Tanzania Multi Stakeholder Map - WebNG
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During the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel<br />
Convention, (Decision III/19) held in Geneva September 1995 it was<br />
agreed to establish a network of Regional and Sub-regional Centres for<br />
Training and Technology Transfer in all the regions. For the African<br />
region Senegal was designated to host a centre for French speaking<br />
countries, Egypt for Arabic-speaking countries in Africa, South Africa for<br />
English speaking countries and Nigeria to host a Coordinating Centre.<br />
The overall objectives for establishing these centres is to strengthen the<br />
capacity of governments of the regions in complying with the technical,<br />
legal and institutional requirements in sound management of hazardous<br />
wastes as specified by the Basel Convention.<br />
8.0 Bamako Convention<br />
Article 11 of the Basel Convention permits Parties to enter into Bilateral,<br />
<strong>Multi</strong>lateral or Regional agreements/arrangements regarding<br />
transboundary movement of hazardous wastes or other wastes with<br />
Parties or non-Parties provided that such agreements do not contravene<br />
the provisions of the Basel Convention.<br />
During the Conference of the plenipotentiaries in Basel, March 1989 which<br />
adopted Basel Convention, the African States present at that meeting<br />
were not satisfied with the provisions of the Basel Convention particularly<br />
the issue of transboundary movement of hazardous wastes to developing<br />
countries which by then disregarded the limited capacity of developing<br />
countries in sound management of hazardous wastes and other wastes.<br />
As an alternative measure the African States met in Mali, Bamako where<br />
they adopted on 30 th January 1991 a regional Treaty focusing on ban for<br />
any purpose the import of hazardous wastes into Africa. This treaty was<br />
titled “The Bamako Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and<br />
the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous<br />
Wastes within Africa”. It came into force on 22 nd April 1998 after 10<br />
instruments of ratification. To-date there are 18 States are Parties to this<br />
Convention.<br />
8.1 Objectives of Bamako Convention<br />
The key objectives of this Convention are: -<br />
⇒ To ban the importation of hazardous wastes and substances into Africa<br />
for human health and environmental reasons;<br />
⇒ To minimize the generation of hazardous wastes in terms of both<br />
quantity and hazard potential;<br />
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