Upcoming Meetings     

October 2012
Eighth meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC8)
Geneva, Switzerland, 15 - 19 October 2012

Upcoming webinars     

Tentative Meetings     

Regional awareness raising workshop on enhancing cooperation and coordination for the implementation of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions for Arabic-speaking countries
Dates: Second half of 2011(to be confirmed)
Venues: Cairo, Egypt 

Training workshop on strengthening legal and regulatory frameworks to implement the Stockholm Convention
Dates: 2011(to be confirmed)
Venue: To be confirmed 

Joint workshops to support effective participation in the Rotterdam Convention Chemicals Review Committee and the Stockholm Convention POPs Review Committee 
Dates: 2011
Venues: To be confirmed

Regional capacity-building workshop on new POPs and the process for reviewing and updating NIPs in the Pacific
Date: 2011
Venue: To be confirmed

All meetings     

SAPP / SADC workshop on PCB Management and Phase-out in the SADC region

The SAPP / SADC workshop on PCB Management and Phase-out in the SADC region was held from 10 to 12 May 2011 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

From 10 to 12 May 2011, the “Southern Africa Power Pool (SAPP) / Southern African Development Community (SADC) workshop on PCB Management and Phase-out in the SADC region” was held in Johannesburg, South Africa. This expert workshop was organised by the Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention, the Africa Institute (a Basel and Stockholm Convention Regional Centre), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Southern Africa Power Pool (SAPP), thanks to the financial contribution from the Norwegian government.

Eleven countries from the SADC region participated in the workshop, mostly through national utilities, and thus members of the SAPP organization, and relevant sector ministries.

The objectives of the workshop were to:

  • Provide SAPP representatives with PCB management training, in particular on environmentally sound management of oil transformers during maintenance activities in order to avoid cross-contamination;
  • Develop workplan for the drafting of PCB management guidelines for SAPP;
  • Identify specific needs of workers in SAPP and develop workplan for the preparation of training materials and organization of training courses, and;
  • Introduce the PEN on POPs Social and assist SAPP representatives to make use of it.

In addition, the idea of a regional Full-Sized Project (FSP), to be partially funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), aiming at PCB management and phase-put in the region, was presented. Participants agreed on the need for such a project, after presenting activities in their individual utilities and countries.

An ambitious workplan was adopted, including decentralized training of personnel in transformer maintenance facilities.

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