Agency’s Project ID: GF/QGL/4030-02-03 (subproject GF7QGL/4030-02-73)
GEFSEC Project ID:
Country: Chile
Country Eligibility: Party to the Stockholm Convention
Project Title: Development of National Implementation Plans for the Management of Persistent Organic Pollutants
Subproject: Development of a National Plan for Implementation of the Stockholm Convention on POPs in Chile
GEF Agency: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Other Executing Agency(ies): Environmental Commission of Chile
Duration: 41 Months (August 2002-December 2005)
GEF Focal Area: POPs
GEF Operational Program: OP14
GEF Strategic Priority: POPs1
Estimated Starting Date: August 2002
IA Fee:
Financing Plan (US$)(Chile Subproject)
GEF Project/Component
Original sub-project / 446,000
Supplementary request / 54,000
Sub-Total GEF
/ 500,000Co-financing
GEF Agency1National Contribution2
Others (Germany) / 19,000
Sub-Total Co-financing: / 19,000
Total Project Financing: / 519,000
*1: UNEP in-kind co-financing amounting to US$ 90,000 provided to umbrella project
*2: National in-kind co-financing includes part-time personnel and operational support to the sub-project via CONAMA and its constituent ministries and agencies
Record of endorsement on behalf of the Government:
Ms Adriana Hoffmann Jacoby, Executive DirectorNational Environmental Commission, Chile / Date: 05/04/2001
This proposal has been prepared in accordance with GEF policies and procedures and meets the standards of the GEF Project Review Criteria for POPs Enabling Activity approval.
Ahmed Djoghlaf
Assistant Executive Director
Director, Division of GEF Coordination
United Nations Environment Programme
Tel:254 20 624166
Fax: 254 20 624041/42
IA contact person / Ahmed Djoghlaf
Assistant Executive Director
Director, Division of GEF Coordination
United Nations Environment Programme
Tel:254 20 624166
Fax: 254 20 624041/42
Project Contact Person
Date: 05/20/2005 / Tel. and email:
pROPOSAL FOR gef Supplemental FUNDING FOR National Implementation Plan on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
1. Project objectives:
Within the overall objective of the Stockholm Convention, which is to protect human health and the environment from POPs, the project will:
i. Develop a comprehensive country driven NIP for reduction and elimination of POPs in compliance with the provisions of the Stockholm Convention
ii. Prepare the ground for implementation of the Convention in the Republic of Chile
iii. Achieve a high level of awareness of the POPs issue and sustained ownership of the NIP among all stakeholders
iv. Assist Chile in meeting its reporting and other obligations under the Convention; and
v. Strengthen Chilean national capacity to manage POPs and chemicals generally.
2. Project activities:
The proposed project activities will follow the step-wise process set out in the GEF “Initial Guidelines for Enabling Activities for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants” and the “UNEP-World Bank Guidance Document on the development of National Implementation Plans”. In summary, these are:
i. Determination of coordinating mechanisms and organization of process, public awareness-raising on POPs and other related hazardous substances;
ii. Assessment and strengthening of national infrastructure and capacity, adaptation of national legislation for Stockholm Convention Implementation and establishment of POPs inventory;
iii. Setting of national priorities and determination of objectives for POPs management;
iv. Development of specific programmes to increase awareness of the public and sectors potentially impacted by chemical pollutants
v. Formulation of a national Implementation Plan and specific Action Plans; and
vi. Endorsement of the National Implementation Plan by Stakeholders
3. Project Duration: 41 months (from the original commencing date of the project in August 2002 to delivery of the endorsed NIP by December 2005)
4. Project expected outcomes:
i. Assessment of national capacity to implement the Stockholm Convention;
ii. Preliminary inventories of POPs;
iii. National Implementation Plan, including specific Action Plans and strategies required to meet Convention obligations;
iv. Strengthened POPs management infrastructure and raised public awareness on POPs; and
v. Capacity to meet reporting obligations under the Stockholm Convention.
Information on institution submitting project brief
5. Information on the organization in the country submitting the proposal:
The project is executed nationally by CONAMA (National Environment Commission) the public institution with responsibility for environmental issues in Chile.
6. Information on the proposed executing organization (if different from above. The grant has to be executed by an organization in the requesting country):
7. Date the proposal was submitted to a GEF Implementing/Executing Agency:
8. Date the proposal was submitted to the GEF Secretariat: 20/5/2005
9. Date the proposal was approved:
10. Date of first Disbursement
Project Progress to Date
The project has proceeded according to its work plan, as amended during execution, based on the GEF ‘Initial guidelines for enabling activities of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants’ and the later UNEP-WB ‘Interim guidance for developing a national implementation plan for the Stockholm Convention’. Several activities, not envisaged in the original project document, were added to this work plan. A detailed summary of the progress to date, and planned activities required to complete the project, are given in the table below.
An independent mid-term review of the overall Global project conducted in late 2004 gave an overall rating of 1 (excellent) for the Chile subproject. It noted that “the implementation approach and project management [in Chile] has been undertaken in a thoroughly professional manner” while its activities and outputs had “…[given] POPs visibility and created problem ownership within the country” and generated a “very large and positive impact on all the multi-stakeholder agencies, private sector, government ministries and non-governmental organization participants”[1].
The results of project inventory and assessment activities have been published in a series of high-quality publications as the project has proceeded. These have been widely distributed and contributed significantly to raising awareness and engagement in the development of the plans and strategies needed to manage POPs in the country. In this way, project task teams have been able to engage stakeholders in priority setting and action planning during the later stages of the assessment activities.
Activities remaining to be completed are the publication of several assessment studies, the final preparation of the National Implementation Plan and its endorsement through both public consultation and high-level agreement.
Table 1: Status of project outputs
Output / Status / Date of Approval by NCC / Comments/remarks1. Updating of National Profile / Completed (edited, printed and distributed); 243 pages / 27/11/2003
2. Technical and Economic Evaluation of POPs Analytical Capacities in Chile / Completed (being edited) / 16/12/2004 / Activity not included in original project
3. Inventory of POPs pesticides
(i) Agricultural pesticides / Completed (edited, printed and distributed); 148 pages / 29/04/2004
(ii) Pesticides of domestic and sanitary uses / Completed (edited, printed and distributed); 37 pages / 11/08/2004
4. Inventory of PCBs / Completed (being edited) / 27/01/2005
5. Inventory of Dioxin and Furan Sources / Completed (edited, printed and distributed); 280 pages / 24/06/2004
6. Development of a Methodology for Survey of POPs Contaminated Sites / Completed (edited, printed and distributed); 160 pages / 12/08/2004
7. Analysis of Existing Data on Possible Effects in the Health by POPs in the Environment / Completed (edited, printed and distributed); 208 pages / 20/10/2004
8. Socio-economics analysis of POPs use / Completed (being edited) / 27/01/2005
9. Analysis of Legal Issues / Completed (edited, printed and distributed); 191 pages / 24/06/2004 / Activity not included in original project
10. Formulation of National Implementation Plan
a. Approval of Outline contents of NIP document / Completed / 08/2004
b. Establishment of Working-Group and meetings / Continues / 08/2004 / 19 working-meetings have been carried out up to date.
c. NIP preliminary draft preparation / Analysis, definition and preliminary drafting of following chapters:
i) objectives and beneficiaries of the Plan,
ii) country baseline,
iii) action plans on POPs pesticides, dioxin and furans, PCBs, contaminated sites
iv) programme of public awareness, information and training. / To be completed end May 2005
11. Endorsement of National Implementation Plan / Planned endorsement process:
i) Management Team of CONAMA (Director and Heads of Departments), / May 2005
ii) National Coordinating Committee, / June 2005
iii) National Committee on Chemical Agenda, / September 2005
iv) Committee of Ministers (13) / December 2005
v) Development of a programme for public consultation and NIP validation: / 4 months, June-September
Supplemental Funds Request
Paragraph 51 of the Global project document noted that “The GEF Council will be deciding in the future on a ceiling for enabling activities for POPs. Once this ceiling is approved, a pilot country that has received less will have the possibility to apply for a supplement of funding up to the ceiling, if this is judged necessary”.
The council decision made in May 2001 GEF/C.17/4, Initial Guidelines for Enabling Activities of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants concluded on the ceiling of 500, 000 USD for Enabling Activities for POPs ( GEF/C.17/4, para 23).
In Chile, several activities not envisaged in the original project document were added to bring outputs into closer conformity with the UNEP-WB interim guidance developed as part of the umbrella activities of the Global project. These were: (i) the assessment and analysis of existing legal and regulatory measures relating to the management of POPs and the actions necessary to adapt these to meet the provisions of the Convention; and (ii) a technical and economic evaluation of POPs analytical capacities in Chile. Both of these activities form components of more-recently approved ‘stand alone’ POPS enabling activities projects.
Additional, unforeseen, costs were generated by the decision to prepare and publish reports and national assessments as the project proceeded. Important benefits have accrued from this approach; in particular in relation to raising awareness and engaging stakeholders early in the process of national implementation planning. As a result, there is both a broad ownership of the POPs problems in the country and a strongly collaborative approach to dealing with them.
During the mid-term review, government agencies engaged in project implementation expressed the view that the project had significantly raised their profile as service units and improved their interaction with their client constituencies, triggering common efforts towards improved POPs and chemicals management and clean-up. The Chemical Association of Chile reported that “this exercise gave Chilean industry a sense of the state-of-the-art regarding issues of POPs; provided an opportunity to meet and exchange views and opinions with the regulators. Chilean industry is very export dependent and this project helped to determine future international (global market) requirements”. The non-governmental organisation RAPAL noted that the project “… will energize the NGOs agenda, it made data available that we would otherwise not see and the project enhanced the concept of transparency on major pollution remediation projects”. The early and progressive publication of project findings contributed in no small way to these opinions.
UNEP suggests that this is an important lesson learned from the pilot project and is encouraging other national agencies engaged in enabling activities to follow suit.
The costs arising from the additional activities amount to approximately US$ 68,000. Some of these costs have been absorbed by savings elsewhere in the subproject budget. However, it has not been possible to absorb all these costs and additional funds amounting to US$ 54,000 are now required to complete the remaining activities:
· the drafting, peer review and final preparation of the NIP
· the stakeholder and official endorsement of the NIP
· the publication and dissemination of the NIP and remaining national assessments
· the supervision of national task teams engaged in the formulation of the NIP, and the organisation of the process of stakeholder and official endorsement[2]
Additional funds are required as follows:
Activities / Budget (US$)1 / Coordination and leadership of endorsement process: to supervise final stages of NIP preparation, publication and dissemination; to organize and oversee stakeholder and official endorsement of NIP, to coordinate all project activities to completion by December 2005 / 35,000
2 / NIP preparation: to complete preparation of the NIP, taking into account responses arising from peer and stakeholder reviews; to facilitate public consultation promoting transparency and public participation in the NIP development process / 11,300
3 / Administrative Support: UNDP support costs for local funds management (5%) / 2,572
4 / Reporting: Publication and dissemination of remaining national assessments and the NIP / 5,128
TOTAL SUPPLEMENTARY BUDGET REQUIREMENT / 54,000
This additional funding will result in an increase of the overall budget of the project “Development of National Implementation Plans for the Management of Persistent Organic Pollutants” .
Implementation plan
In order to complete the remaining project activities and achieve the project objective of a high-quality National Implementation Plan endorsed at high level, a 6 month extension to the subproject is planned. The new completion date is set as 31 December 2005. A detailed implementation plan, showing both the progress of the project to date and the activities planned during the extended execution period is attached as Annex 1.
Sub-Project Budget
Annex 2 provides a full breakdown by object of expenditure of the initial subproject budget, the cumulative expenditure to May 2005, the additional funds requested, and the total required budget. The table includes budgets and expenditure of both the GEF grant and the cash co-financing provided by Germany.
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12 Country Pilot Project: Chile Subproject
Supplemental Funds request. May 2005
Annex 1: Project Implementation Plan
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12 Country Pilot Project: Chile Subproject
Supplemental Funds request. May 2005
Annex 2: Sub-project Budget by object of expenditure
Note: This table includes details of budgets and expenditure of both the GEF grant and the cash co-financing provided to the sub-project by Germany
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12 Country Pilot Project: Chile Subproject
Supplemental Funds request. May 2005
[1] Buxton, V: Sept. 2004. ‘Mid-term evaluation of the 12-country persistent organic pollutants (POPs) national implementation plan development project’. UNEP Evaluation and Oversight Unit
[2] To be performed by the established Project Coordination Unit.