AFLDC-2 Scaling-up Investment and Technology Transfer to Facilitate Capacity Strengthening and Technical Assistance for the Implementation of Stockholm and Minamata Conventions in African LDCs

To promote circular economy approaches within national development frameworks to achieve economic development while scaling-up investments and BAT/BEP to eliminate, reduce and control POPs and Mercury pollution sources in African LDCs

Financial mechanism
GEF
Date of approval
Status
Project approved
URL
https://www.thegef.org/projects-operations/projects/10218
Countries
Zambia,
Uganda,
Togo,
Senegal,
Sierra Leone,
Mauritania,
Liberia,
Guinea,
Gambia,
Ethiopia,
Angola
Managing organisations
Angola: Ministry of Environment Ethiopia: Ethiopian Environmental Protection Authority Gambia: National Environment Agency (NEA) Guinea: Ministry of Environment
Water and Forestry Liberia: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Senegal: Ministry of Environ
Implementing organisations
AfDB
Project ID
10218
GEF project type
Full size
GEF project phase
GEF - 7
GEF Cofinancing
$237.143.479
GEF project grant
$21.300.000
Executing Agencies
Angola: Ministry of Environment Ethiopia: Ethiopian Environmental Protection Authority Gambia: National Environment Agency (NEA) Guinea: Ministry of Environment, Water and Forestry Liberia: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Senegal: Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development Sierra Leone: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Togo: Ministry of Environment and Forest Resources Uganda: National Environmental Management Agency (NEMA) Zambia: Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) Mauritania: Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development; The Africa Institute for the Environmentally Sound Management of Hazardous and Other Wastes (Africa Institute); The Basel and Stockholm Convention Regional Centre Senegal (BCRC/SCRC-AF)