Capacity Strengthening for Implementation of Minamata Convention on Mercury Project

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The development objective of Capacity Strengthening for Implementation of Minamata Convention on Mercury Project for China are to (a) develop a national strategy on mercury and related action plans; and (b) improve China’s mercury management capacity and readiness to implement this strategy in the project provinces. there are three components in this project. 1) The firs component, Development of National Strategy and Sectoral and Provincial Action Plans, aims at delivering the National Mercury Strategy and related action plans. 2) The second component, Capacity Strengthening for Mercury Management and Risk Assessment, aims at building capacity for mercury management in the MEP, DEPs from the three pilot provinces and other stakeholders through targeted activities and establishing some of the building blocks that will support China’s long-term environmentally sound management of mercury, and mercury reduction and phase-out efforts. 3) The third component, Project Management, will support Foreign Economic Cooperation Office (FECO) to properly manage project implementation in collaboration with the provincial Department of Environmental Protections (DEPs) of the pilot province.