The African 10 Year Framework Programme (10YFP) - UNEP
The African 10 Year Framework Programme (10YFP) - UNEP
The African 10 Year Framework Programme (10YFP) - UNEP
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>African</strong> <strong>10</strong> <strong>Year</strong> <strong>Framework</strong> <strong>Programme</strong> (<strong>10</strong>YFP) on Sustainable Consumption and Production<br />
• Improve the capacity of national and regional standardization<br />
bodies to participate in ISO and other standard setting processes<br />
• Promote the capacity of national standard setting bodies to<br />
promote the adherence to these standards by local producers.<br />
In order to do this the ARSCP must partner with national and regional<br />
standardization bodies and relevant industrial/producer associations to<br />
develop a cohesive approach for the region.<br />
Goal:<br />
• develop an awareness campaign for use by industrial and<br />
producer associations,<br />
• commission a report identifying needs by regional and national<br />
standardization organizations as well as other institutional needs<br />
to promote adherence to product standards<br />
5. Develop an early warning system to determine impacts on<br />
<strong>African</strong> products of planned regulatory changes in other regions,<br />
changes in international standards as well as to avoid the<br />
import of products which may have been recently banned and/or<br />
determined to be of environmental concern in the source country<br />
a. ARSCP to create a special commission to monitor changes in policy,<br />
plans, programs and regulatory regimes within the multilateral<br />
negotiating systems (e.g. WTO) and carry out integrated assessment<br />
( IA) and advise AMCEN. <strong>The</strong> outcomes will be used to support on<br />
the implementation of ITEM I in this project proposal<br />
b. Promote the use of sustainable public procurement policies in the<br />
region by making effective use of government purchasing power<br />
• Develop product guidelines to support sustainable public<br />
procurement in the region<br />
• <strong>The</strong>se guidelines should include economic, quality,<br />
environmental and social considerations including job creation<br />
and value adding criteria<br />
• Promote the adoption of these guidelines by public procurement<br />
and tender authorities<br />
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