Waste Management and Pollution Control
Helping Pacific communities learn more about unintended release of Persistent Organic Pollutants (uPOPs) through strategic communications activities was at the centre of training completed at SPREP headquarters this month.
The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), through its Global Environment Facility Pacific Alliance for Sustainability (GEFPAS) persistent organic pollutants release reduction project, and SPREP's Communications Unit coordinated the training on education and awareness for Pacific island participants. The training was attended by 12 participating countries including the Cook Islands, FSM, PNG, Marshall Islands, Samoa, Tuvalu, Tonga, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Solomon Islands and Fiji.
"The GEFPAS project aims to reduce emissions of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) arising from poor solid and hazardous waste management practices in the Pacific region" said Ms. Lusiana Ralogaivau the Project Coordinator at SPREP.
"The need for capacity building in communications on uPOPs in the region was highlighted during the development stage of the Project, and communication activities to raise POPs awareness at the national level have been recently submitted by Pacific island countries for funding under the project".
The training conducted at SPREP will help with the development of national work plans for the communication activities related to the project to be completed this year. During the training, participants were provided with effective communications tips as well as support for developing work plans for their national communications efforts to support improved POPs management.
The next step following this training will be the endorsement of communication action plans at the national level and implementation of communication activities at the grass-roots level.
The GEF Pacific POPs release Reduction is a 5-year GEF Funded project, co-funded by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD). UNEP is the project implementing agency.
The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), through its Global Environment Facility Pacific Alliance for Sustainability (GEFPAS) persistent organic pollutants release reduction project, and SPREP's Communications Unit coordinated the training on education and awareness for Pacific island participants. The training was attended by 12 participating countries including the Cook Islands, FSM, PNG, Marshall Islands, Samoa, Tuvalu, Tonga, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Solomon Islands and Fiji.
"The GEFPAS project aims to reduce emissions of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) arising from poor solid and hazardous waste management practices in the Pacific region" said Ms. Lusiana Ralogaivau the Project Coordinator at SPREP.
"The need for capacity building in communications on uPOPs in the region was highlighted during the development stage of the Project, and communication activities to raise POPs awareness at the national level have been recently submitted by Pacific island countries for funding under the project".
The training conducted at SPREP will help with the development of national work plans for the communication activities related to the project to be completed this year. During the training, participants were provided with effective communications tips as well as support for developing work plans for their national communications efforts to support improved POPs management.
The next step following this training will be the endorsement of communication action plans at the national level and implementation of communication activities at the grass-roots level.
The GEF Pacific POPs release Reduction is a 5-year GEF Funded project, co-funded by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD). UNEP is the project implementing agency.