Building the Capacity of the Russian Federation to Implement the Stockholm Convention on POPs and Develop a National Implementation Plan

This project is designed to build the capacity of the Russian Federation to develop and implement its National Implementation Plan (NIP). In consideration of the scale of the country, and the diversity and complexity of POPs problems, the Russian Federation has opted to develop its NIP via the GEF full project cycle. This proposal was developed through widespread expert consultation facilitated by a PDF-A grant. It proposes further development under a PDF-B grant in order to develop a Full-Sized project that will have as its principal objectives the development of the NIP and capacity building at Federal and region levels in order to implement priority actions.