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5.2 Planned Efforts
Some of the planned activities that are of relevance to the implementation of the
Stockholm Convention include the following:
a) Completion and adoption of the National Implementation Plan (NIP) for the
Stockholm Convention and its implementation;
b) Disposal of the existing stock of POPs Pesticides amounting to about
1,200 tonnes through the Africa Stockpile Project (ASP) expected to
commence in August, 2005 under the coordination of the National
Environment Management Council (NEMC) and the Ministry of Agriculture
and Food Security; and
c) Operationalisation of the Environmental Management Act (2004) that will
facilitate promulgation of various regulations, guidelines and rules
including those covering POPs Pesticides, DDT and contaminated sites.
This will also entail establishment of public awareness programs on
various aspects of POPs;
6.0 LINKING THE STOCKHOLM CONVENTION TO POVERTY
REDUCTION
6.1 The Poverty-Environment Linkage
The poverty-environmental management is linked in fundamental ways to human
well-being. These linkages are especially critical for people living in poverty in
terms of three key dimensions of human poverty:
a) Livelihoods: poor people tend to be most dependent upon the
environment and the direct use of natural resources for their livelihood
opportunities, and therefore are the most severely affected when the
environment is degraded or their access to natural resources is limited or
denied.
b) Health: poor people suffer most when water, land and the air are polluted,
and environmental risk factors are a major source of health problems in
developing countries
c) Vulnerability: the poor are particularly vulnerable and are most often
exposed to environmental shocks and stresses. Women and children are
particularly susceptible; women make up about 60% of the agricultural
workforce and mothers can transfer as much as one-fifth of their total toxic
body burden to their infant children both prenatally and after birth (through
breast feeding). Therefore, implementation of the Stockholm Convention
must address poverty reduction as a strategy to reduce vulnerabilities of
the poor from the adverse effects of POPs chemicals.
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