1. UNEP activities for QSP strategic priority B Kaj Madsen DTIE, Chemicals Branch

2. Needs assessment Fragmentation of chemicals legislation Lack of institutional coordination Lack of financial resources Lack of capacities to do risk assessment and management

3. UNEP activities under QSP Testing of guidance on prevention of accidents (legislation) in Cambodia and Philippines Cambodia/UNEP partnership on development of a coherent legal and institutional framework in Cambodia for the sound management of chemicals Protecting human health and the environment from mercury in artisanal and small scale gold mining (ASGM) in Asia

4. UNEP activities under QSP Capacity building for POPs laboratories in Cuba under multilateral environmental agreements Capacity building for POPs analysis to support the Global Monitoring Plan of POPs for effectiveness evaluation of the Stockholm Convention (Barbados, Bahamas and Haiti)

5. UNEP activities under QSP Armenia and UNEP Partnership Initiative for Sound Management of Chemicals and Implementation of SAICM in Armenia Moldova and UNEP partnership on capacity building for improving the environmentally sound management of chemicals in the Republic of Moldova and the implementation of SAICM

6. POPs Analytical Capacity Building Two SAICM QSP projects (approved in 4 th round) with Cuba (single-country) and Bahamas, Barbados, and Haiti (multi-country); Objective is training and capacity building of national POPs laboratories to enable them to actively participate in the global monitoring plan on POPs under the Stockholm Convention; Outcomes: –Countries aware of and capable to perform POPs analysis at international standards; –Countries contributing with their own data to the Global Monitoring Plan (GMP) and the effectiveness evaluation (art 16); –For Cuba: creation of the national monitoring network.

7. Monitoring Plan Two core matrices: Mothers’ milk collected in each country according to WHO protocol Ambient air with passive air samplers according to GMP protocol SAICM QSP projects are part of the regional UNEP-GEF GMP project in GRULAC and three regional GMP projects in Africa and the Pacific Air samplers to be shipped