On 18 May 2023 (15:00-16:30 CEST), the Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) hosted a webinar to introduce stakeholders to the basics of National Implementation Plans (NIPs) under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).
The webinar provided parties with the opportunity to explore the structure of NIPs and its chapters, interlinkages with national reporting, and use of an integrated electronic toolkit to support NIP data organization, submission and use.
This is the second webinar in a series of training activities held by the GGKP within the framework of Component 4 of the Global Environment Facility's Global NIP Update Project.
Webinar objectives
- Increase participants’ understanding of the structure of NIP and the scope/types of information to be reflected in its chapters, as well as of the interlinkages with the national reporting
- Strengthen the capacity of participants to transmit their NIPs through an integrated electronic toolkit
Target audience
- Stockholm Convention Official Contact Points and National Focal Points, particularly from project countries
- National officials and experts involved in the process of reviewing and updating the NIPs
- Members of NIP National Coordinating Mechanism/Committees and Project Coordination Units/Thematic Task Groups
- Representatives of regional centres and relevant stakeholders
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15:00 |
1. Welcome and Opening Remarks |
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Moderator: Anastasiya Buchok, Component 4, GGKP |
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Speaker: Melanie Ashton, Component 4 Coordinator, GGKP |
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15:05 |
2. Snapshot of existent knowledge among the project countries on the topics of the current webinar |
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15:10 |
3. Experience and lessons learned from previous NIP updates related to the webinar training topics |
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15:20 |
4. The BASICS of the national implementation plan (NIP) – Part 2 4.1 NIP structure and information to be reflected in its chapters (both qualitative and quantitative), including inventories to be conducted (continuation of Part 1 of the webinar “What is a National Implementation Plan?”) |
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15:55 |
Q&A session |
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16:00 |
4.2 Interlinkages with Stockholm Convention national reporting requested POPs data and the use of the integrated electronic toolkit Speaker: Mihaela Claudia Paun, Programme Management Officer, UNEP, Chemicals and Health Branch, Components 1 and 2 |
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16:20 |
Q&A session |
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16:30 |
Closing remarks |
Please feel free to watch the record of the webinar:
In Russian: https://youtu.be/TyGQDoeoLtY
In Spanish: https://youtu.be/6obaRTfoDDo
In French: https://youtu.be/CJx1WK6nAi8
This event was organized within the framework of Component 4 of GEF-funded and UNEP-led project (ID 10785) "Global Development, Review and Update of National Implementation Plans (NIPs) under the Stockholm Convention (SC) on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)"