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Assessment of persistent organic pollutants POPS in Gaza Strip and West Bank

The project main goal is to protect the human health and to reduce, alleviate, and prevent the spread of these pollutants in the Palestinian environment.
The project main activities are:
1-Conduct two introductory workshops one in Gaza and one in West Bank to introduce the project to the relevant stokeholds from ministries and Non-governmental Institutions.
2- Establish two steering committees for the project including all stakeholders (one steering committee in Gaza and one in West Bank).
3-Prepare questionnaire and survey for data collection and analysis on POPs by the consultant and project coordinator in Gaza Strip and West Bank for all the ministries and related factories and industries.
4- Produce, print and distribute of technical report with all results and information about the POPs existing situation and recommendations (75 copies in Gaza Strip and 75 copies in West Bank).
5- Prepare and print POPs manual (1000 copies in the Gaza Strip and 1000 copies in the West Bank).
6- Take 50 samples from factories and carry out lab tests to identify and quantify the concentration of PCBs
7- Conduct two final workshops to present the project?s results and recommendations.

Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Palestinaian Environmental Friends

Country:

Palestine, State of

Area Of Work:

Chemicals

Operational Phase:

OP6 -Y4 (Jul 18 - Jun 19)

Grant Amount:

US$ 35,800.00

Co-Financing Cash:

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 11,400.00

Project Number:

PAL/SGP/OP6/Y3/CORE/CH/2018/12

Start Date:

8/2018

End Date:

12/2019

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

Prepares POPs guidelines (2000 copies), printed and distributed 1000 copies in the Gaza Strip and 1000 copies in the West Bank. The guideline would be a useful awareness tool in the awareness sessions which is planned in coordination with the Ministry of Education. The implementation of awareness sessions were dependent on the findings of field surveys about POPs in the environment. In total 20 awareness raising sessions were conducted (13 sessions in the West Bank and seven sessions in the Gaza Stip.

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

The final technical report will be considered as a reference document containing a lot of valuable information about the existing situation of the POPs compounds in the West Bank and Gaz Strip which will be used in the developing of national implementation plans the NIPs

Policy Impact

The project contributes to build capacities of governmental workers involved in the management and handling of hazardous pollutants such as POPs in order to adopt best practices and reasonable safety ways. The final technical report will be considered as a reference document containing a lot of valuable information about the existing situation of the POPs compounds in the West Bank and Gaz Strip which will be used in the developing of national implementation plans the NIPs

Policy Influence

The project contributes to preparing and developing national implementation plans on POPs through developing a technical study and awareness rising guidelines about POPs and their types and potential sites in the Palestinian Authority.

Project Results

1)Data collected for POPs component
2) Guideline about POPs were prepared
3) Awareness sessions with employees in the related institutions about POPs and school students were conducted.
4) Study the PCBs by conducting a complete field survey of the locations of these compounds were published.
5) Decision makers from different ministries became aware about on of the most important and dangerous chemicals which is usally used in the agricultural and industrial sector and sometimes these chemicals are unintentionally produced like dioxin and furans .
6) Public awarenes has been increased by the sesions which has been given to many schools in the whole governorate of the palestinian terrerorietes (west bank and the Gaza strip ) and guidline report about the POPs has been distributed.
7) farmers and the industrial sector became aware of the health impact of the POPs compounds and the necessacity not to import any of them in the future from Israel.
8) Some of the industrial sectors and the waste incineration got information and advices to take care of the emmissions and to minimise it as much as possible due to its health and environmental impacts.

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