National Environment Management Authority (NEMA)

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POPs Project for Development of National Implementation Plan (NIP)

The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) with technical assistance from United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) implemented the Project for the ‘Enabling Activities for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs): National Implementation Plan for Uganda’. The project started in July 2005 and was completed in March 2009.

Project objectives: Within the overall objective of the Stockholm Convention, which is to protect human health and the environment from POPs, the project is intended to:
1. Prepare the ground for implementation of the Convention in Uganda;
2. Assist Uganda in meeting its reporting and other obligations under the Convention; and
3. Strengthen Uganda’s national capacity to manage POPs and chemicals generally.

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