Support to the Global Monitoring Plan on POPs in the Pacific Islands

Latest information

• Registration for the third round of the “Biennial Global Interlaboratory Assessment of POPs Laboratories” is now closed. It has been very successful with a record number of laboratories having registered.

GMP2 Pacific Inception Workshop

4 - 8 April 2016 - Suva, Fiji

Training Workshop of the UNEP/GEF project on "Global Project on the Updating of National Implementation Plans for POPs" and Inception Workshop for the UNEP/GEF project on "Continuing Regional Support for the POPS Global Monitoring Plan under the Stockholm Convention" in the Pacific Region.

Pre- Workshop Documents

• Regional Report GMP1 - Pacific Region
• Human Milk Survey Protocol (2009) - South Pacific Regional Project
• PFAS analysis in water - Set-up and guidelines for monitoring

Workshop Documents

• Provisional Agenda
• List of Participants

Presentations

• Intro to the process of reviewing a NIP (K. Magulova)
• POPs listed in the Stockholm Convention (J. Alvarez)
• Key outcomes from the human milk surveys (H. Fiedler)
• Capacity Building related to MEAs (A. Fereti)
• Strategy for environmentally sound management of POPs pesticides (F. Grifin)
• Revising and updating inventories of unintentional POPs (K. Magulova)
• Inventories PFOs and PBDEs (J. Alvarez)
• Setting priorities (J. Alvarez)
• Exercise (J. Alvarez & H. Fiedler)
• BRS GMP GEF inception workshop Pacific Islands (K. Magulova)
• GMP2 GRULAC_UNEP (J. Alvarez)
• Highlights and outcomes of the UNEP GEF GMP1 projects (H. Fiedler)
• Human milk survey WHO (M. Meo)
• The role of the expert laboratories (H. Fiedler)
• The role of UNITAR in the GMP2 project (J. Dittkrist)
• Global POPs contamination and trends (K. Magulova)
• GMP Pacific inception - UNEP as an IA (K. Helps)
• IOMC Toolbox (J. Dittkrist)