? Toxics Link is an environmental NGO, dedicated to bringing toxics related information to the public domain, both relating to struggles and problems at the grass root as well as global information to the local levels. Toxics Link works with municipal, hazardous and medical waste management and food safety among others. Toxics Link is implementing the SGP project in the focal area of Phasing out of PoPs with the goal to contribute to international efforts to phase out PoPs in the form of controlled, reduced or eliminated discharges, emissions and losses fostering civil society participation in the effective implementation of the Stockholm Convention. The specific objectives of the project are:
? Encourage and enable NGOs and other stakeholders to engage in activities within their countries that will provide concrete and immediate contributions to country efforts in preparing for Stockholm Convention implementation.
? Enhance the skills and knowledge of NGOs to help build their capacity as effective stakeholders and participants during national preparations for Convention implementation.
? These activities should leave NGOs who have participated in the Project with enhanced capability to undertake future and ongoing national and regional activities aimed at the reduction and elimination of POPs and other PTS. The implementation will be divided into three phases ? planning & preparatory phase, stakeholders? consultation and follow-up and proposal development.
? The projected outputs are:
? Greatly enhanced absorptive capacity among a wide range of stakeholders in India/ South Asia.
? Increased level of awareness, understanding, and knowledge among the relevant stakeholders and the civil society organizations concerning the effects of POPs on human health and the environment and the measures required to reduce and eliminate them.
? Expanded interest, capacity and competence in POPs-related issues, leading to their ongoing involvement in Stockholm Convention implementation efforts and other efforts that address persistent toxic substances.
? Individual, institutional and systemic capacity to formulate and implement projects by at least some of the participants.
? Enhanced capability among NGOs to undertake future and ongoing national and regional activities aimed at the reduction and elimination of POPs and other PTS. Possible synergies among different activities and provide opportunity to actors to coordinate their work in order to identify gaps and avoid duplication.
?Possible synergies among different activities and providing opportunity to actors to coordinate their work in order to identify gaps and avoid duplication.

Major activities( required to achieve the purpose of the project):


?Stakeholders? consultation to identify issues of national importance
?Capacity building of stakeholders to equip them to take up activities to address the various issues identified.
?Facilitation of activities on POPs in the country.
?Facilitation & technical assistance to NGOs in the formulation of project proposal.