicidas y Alternativas en México (RAPAM)
5MEX Egg Sampling for by-product POPs in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico
Organización y Desarrollo Social and Red de Acción sobre Plaguicidas y Alternativas
en México (RAPAM)
6MEX Translation
Red de Acción sobre Plaguicidas y Alternativas en México (RAPAM)
7MEX Inventories of Unintentional Pops (UPOPs) in Latin America, a comparative study
Red de Acción sobre Plaguicidas y Alternativas en México (RAPAM) and Owltree
Consulting
8MEX Mexican Isthmus: generation of and contamination by Persistent Organic
Pollutants (POPs)
Ambiente y Bienestar Humano and Red de Acción sobre Plaguicidas y Alternativas en México (RAPAM)
9MEX Global day of action on POPs in Mexico
Red de Acción sobre Plaguicidas y Alternativas en México (RAPAM)
10MEX Translation: Dirty Dozen magazine
Red de Acción sobre Plaguicidas y Alternativas en México (RAPAM)
11MEX POPs Public Awareness Campaign in Mexico
Red de Acción sobre Plaguicidas y Alternativas en México (RAPAM)
12MEX Mexico country situation report on POPs
Red de Acción sobre Plaguicidas y Alternativas en México (RAPAM)
Moldova
1MOL Moldova without Persistent Organic Pollutants
Chisinau Territorial Organisation of the Environmental Movement of Moldova
2MOL POPs in Trans-Dniesteria (Moldova) - Situation Assessment and Public
Information
"Eco-TIRAS" International Environmental Association of River Warriors with
Turunchuk and Doctors for the Environment
3MOL Moldova country situation report on POPS
Habitat Regional Development Agency
4MOL Global of action on POPs in Moldova: children against POPs
Chisinau Territorial Organisation of the Environmental Movement of Moldova
5MOL Global day of action on POPs in Moldova
Habitat Environmental News Agency
6MOL Global day of action on POPs in Moldova
Ecotox
7MOL Global day of action on POPs in Moldova
Doctors for Ecology
8MOL No to waste incineration
Chisinau Territorial Organisation of the Environmental Movement of Moldova
Morocco
1MOR Prevention of morbidity and mortality due to POPs pesticides
Société Marocaine de Toxicologie Clinique et Analytique
2MOR Global day of action on POPs in Morocco
Société Marocaine de Toxicologie Clinique et Analytique
Nepal
1NEP Identification of a POPs Hotspot – Examination of DDT and Lindane (BHC)
Residues in Potato and Farm Soil
Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ)
2NEP Public Information and Awareness Campaign on POPs Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ)
3NEP Nepal country situation report on POPs
Society for Human Rights, Environment, Law and Governance Activities (SHELGA)
4NEP Governmental and Public Awareness-raising on POPs
Forum for Justice
5NEP Production of IEC material on POPs and its Dissemination through Interaction
Programs
Centre for Public Health and Environmental Development (CEPHED)
7NEP Global day of action on POPs in Nepal
Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ)
8NEP Public Information and Awareness Raising on Unintentionally Produced POPs
Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ)
9NEP National Level Awareness and Training Workshop on POPs
Centre for Public Health and Environmental Development (CEPHED)
10NEP Bio-Medical Waste and POPs: A Study on Current Practices in Nepal
Centre for Public Health and Environmental Development (CEPHED)
Nigeria
1NIR Global day of action on POPs in Nigeria
Nigerian Environmental Society (NES)
2NIR Report and stakeholders reflection workshop on the Nigerian POPs situation
Friends Of The Environment (FOTE)
3NIR Identification and control of POPs-contaminated Sites in Lagos, South Western
Nigeria and stakeholders’ workshop
Nigerian Environmental Society (NES)
4NIR Assessment of the Lagos Lagoon for POPs sources, types and impacts
Friends Of The Environment (FOTE)
5NIR Awareness-raising on the socio-economic effects of POPs in Nigeria
Nigerian Environmental Study/Action Team (NEST)
Pakistan
1PAK Skill Share Workshop on POPs and South Asia Regional Hub Steering Committee
Meeting
Toxics Link and Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI)
2PAK Physical verification, environmental and health impacts of a POP (DDT) factory in
North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Pakistan
Sustainable Development policy Institute (SDPI)
3PAK Egg sampling for by-product POPs
Sustainable Development policy Institute (SDPI)
4PAK Global day of action on POPs in Pakistan
Sustainable Development policy Institute (SDPI)
Palestine
1PAL Raising awareness, evaluation and assessment of POPs and its sources in the Gaza
Strip
Green Peace Association
2PAL Palestine country situation report on POPs
Palestinian Friends Association
Paraguay
1PAR: Implementation of the Stockholm Convention in Paraguay: Participation of the
civil society in awareness-raising of Persistent Organic Pollutants
Altervida
Peru
1PER Global week of action on POPs in Peru
Red de Accion en Alternativas al uso de Agroquímicos (RAAA)
Philippines
2PHI Monitoring community exposure to PCBs located at the Meralco Pasig Central
Service Station
Advocates of Science and Technology for the People (AGHAM)
3PHI POPs environmental scanning and social investigation of toxically critical areas
along Manila Bay
Fisherfolk Against Toxics (PAMALAKAYA)
4PHI Philippines country situation report on POPs pesticides
Pesticide Action Network Philippines
5PHI Global week of action on POPs in the Philippines
Ecowaste Coalition
6PHI Participatory Action Research in Support of a Community Struggle against an
Incineration Facility for Health Care Waste
Cavite Green Coalition and the Institute for Educational and Ecological Alternatives
7PHI Community Health Assessment in POPs-Contaminated Community (Target
Village, Sapang Bato, Angeles City)
Peoples' Task Force on Bases Cleanup
8PHI POPs pesticides in a watershed area: Focus on endosulfan
Lakaba (Strength of Youth)
9PHI Participatory action research on POPs pesticides in a Philippine rural community
Resistance and Solidarity Against Agrochemical Transnational Corporations (RESIST)
10PHI Egg sampling for by-product POPs in chicken eggs
Cavite Green Coalition, Ecowaste Coalition, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives
and the Health Care Without Harm
12PHI Ecological Waste Management Demonstration Project at the 23rd Southeast Asian
Games to Prevent and Reduce Wasting, Dumping and Burning
Ecowaste Coalition in cooperation with the Ayala Foundation, Cavite Green Coalition,
Concerned Citizens Against Pollution, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives,
Greenpeace Southeast Asia, Mother Earth Foundation, Smokey Mountain Community,
Soroptimist International of Makati City, and Zero Waste Philippines
Romania
1ROM Romania country situation report on POPs
Environmental Experts Association (EEA)
2ROM Policy brief on non-POPs crop protection and hotspot report for healthcare wastes
for Romania
Environmental Experts Association (EEA)
3ROM Constanta medical-waste incinerator
Mare Nostrum
Russia
1RUS The time to act: Addressing obsolete pesticides
Women Network in the Urals
2RUS Levels of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDD/Fs) and Polychlorinated
Biphenyls (PCBs) in Breast Milk of Women - Residents of Magnitogorsk
Iskorka
3RUS Translation including public involvement in the primary inventory of obsolete
pesticide stockpiles
Eco-Accord
4RUS Russia country situation report on POPS
Eco-Accord
6RUS Translation including Citizen’s guide to the Stockholm Convention
Eco-Accord
7RUS Translation and communication
Eco-Accord
8RUS Pesticides a real threat
Eco-Accord
9RUS PCBs Pollution of Nizhegorodskaya Oblast: Territory Monitoring and Inventories
of PCBs Sources as an Option to Address the Problem
Eco SPES
10RUS The role of inter-sectoral partnerships in development of regional and local
PRTRs
Volgograd Ecopress
11RUS
12RUS Egg sampling for by-product POPS
Eco SPES
13RUS Reproductive health effects associated with exposure to PCBs among Natives of
the Russian Arctic
The North-western Centre of Hygiene and Public Health
14RUS Development of an action plan for reducing the exposure to POPs among Natives
of the Russian Arctic
The North-western Centre of Hygiene and Public Health
15RUS Global day of action on POPs in Russia: Fifteenth anniversary of the dioxin dump
in Ufa
The Union of Ecologists of the Republic of Bashkortostan
16RUS Global day of action on POPs in Russia: Raising public awareness on health
impacts of POPs
Chapaevsk Medical Association
17RUS Global day of action: dioxins in Russian food
Eco-Accord
18RUS Global of action on POPs
Ural Environmental Union
19RUS Global day of action on POPs: POPs in Nizhegorodskiy Oblast
EcoSPES
20RUS Global day of action on POPs: Identification of banned and unauthorised
pesticide stockpiles in the Moscow region
Infosfera
21RUS Global day of action on POPs: MSU Students against POPs
Students' Union of Moscow State University
22RUS Global day of action on POPs: mass media
Centre for Environmental Information (Nijni Novgorod, Russia)
23RUS Global day of action on POPs: POPs as a Threat for Life
"Taiga" Novosibirsk Nature Protection Team and the West Siberia Environmental
Monitoring Centre
24RUS Global day of action on POPs: Act with us against POPs!
Volgograd Ecopress
26RUS Translation
Eco-Accord
27RUS Health status of residents, particular children, of the impact zone of Karabash
copper enterprise, Cheliabinsk region, and Tobolsk oil and chemical enterprise, Tumen
region
Iskorka
28RUS Assessment of Contamination of Chicken Eggs by Some POPs in Different
Regions of Russia
Environment-Health-Risk
29RUS Public Participation in Primary Inventories of Stockpiles of Banned and Obsolete
Pesticides
Women Network in the Urals
30RUS Survey of chemicals management policy of the Russian Federation and regional
workshop on health and environmental impact of toxic chemicals
Eco-Accord
31RUS Translation
Eco-Accord
32RUS Identification of Sources and Releases of Brominated Flame Retardants in
Moscow city, identification of alternatives and management strategies
EcoSPES
33RUS Organisation and Holding of Public Hearings on Reorganisation of "Khimprom"
Company in Ufa
The Union of Ecologists of the Republic of Bashkortostan
34RUS Enhancement of Public Participation in Decision-making on Reduction of POPs
Environmental Releases
Volgograd Ecopress
35RUS DDT and DDE in Russian Arctic and reproductive health of Indigenous Peoples
The North-western Centre of Hygiene and Public Health
36RUS Translation including Estimating releases and prioritizing sources in the context
of the Stockholm Convention
Eco-Accord
37RUS Evaluation of potential risk of obsolete pesticide stockpiles for human health and
the environment
Women Network in the Urals
38RUS Public awareness campaign on pesticides, including obsolete and banned
pesticides, impact on human health
Volgograd Ecopress
Senegal
2SEN International conference on the theme: "Implementing multilateral agreements
relating to chemicals in African French speaking countries: Obstacles and opportunities".
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Africa
3SEN Translation
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Africa
4SEN Translation
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Africa
5SEN Egg Sampling for by-product POPs
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Africa
6SEN Waste management issue in Senegal: the example of Thies, outlining solutions to
the waste incineration
Association pour la Défense de l'Environnement et des Consommateurs
7SEN Translation
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Africa
8SEN Translation
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Africa
9SEN Inventory of some informal sector activities releasing and using POPs in Senegal;
production of a raising awareness film on these activities for promoting best practices.
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Africa
10SEN Documenting the recourse to DDT powder in the process of transformation and
keeping of some fishing products
AGRINAT
Slovakia
1SLO Kosice municipal waste incinerator; public awareness-raising campaign
Friends of the Earth Slovakia
2SLO Monitoring of pesticides in Slovakia with a focus on POPs pesticides
OIKOS
3SLO Raising public awareness about POPs destruction and policy brief on a new
potential POPs source in Sala
Friends of the Earth Slovakia
4SLO Awareness-raising campaign on POPs levels in wastes in Slovakia; RSTO landfill
in Slovakia
Friends of the Earth Slovakia
5SLO Country situation report on POPs in Slovakia
Friends of the Earth Slovakia
South Africa
1SAF National application of Best Available Techniques (BAT) to eliminate POPs and
their by-products
Earthlife Africa (ELA)
2SAF Global day of action on POPs in South Africa
groundWork
3SAF Global day of action on POPs in South Africa
Earthlife Africa (ELA)
4SAF Incineration and POPs release in South Africa
groundWork
5SAF DDT-contaminated site
groundWork
Sri Lanka
1SRL Sri Lanka country situation report on POPs
Centre for Environment Justice (CEJ)
2SRL Global day of action on POPs in Sri Lanka
Centre for Environment Justice (CEJ)
3SRL National Training and Awareness Programme on Persistent Organic Pollutants
(POPs)
Centre for Environment Justice (CEJ)
4SRL Minimizing the Adverse Impacts of POPs through an Awareness Programme
Balangoda Environmental Forum (BEF)
Sudan
1SUD Global of action on POPs in Sudan
Sudanese Environment Conservation Society (SECS)
Syria
1SYR Syria country situation report
Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development Society
2SYR Stockholm Convention awareness activities
Syrian Coast Society for Environmental Protection
Tanzania
2URT Old Korogwe DDT Contaminated Site
AGENDA for Environment and Responsible Development (AGENDA)
3URT PCBs Sources and Releases
AGENDA for Environment and Responsible Development (AGENDA)
4URT Tanzania country situation report on POPs
Environmental, Human Rights Care and Gender Organisation (ENVIROCARE)
5URT Community and Workplace Monitoring as a Tool for the Identification of POPs
Exposures
Tanzania Plantation and Agricultural Workers Union (TPAWU)
6URT Preliminary study of the Vikuge DDT-contaminated site and Water and Sediments
Analysis at the Vikuge POPs-contaminated Site
AGENDA for Environment and Responsible Development (AGENDA)
7URT Contamination of chicken eggs near the Vikuge obsolete pesticides stockpile in
Tanzania by dioxins, PCBs and hexachlorobenzene
AGENDA for Environment and Responsible Development (AGENDA)
9URT Global day of action on POPs in Tanzania
AGENDA, ENVIROCARE and TPAWU
Thailand
1THA Southeast Asia International POPs Elimination Project meeting and skillshare on
enhancing NGO/CSO participation in the National Implementation Plans on POPs
Pesticide Action Network – Philippines and Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives
2THA Formation of the Thai POPs Elimination Network and NGO Coordination with the
Pollution Control Department
Campaign for Alternative Industry Network and Greenpeace Southeast Asia
3THA Dioxin Hotspot Report - Case Study of Municipal Waste Incinerators in Phuket
and Samui
Campaign for Alternative Industry Network and Greenpeace Southeast Asia
Togo
1TOG Socio-economic, health and environmental impact study of pesticide use in
agriculture in Davie
Alliance Nationale des Consommateurs et de l’Environnement / Pesticide Action
Network (ANCE/PAN Togo)
2TOG Togo country situation report on POPS
Alliance Nationale des Consommateurs et de l’Environnement / Pesticide Action
Network (ANCE/PAN Togo)
3TOG Global day of action on POPs in Togo
Alliance Nationale des Consommateurs et de l’Environnement / Pesticide Action
Network (ANCE/PAN Togo)
4TOG Togolese NGO and Civil Society Awareness-Raising and Information Project on
the Stockholm Convention and POPs
Consortium des ONGs et Associations en Matière d’Environnement au TOGO (COMET)
Togo
1TUN Tunisia country situation report on POPs
Environmental Protection Association
Turkey
1TUR Two hotspots in Turkey: Petkim Petrochemical Co and a pesticide stockpile in
Derince, Kocaeli, Turkey
Arnika, Bumerang, and Greenpeace Mediterranean
2TUR Egg sampling for by-product POPs - Contamination of chicken eggs near the
hazardous waste incinerator in Izmit, Turkey by dioxins, PCBs and hexachlorobenzene
Bumerang, Arnika, and Greenpeace Mediterranean
3TUR Global day of action on POPs in Turkey
Bumerang, Arnika, and Greenpeace Mediterranean
4TUR Public awareness-raising on POPs in Turkey
Bumerang, Arnika, Greenpeace Mediterranean, International Society of Doctors for the
Environment
5TUR Turkey country situation report on POPs
Bumerang, Arnika, and Greenpeace Mediterranean
Uganda
1UGA Identification of Activities or Practices that Releases POPs in Uganda
Environmental NGOs Lobby Group (ENGO-LOG)
2UGA Uganda country situation report
Climate and Development Initiatives (CDI) with contribution from NAPE, NUPAWU,
ENGOLOG, UEEF and UCSD
3UGA Hotspot report for a contaminated site: Kawanda Agricultural Research Institute
(KARI) Uganda
National Association of Professional Environmentalists (NAPE)
4UGA Non-POPs strategies for crop protection
National Union of Plantation and Agricultural Workers, Uganda (NUPAWU)
5UGA Global day of action on POPs in Uganda
NAPE and ENGOLOG
Ukraine
1UKR Partnerships between NGOs and research facilities for capacity building to reduce
adverse health and environmental impacts of POPs
MAMA-86-Kharkov with the Environmental Charity Fund and Ukrainian Geographic
2UKR Country situation report on POPs in Ukraine
MAMA-86-Kharkov
3UKR Global day of action on POPs in Ukraine
MAMA-86-Kharkov with the Environmental Charity Fund and Ukrainian Geographic
Society
4UKR Global day of action on POPs in Ukraine: Kiev University
MAMA-86-Kharkov with the Environmental Charity Fund and Ukrainian Geographic
Society
5UKR Raising Public Awareness of the Stockholm Convention on POPs in Ukraine
MAMA-86-Kharkov with the Environmental Charity Fund and Ukrainian Geographic
Society
Uruguay
1URU Egg sampling for by-product POPs in Uruguay
Red de Acción en Plaguicidas para América Latina (RAP-AL) and REDES-Amigos de la
Tierra
2URU Global day of action on POPs in Uruguay
Red de Acción en Plaguicidas para América Latina (RAP-AL) and REDES-Amigos de la
Tierra
Uzbekistan
1UZB Informing citizens of the Karakalpakstan Republic on the danger of POPs
dumping located in the vicinity of their neighborhood
Women for Sustainable Development
Uzbekistan
1VEN Venezuela country situation report on POPs
Fundación Aguaclara
Yemen
1YEM Yemen country situation report and public awareness-raising campaign
Yemen Environment and Sustainable Development Society
Version: 2.0 (January 10, 2007)