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21 Feb 2020 Story
The local hero protecting Papua New Guinea from DDT

Joshua Wowo discovered and secured 1,400 boxes of DDT in Papua New Guinea’s East New Britain Province. Now he waits for the day when his township’s toxic timebomb will finally be defused. When Joshua Wowo was a…

14 Dec 2017 Story
Informing action: Pacific nations unite on the environment

With backing from the Global Environment Facility, a new project led by UN Environment is uniting 14 Pacific Island Nations to better track and counter environmental challenges. The people of the Pacific islands…

20 Sep 2010 Terminal project evaluations
Terminal evaluation of the UNEP GEF project: Development of national implementation plans for the management of persistent organic pollutants

This is a terminal evaluation of a UNEP GEF project implemented between 2002 and 2006. The objective of the project was to strengthen national capacity to manage persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and to assist countries in meeting their…

03 Nov 2017 Terminal project evaluations
Terminal evaluation of the UNEP project: Strengthening trade union participation in international environmental processes

This is a terminal evaluation of a UNEP project implemented between 2007 and 2010. The project was designed to address the gap in representation of workers and trade unions in international environmental processes at UNEP, MEAs, and other UN…

03 Nov 2017 Terminal project evaluations
Terminal evaluation of the UNEP GEF project: Indigenous peoples' network for change" (IPNC)

This is a terminal evaluation of a UNEP GEF project implemented between 2005 and 2008. The objectives of this project were: to enhance indigenous peoples' awareness and effective participation in CBD and GEF processes through the establishment…

03 Nov 2017 Terminal project evaluations
Terminal evaluation of the UNEP GEF project: Implementing sustainable water resources and wastewater management in Pacific Island Countries

This report is a terminal evaluation of a UNEP GEF project implemented between 2009 and 2014. The project's main objective was To improve water resource and wastewater management and water use efficiency in Pacific Island Countries in order to…

03 Nov 2017 Terminal project evaluations
Terminal Evaluation of the UNEP GEF Project: Facilitating Financing for Sustainable Forest Management in SIDS and LFCCs

This report is a terminal evaluation of a UNEP-GEF project implemented between 2011 and 2015.The project's overall development goal was Financing mechanisms for SFM are identified and mobilised whereby forests are locally managed to…

03 Nov 2017 Mid-term project evaluations
Mid-term evaluation of the UNEP GEF project: Greening the cocoa industry

This report is a Mid-term evaluation of a UNEP GEF project implemented between 2011 and 2016. The objective of the project was to transform production and business practices in cocoa producing countries and cocoa and chocolate companies such that…

01 Jul 2017 Policy and strategy
Air Quality Policies in Papua New Guinea

This document describes Papua New Guinea's national-level policies that impact air quality. It is based on research that UN Environment conducted in 2015 in response to Resolution 7 of the first UN Environment Assembly.

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