Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia

Strengthen national decision making towards ratification of the Minamata Convention and build capacity towards implementation of future provisions

The project objective is to “Undertake a Mercury Initial Assessment to enable the Government of Georgia to determine the national requirements and needs for the ratification of the Minamata Convention and establish a national foundation to undertake future work towards the implementation of the Convention”.
Two principal components will be used as indicators for achieving the Project objective. Component 1: “Enabling environment for decision-making on the ratification of Minamata established” will assure that preconditions such as operational National decision making structure, assessment of policy and regulatory framework and institutional and capacity needs in regard to the implementation of Convention provisions and awareness rising on the environmental and health impacts of Mercury in the country are met. And Component 2: “National Mercury Profile and Mercury Initial Assessment Report developed” which ensure National capacity building to undertake Mercury inventories,  availability of the national mercury profile and availability of the Report for the ratification and implementation of the Convention."

Budget
USD 200,000

Donor
GEF

Implementing Partner
UNDP