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Pollution Reduction through Improved Municipal Wastewater Management in Coastal Cities in ACP Countries with a Focus on SIDS

The immediate objectives of the project are as follows: 1.To increase capacity of municipalities in ACP countries to identify and formulate projects to collect and either treat or re-use municipal wastewater that are: a.environmentally friendly, b.technologically feasible, and c.financially sustainable.
About
GEF ID 3181
Project Website URL http://www.gpa.unep.org/
Region Global
Project Contacts
  • Dr. Andrew Hudson
    Principal Technical Advisor, International Waters, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Global Environment Facility
  • Robert Bechtloff
    Programme Officer, UNEP-Division of Environmental Policy Implementation(DEPI),
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Project Documents
  General Information:
Project Type Medium Sized Project
Project Status Project Completion
Start Date
Jun 27, 2006 07:00 AM
End Date
Mar 31, 2010 07:00 AM
 
GEF characteristic:
Operational Programme OP10 - Contaminant-Based Program
Focal Area International Waters
GEF Allocation to project 1.00M US$
Total Cost of the project: 2.20M US$
 
  Partners:
Lead Implementing Agency United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Executing Agencies
Project Description:

The immediate objectives of the project are as follows: 1.To increase capacity of municipalities in ACP countries to identify and formulate projects to collect and either treat or re-use municipal wastewater that are: a.environmentally friendly, b.technologically feasible, and c.financially sustainable. 2.To develop institutional capacity - at the finance committee level - for effective multi-year financial planning; and to strengthen domestic and external resource mobilization, including the “user pays” and “polluter pays” principle, and involvement of the private sector 3.To promote the systematic involvement of stakeholders, such as fisheries, tourism, public health, environmental NGOs and communities, in all stages of the planning process leading to municipal wastewater infrastructure investments; and to improve the knowledge base and strengthen information exchange between practitioners (North-South knowledge transfer and South-South knowledge sharing) and cooperation between project managers and finance planners.

 
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