Thematic Workshop for Chemicals and Waste Management and SAICM Implementation

1. SAICM Implementation: Reflections on Workshop DiscussionWorld Bank Global Environment Unit Environment Department Thematic Workshop for Chemicals and Waste Management and SAICM Implementation Geneva, 19-21 June 2006 Mary-Ellen Foley

2. 1. Ensuring a multisector approach in SAICM implementation 2. Partnerships and stakeholder participation3. Knowledge and capacity building for priority setting and action4. Resources Points considered in the workshop that are crucial to achieving sustainable sound chemicals management at the national level: These elements to SAICM implementation are enhanced within context of development planning and assistance

3. WB Development Assistance and Integrating Sound Chemicals Mgmt • Strategic planning and priority setting at the country level (poverty reduction and the MDGs) • Project development • safeguard and other WB policies • “blending” GEF activities and funding into regular Bank projects in order to secure both local and global benefits • leveraging resources • Analytical and advisory activities Integration or mainstreaming can occur at several points in development assistance including at the strategic level and/or the program and project level

4. WB Development Assistance and Integrating Sound Chemicals Mgmt • Chemicals are a cross-cutting issue and a fundamental aspect of sector and national development • WB approach to development which recognizes interdependence of all development aspects – poverty is multi-dimensional • Means for achieving poverty reduction: MDGs

5. Partnerships/ Stakeholder Participation Knowledge COUNTRY WB (other partners) Analytical work by countries, partners CEAs & SEAs by WB & partners Data/Diagnosis Priorities for Growth & Reducing Poverty WB policies • Participation • Government • Elected • Officials • Civil Society • Private Sector • External • Partners • PRSP/Strategy • macro policies • governance • sector policies • costing & funding • M&E, indicators CAS WB development assistance strategy Investment Operations Environmental Projects TA/Advisory Services Existing Country policies etc. Implementation Loans / Grants Other Development Assistance Strategies Outcomes/Impacts

6. Resources Co-financing that can Complement SAICM Implementation Funding Trustee GEF TF/ SCCF/LCDF Investment Lending As GEF Implementing Agency Technical Support To GEF Development Policy Lending World Bank Lending/ Co-financing SAICM Funding Global Programs & Trust Funds Support to GEF Secretariat Market Mechanisms- Carbon Finance

7. Resources Funds Mobilized for the Environment through GEF Projects

8. Opportunities for Promoting Chemicals Management in Development Planning and Assistance • Provide knowledge and tools and build capacity for informing policy / decision-makers about necessities, costs and benefits, as well as relevant legal obligations, to manage chemicals in a sound manner in specific points of the development planning process • Promote the inclusion of stakeholders in the development planning process These can create buy-in on the importance of mainstreaming specific chemical mgmt issues • Ensure that national strategies on chemicals mgmt are aligned with national development priorities, specific country circumstances and country development planning / budget cycle • Track overall progress at a national level by following a tailor-made road-map, adopting indicators that can be monitored • Look for synergies and efficiencies between chemicals-based MEAs and other agreements

9. World Bank and SAICM • Continue efforts to join IOMC • Continue disseminating information on existing work and opportunities for integrating chemicals management into development assistance • WB Note: Opportunities for Integrating Sound Mgmt of Chemicals into Development Planning • Step up internal information sharing on SAICM and sound chemicals management • Share examples of mainstreaming chemicals management in country assistance strategies and programs and projects

10. World Bank and SAICM • Country case studies • assess the current state of and prospects for chemicals management in three countries at sector and national levels • identify links between sector policies, development priorities and approaches, poverty and chemicals • Identify opportunities for mainstreaming in development planning and policy • lay the groundwork for replicable national approaches to sustainable chemicals management • Part of 2005 Development Grant Facility funding for SAICM and done in partnership with OECD (in cooperation with IOMC) • Two elements critical to case study objectives: country-led cooperation and stakeholder consultation.

15. SAICM Implementation • Banks approach and plans regarding SAICM implementation • Outline thinking on SAICM implementation approach • Reflections on the discussion and outcomes from the past workshop sessions • MDGs – how it was first time developed and developing countries came together and agreed on priorities but in countries it is difficult to convince planners and policy makers • What WB will do – country case studies

16. World Bank and Global Funds • More than 30 years experience in managing trust funds on global programs • Currently\ manages over 850 trust funds valued at over $9 billion yearly covering all major sectors with over 25 which Adaptation Fund overlaps

17. 1. Linkages: Integrating Sound Chemicals Management into Development Priorities • MDGs lay out objectives and timelines for WB client countries to reduce poverty. Goals are pivotal for determining how development should proceed: Poverty is multi-dimensional and not only about income • Sound chemicals management is linked to achieving a number of the MDGs, not only MDG 7 on environmental sustainability, and Target 9 calls for: the integration of the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs