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Promoting Awareness in Persistent Organic Pollutants Pesticides and Indigenous Knowledge Systems

The project aims at harnessing indigenous knowledge to offer alternatives to using POPS pesticides, take an inventory of POPS pesticides, their availability and use in Botswana, create a database for POPS pesticides educate and raise awareness stakeholders and the general public about prevalence of POPS, promote public debate as a way of encouraging Botswana to seek alternatives for pesticide control and analyses of potable water for POPS. Competitions and quizzes will be used to enhance the learning skills on POPs for students at both primary and secondary schools. BOTHASTED will through the various organs in the Ministry of Agriculture seek to consult the stakeholders which include commercial farmers, construction workers and providers in order to document all the POPs that find their ways into the country and their progression into the environment.

The project will involve school children, commercial farmers, construction companies, providers, Department of Customs and Exercise, Plant Protection Division in the Ministry of Agriculture, senior citizens and those who have been known to have oral documentation of IKS (Dingaka Association of Botswana) and trustees of BOTHASTED. The project will be country wide.

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Botswana Trust for Harnessing of Science and Technology for Economic Development

Country:

Botswana

Area Of Work:

Chemicals

Operational Phase:

Phase 3

Grant Amount:

US$ 50,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 16,500.00

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 10,000.00

Project Number:

BOT/05/15

Start Date:

1/2006

End Date:

12/2012

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Policy Influence

? The project will help with policy implementation; the law enforces on used oil pollution have been facing limitations as the public did not have any facilities to dispose their oil. The availability of such facilities will help make it easier for the law enforcers. ? The public awareness carried out has enlightened the people and they will be no excuses for improper disposal and illegal uses. ? Used oil is one of the ingredients that could be used for bio-fuel, the government has looked into ways of producing such and the used oil collected in these tanks and many others could help in the long run.

Project sustainability

The project is done with partnership from the local authorities and the maintenance of both the tank and the pump lies with the council. The trust through its collectors will facilitate the collection. The trust will also help where necessary with cleaning of spillages.

Replication of project activities

There is a large demand country wide for such facilities. The trust with the help of donors will continue citing tanks around the country for public use. A larger number of places are still without tanks

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Project Results

. The project has also managed to communicate or make consultations to all the council authorities at the

2. The project has managed to invite different companies to quote for the supply and the installation of the pump.

3. Purchasing of the pump
4. Installation of the pump
5. Upon the completion of the installation of the pump the coordinator had to go to the project site (Gantsi land fill). Together with the council authorities and experts thorough checks and inspections were done to establish if the pump was working well .The equipment was also put to use before the signing off the job card for the contracted company.
6. Production of educational material to be distributed at the project area
7. The launch of the tank for public use

2. Comment: Local authorities responded positively to the project initiative and were so willing to help with all the necessary arrangements in their localities so that they could see the project up and running. They are so willing to sensitize the public about the availability of the pump that will speed up the process of transferring used oil into the bigger tank rather than having to climb the stairs which made the public even more reluctant to take their oils to the tank at the landfill.

New Developments and unexpected problems/difficulties during the implementation of the project:

1. Initially the project was planned to be done in Serowe but because of the delays by the Serowe council to put up the required structures to facilitate the installation of pumps the Trust had to conclude that the project be moved to another area where the pump is also needed. Also looking at the fact that the funding has been released very late thus meaning that we are time constrained we had to move the project so that we could start working as soon as possible. An official letter was written to the Serowe council regarding the relocation of the project and a copy was also sent to the donor.

2. The project has also found out that with the change of the project area the proposed budget has under budgeted some items therefore needs revision however it does not change amount of funds requested. The revision will be done here within the organization so that it suits the overall budget of the project

3.Also half way through the project the officer responsible for the project had to leave the trust ,so another person had to take over in that case the (Coordinator)to ensure completion of the project.

Activities yet to be completed

-All the activities we had planned for in this project have been well executed and completed

Remarks/lesson learned:
1. The project needed more time from the project officer for better implementation since more time has been wasted awaiting the release of funds and the delays by the serowe council authorities up until we decided to take the project to another area since more inconveniences were being realized to these delays.

Describe long-term benefits:
1. The long term benefits include a clean and a healthy environment. With less pollution from used oil, the communities will enjoy a clean and productive environment.

2. Business opportunities in used oil collection and recycling could create employment and income for some households. The increase in volumes of recovered oil would enable the industry to come up with a recycling plant which would create employment for the locals

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