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Calendar of meetings 2009 - 2011 organized by the Secretariat
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Meetings organized by the secretariat 
 
  STATUS:  (C) Completed      (S) Scheduled      (T) Tentative

Date  Type  Title  Venue  Status

23/Feb/2009
24/Feb/2009 		FAO and UNEP regional offices Consultation with Regional and Sub-regional Officers of FAO on technical assistance for the implementation of the Rotterdam Convention Rome, Italy (C)

23/Feb/2009
27/Feb/2009 		Developing National Action Plan (NAP) National Consultation to identify elements of a National Action Plan or strategy for the implementation of the Rotterdam Convention in South Africa Durban, South Africa (C)

22/Jun/2009
26/Jun/2009 		Thematic meeting Thematic Meeting on Trade Related Issues under the Rotterdam Convention for the European Community and Selected Trade Partners Cyprus (C)

19/Oct/2009
22/Oct/2009 		Thematic meeting: trade related issues Thematic Meeting on Trade Related Issues under the Rotterdam Convention for China and Selected Trade Partners China (C)

19/Oct/2009
23/Oct/2009 		Training and Awareness Raising /Final Regulatory Actions (FRA) Awareness Raising of the Rotterdam Convention and training on strengthening chemicals management and implementation of the key obligations of the Convention / Assistance in completion and submission of Final Regulatory Actions. (Francophone Africa) Accra, Ghana (C)

28/Oct/2009
30/Oct/2009 		Joint delivery with SC: Public awareness activities Regional Awareness Raising Workshop on Enhancing Cooperation and Coordination for the implementation of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions Pretoria, South Africa (C)

2/Nov/2009
6/Nov/2009 		Joint delivery with SC: Public awareness activities Awareness Raising of the Rotterdam Convention and training on strengthening chemicals management and implementation of the key obligations of the Convention / Assistance in completion and submission of Final Regulatory Actions. (Anglophone Africa) Pretoria, South Africa (C)

17/Nov/2009
19/Nov/2009 		Joint delivery with SC: CRC/POPRC meetings Joint Workshop of the Rotterdam and the Stockholm Conventions for effective participation in the work of the Review Committees - CRC and POPRC in Africa Cairo, Egypt (C)

23/Nov/2009
25/Nov/2009 		Joint delivery with SC: Public awareness activities Regional Awareness Raising Workshop on Enhancing Cooperation and Coordination for the implementation of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions in South America Montevideo, Uruguay (C)

23/Nov/2009
27/Nov/2009 		Joint delivery with SC: Clearing house mechanism activities Awareness Raising of the Rotterdam Convention and training on strengthening chemicals management and implementation of the key obligations of the Convention / Assistance in completion and submission of Final Regulatory Actions (EECCA countries), including pilot testing of some elements of the Clearing House Mechanism for the Rotterdam Convention. Armenia (C)

8/Dec/2009
10/Dec/2009 		Joint delivery with SC: CRC/POPRC meetings Orientation workshop for members of the Chemical Review Committee Budapest (C)

27/Jan/2010
31/Jan/2010 		Industrial chemicals Rotterdam Convention/WHO - Awareness-raising and strengthening of Industrial chemicals management – meeting back-to-back with SAICM Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (C)

1/Mar/2010
5/Mar/2010 		Developing National Action Plan (NAP) National consultation to identify elements of a National Action Plan or strategy for the implementation of the Rotterdam Convention for Uganda Entebbe, Uganda (C)

13/Mar/2010
13/Mar/2010 		Industrial chemicals Industrial Chemicals Meeting Jamaica (C)

15/Mar/2010
19/Mar/2010 		Training and Awareness Raising Sub-regional Training workshop for Central and Latin American countries El Salvador (C)

5/Apr/2010
9/Apr/2010 		Developing National Action Plan (NAP) Subregional National Action Plan workshop Botswana (C)

19/Apr/2010
21/Apr/2010 		Joint delivery with SC: Public awareness activities Regional Awareness Raising Workshop on Enhancing Cooperation and Coordination for the Implementation of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions in Asia Beijing, China (C)

25/Apr/2010
28/Apr/2010 		Developing National Action Plan (NAP) National Action Plan Meeting Tripoli, Libya (C)

3/May/2010
7/May/2010 		Thematic meetings: SPHF Severely Hazardous Pesticides Formulations workshop Lomé, Togo (C)

22/May/2010
2/Jun/2010 		Working directly with individual countries Directly working with countries Bissau, Cotonou, Kinshasa (C)

7/Jun/2010
11/Jun/2010 		Awareness and Training Subregional training workshop for Asia Vietnam (C)

8/Jun/2010
10/Jun/2010 		Joint delivery with SC: CRC/POPRC meetings Joint workshop of the Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions for Effective Participation in the Review Committees’ Work – CRC and POPRC Latin America (C)

20/Jun/2010
24/Jun/2010 		Developing National Action Plan (NAP) National Action Plan meeting Aleppo, Syria (C)

28/Jun/2010
2/Jul/2010 		Developing National Action Plan (NAP) National planning meeting on the implementation of the Rotterdam Convention in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Pyongyang (C)

12/Jul/2010
16/Jul/2010 		Developing National Action Plan (NAP) Subregional National Action Plan meeting in Africa Kigali, Rwanda (C)

31/Aug/2010
3/Sep/2010 		Industrial chemicals Workshop Industrial Chemicals Management in Asia-Pacific (focus on asbestos) Bangkok, Thailand (C)

31/Aug/2010
3/Sep/2010 		Industrial chemicals Awareness Raising Meeting on Industrial Chemicals (back to back) Bangkok, Thailand (C)

20/Sep/2010
22/Sep/2010 		Joint delivery with SC: Public awareness activities Regional Awareness Raising Workshop on Enhancing Cooperation and Coordination for the implementation of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions in Middle East Bratislava, Slovakia (S)

27/Sep/2010
1/Oct/2010 		Working with Partners Joint Consultation of Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions with the Basel and Stockholm Convention Regional Centres and FAO and UNEP Regional Offices (S)

28/Sep/2010
30/Sep/2010 		Thematic meetings: SPHF Severely Hazardous Pesticide Formulations workshop Syria (S)

25/Oct/2010
29/Oct/2010 		Developing National Action Plan (NAP) National Action Plan meeting Antananarivo, Madagascar (S)

25/Oct/2010
29/Oct/2010 		National Action Plan for ratification and implementation Subregional National Action Plan meeting Ukraine (S)

15/Nov/2010
19/Nov/2010 		Developing National Action Plan (NAP) Subregional meeting to identify elements of National Action Plan or strategy for the implementation of Rotterdam Convention : Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile,Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay Santiago, Chile (S)

22/Nov/2010
24/Nov/2010 		Awareness raising Regional Awareness Raising Workshop on Enhancing Cooperation and Coordination for the Implementation of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions for Western Asia and Northern Africa Cairo, Egypt (S)

6/Dec/2010
8/Dec/2010 		Joint delivery with SC: Public awareness activities Regional Awareness Raising Workshop on Enhancing Cooperation and Coordination for the Implementation of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions for Northern and Western Africa Dakar, Senegal (S)

TBD Working directly with individual countries Notifications - Country visits TBD (T)

TBD Thematic meetings: SPHF Severely Hazardous Pesticides Formulations meeting - Africa TBD (T)

TBD Thematic meetings: SPHF Severely Hazardous Pesticides Formulations meeting - Asia TBD (T)

TBD Thematic meetings: SPHF Severely Hazardous Pesticides Formulations Meeting - Latin America and the Caribbeans TBD (T)

2011 Developing National Action Plan (NAP) National Action Plan meeting - Asia (T)

2011 Developing National Action Plan (NAP) National Action Plan meeting - CILSS countries CILLS countries (T)

2011 Developing National Action Plan (NAP) National Action Plan meeting - Latin America and Caribbeans (T)

2011 Thematic meetings: SPHF Follow-up phases to Severely Hazardous Pesticides Formulation inception workshop (T)

2011 Fostering cooperation among DNAs DNA subregional meeting - Asia and Pacific (T)

2011 Fostering cooperation among DNAs DNA subregional meeting - Africa (T)

2011 Joint delivery with SC: CRC/POPRC meetings CRC orientation meeting (T)

2011 Thematic meetings: SPHF Severely Hazardous Pesticides Formulation subregional workshop - Africa (T)

2011 Joint delivery with SC: Public awareness activities Synergies Francophone (T)

2011 Working directly with individual countries Countries visit: Notifications (T)

July 2010 Developing National Action Plan (NAP) National Action Plan Meeting Bishkek (T)

December 2010 Fostering cooperation among DNAs Orientation Meeting for Pool of Experts on Technical Assistance N/A (T)

November 2010 Joint delivery with SC: CRC/POPRC meetings Joint workshop of the Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions for Effective Participation in the Review Committees’ Work – CRC and POPRC Sri Lanka (T)

To be determined Industrial chemicals Industrial chemicals meeting (I) To be determined (T)

To be determined Industrial chemicals Industrial chemicals meeting (II) To be determined (T)

To be determined Industrial chemicals Industrial chemicals meeting (III) To be determined (T)

To be determined Industrial chemicals Industrial chemicals meeting (IV) To be determined (T)

To be determined Industrial chemicals Industrial chemicals meeting (V) To be determined (T)

To be determined Thematic meetings: Resource mobilization Resource mobilization sub-regional workshop (I) To be determined (T)

To be determined Thematic meetings: Resource mobilization Resource mobilization sub-regional workshop (II) To be determined (T)

To be determined Thematic meetings: Resource mobilization Resource mobilization sub-regional workshop (III) To be determined (T)

To be determined Thematic meetings: Resource mobilization Resource mobilization sub-regional workshop (IV) To be determined (T)

To be determined Joint delivery with SC: Clearing house mechanism activities Clearing house mechanism training workshop (I) To be determined (T)

To be determined Joint delivery with SC: Clearing house mechanism activities Clearing house mechanism training workshop (II) To be determined (T)

To be determined Joint delivery with SC: Clearing house mechanism activities Clearing house mechanism training workshop (III) To be determined (T)

To be determined Joint delivery with SC: Clearing house mechanism activities Clearing house mechanism training workshop (IV) To be determined (T)

Meetings organized by partners in collaboration with the Secretariat
 
   STATUS:  (C) Completed      (S) Scheduled      (T) Tentative

Date  Type  Title  Venue  Status

26/Jan/2009
27/Jan/2009 		Thematic meeting Green Customs Initiative Partners meeting Brussels (C)

9/Mar/2009
13/Mar/2009 		Thematic meeting Caribbean workshop on SAICM and related chemicals and hazardous waste management instruments Bridgetown, Barbados (C)

7/Apr/2009
8/Apr/2009 		Thematic meeting Regional Workshop on Successful Experiences Implementing the Stockholm Convention in Mediterranean region and synergies with Basel Convention & Stockholm Convention Barcelona (C)

20/Apr/2009
21/Apr/2009 		Thematic meeting The International Expert Conference on Asbestos and Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPS) Policies and Practices in Kazakhstan and European Union Kazakhstan (C)

28/Apr/2009
29/Apr/2009 		Thematic meeting GCI National Green Customs workshop Mongolia (C)

29/Apr/2009
30/Apr/2009 		National meetings Rapport de l'atelier national de sensibilisation sur la mise en œuvre de la Convention de Rotterdam au Gabon Libreville, Gabon (C)

6/May/2009
7/May/2009 		National meetings Atelier national de suivi de la mise en œuvre de la Convention de Rotterdam Kinshasa (C)

25/May/2009
29/May/2009 		Thematic meeting WCO Regional Green Customs workshop Delhi, India (C)

8/Jun/2009
12/Jun/2009 		Developing National Action Plan (NAP) National consultation to identify elements of a National Action Plan or strategy for the implementation of the Rotterdam Convention for Togo Lome, Togo (C)

24/Jun/2009
26/Jun/2009 		Organized by Partners WHO Inception Workshop on Severely Hazardous Pesticide Formulations. Tanzania (C)

7/Jul/2009
9/Jul/2009 		MEA Programme in ACP countries, Needs Assessment workshop for the African hub Nairobi, Kenya (C)

7/Jul/2009
10/Jul/2009 		Thematic meeting WCO Regional Green Customs workshop Mombasa, Kenya (C)

28/Jul/2009
29/Jul/2009 		UNITAR/Basel Convention, Development of GHS Training Modules in the Context of Africa - pilot testing workshop Ibadan, Nigeria (C)

29/Jul/2009
30/Jul/2009 		Thematic meeting WHO Briefing Meeting to lead into test phase of the draft WHO Risk Assessment Toolkit (RA Toolkit) Bangkok, Thailand (C)

29/Jul/2009
31/Jul/2009 		Thematic meeting GCI Sub-regional Green Customs workshop Nigeria (C)

31/Aug/2009
4/Sep/2009 		Asia Pacific Plant Protection Commission (APPPC) 26th Session of the Asia and Pacific Plant Protection Commission India (C)

2/Sep/2009
2/Sep/2009 		Thematic meeting FAO - Pesticide Regulators Consultation Pretoria, South Africa (C)

8/Sep/2009
10/Sep/2009 		MEA Programme in ACP countries, Needs Assessment workshop for the Caribbean hub Georgetown, Guyana (C)

14/Sep/2009
16/Sep/2009 		MEA Programme in ACP countries, Needs Assessment workshop for the African hub Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (C)

14/Sep/2009
18/Sep/2009 		Convention on Biological Diversity, Africa Regional Training of Trainers’ Workshop on the Identification and Documentation of Living Modified Organisms (LMOs) under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (incl. session on Green Customs Initiative) Bamako, Mali (C)

28/Sep/2009
30/Sep/2009 		Thematic meeting 2nd workshop for Stockholm Convention for regional centres Geneva (C)

12/Oct/2009
15/Oct/2009 		Thematic meeting 3rd Meeting of the Multilateral Environmental Agreements Regional Enforcement Network (MEA-REN) Bangkok, Thailand (C)

14/Oct/2009
16/Oct/2009 		Thematic meeting GCI Regional workshop (EECCA countries) Budapest, Hungary (C)

20/Oct/2009
22/Oct/2009 		WTO Regional workshop on Trade and Environment for Middle East and Arab countries Amman,Jordan (C)

26/Oct/2009
29/Oct/2009 		Regional Symposium on Chemicals Management in Arab States Damascus, Syria (C)

29/Oct/2009
30/Oct/2009 		Review meeting of the WHo Risk Assessment Toolkit Lyon, France (C)

2/Nov/2009
2/Nov/2009 		Basel Convention, Planning meeting on the project aimed at strenghtening the capacity of Cote d'Ivoire to monitor and control the transboundary movements of chemicals and wastes Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (C)

9/Nov/2009
12/Nov/2009 		MEA Programme in ACP countries, Needs Assessment workshop for the Pacific hub Apia, Samoa (C)

17/Nov/2009
17/Nov/2009 		Developing National Action Plan (NAP) National Follow Up Seminar to the National Action Plan or strategy for the implementation of the Rotterdam Convention in Belize Belize (C)

23/Nov/2009
27/Nov/2009 		Convention on Biological Diversity, Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Training of Trainers' Workshop on the Identification and Documentation of Living Modified Organisms under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (incl.session on Green Customs Initiative) Mexico City, Mexico (C)

24/Nov/2009
26/Nov/2009 		Thematic meeting GCI Regional Green Customs workshop Santo Domingo (C)

30/Nov/2009
2/Dec/2009 		GCI India/Nepal Border Dialogue on Controllong Trade on Green Customs Initiative Issues Nepalganj/Rupaidiah, India/Nepal border (C)

2/Dec/2009
3/Dec/2009 		Thematic meeting Workshop on Case Studies in the Sound Management of Chemicals Geneva, Switzerland (C)

14/Dec/2009
16/Dec/2009 		Organized by Partners International meeting on Global Trends in Chemicals Management and the Role for Integrating (Mainstreaming) the Sound Management of Chemicals in Development Policies and Plans: Assessing Status and Building Consensus on Next Steps in a Global Work Programme Geneva, Switzerland (C)

14/Jan/2010
15/Jan/2010 		Organized by Partners Consultation Meeting Capacity Building Brokering Tool Jogny, Switzerland (C)

25/Jan/2010
29/Jan/2010 		Organized by Partners SAICM Regional Meeting Abidjan (C)

1/Feb/2010
1/Feb/2010 		Individual visit to countries Country visit to Colombia Colombia (C)

8/Feb/2010
8/Feb/2010 		Organized by Partners Meeting of the Probo Koala Project Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (C)

9/Feb/2010
10/Feb/2010 		Organized by Partners Green Customs Initiative Partners Meeting Geneva, Switzerland (C)

2/Mar/2010
5/Mar/2010 		Organized by Partners WCO Enforcement Committee Meeting Brussels (C)

5/Mar/2010
13/Mar/2010 		Organized by Partners SAICM Meeting for Latin America and the Caribbeans Jamaica (C)

8/Mar/2010
11/Mar/2010 		Organized by Partners Regional Training Workshop on PCBs and POPs wastes Mali (C)

11/Apr/2010
14/Apr/2010 		Organized by Partners Subregional workshop on Mercury Egypt (C)

13/Apr/2010
15/Apr/2010 		Organized by Partners Green Customs Workshop Beirut, Lebanon (C)

14/Apr/2010
15/Apr/2010 		Organized by Partners Partners Meeting for the Implementation of the Libreville Declaration on Health and Environment Nairobi (C)

29/Apr/2010
30/Apr/2010 		Organized by Partners First Expert Group Meeting on the Development of Legal and Institutional Infrastructures and Cost Recovery Measures for the Sound Management of Chemicals Geneva (C)

12/Jul/2010
16/Jul/2010 		Organized by Partners Green Customs workshop Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (C)

27/Jul/2010
28/Jul/2010 		Organized by Partners Regional Workshop on the Environmentally Sound Management of Asbestos Wastes Bangkok (C)

10/Aug/2010
12/Aug/2010 		Industrial chemicals Sub-regional Consultative Committee on Chemicals Management Ibadan, Nigeria (C)

23/Aug/2010
25/Aug/2010 		National Green Customs Workshop Vietnam (C)

1/Sep/2010
3/Sep/2010 		Joint delivery with SC: Customs training activities National Green Customs Workshop Indonesia (C)

13/Sep/2010
15/Sep/2010 		Joint delivery with SC: Customs training activities National Green Customs Workshop Malawi (S)

19/Sep/2010
22/Sep/2010 		4th Workshop of the Multilateral Environmental Agreement Regional Enforcement Network Beijing, China (S)

27/Sep/2010
1/Oct/2010 		Organized by Partners Green Customs Workshop Turkmenistan (S)

4/Nov/2010
5/Nov/2010 		Organized by Partners Regional Workshop on the Environmentally Sound Management of Asbestos Wastes China (S)

September 2010 Organized by Partners SAICM Regional Meeting TBD (T)