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Swedish Support to Africa on chemicals control

UNITAR side event at the Second African regional meeting on

SAICMDar-es-Salaam 16 July 2008

Eva SandbergInternational Secretariat

Swedish Chemicals Agency

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Swedish support to Africa

Tanzania 2006-2009, implementation of national legislation

Regional support for SAICM implementation – Southern Africa 2007- ?

ASP via FAO

NGO via Swedish NGOs

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Why KemI and GCLA?

New legislation on industrial / consumer chemicals – ICCA (2004) in Tanzania

GCLA* turned to KemI – wanted support in implementing the legislation

Capacity development through exchange of experience

*) Government Chemist Laboratory Agency

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Project targets

1. Strengthening of structure for chemicals legislation and enforcement

2. Strengthening of national chemicals management structure (for information and other areas)

3. Strengthening capacity to implement GHS for classification and labelling

4. Public awareness raising

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1. Strengthening of structure for chemicals legislation and enforcement

Strengthening of inspectors

Well functioning chemicals legislationRevision of ICCASecondary legislation

Strengthening of national registerExperience exchange IT

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2. Strengthening of national chemicals management structure (for information and other

areas)

Raising the awareness on chemicals management for selected target groups

Raise the national awareness on obsolete chemicals

Simple database

Training and awareness raising on international chemicals agreements

Seminars

Working group on implementation

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3. Strengthening capacity to implement GHS for classification and labelling

Revision in ICCA for facilitation of implementation

Standardized format for labelling of chemicals and also Safety Data Sheets – information exchange

Awareness raising for workers and general public

3 week training in Sweden, September 2007

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KemI/Southern Africa Regional Project

Contribution towards addressing the challenges articulated in the African Plan of Action for the implementation of SAICM through a Regional approach which would contribute towards three areas:Quality regional decisions influencing Regional

and International TradeStronger management of chemicals influencing

country image and market for products Improved environment, health and quality of life

of citizens

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KemI/Southern Africa Project Components

Undertaking of baseline studies Awareness and training activities

Zambia last year first meeting Information management for the Region Institutional development Promotion of GHS Pilot programmes on cross-sectoral approach

amongst the chemicals MEAs Monitoring and Evaluation Dissemination of the project results

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Asante Sana!Thank you for your

attention!Merci Beaucoup!