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UNDP Swaziland is supporting capacity development activities to strengthen institutions
for planning, monitoring, and legislation. 3 As a signatory to multilateral agreements,
Swaziland is reviewing its needs and priorities for the implementation of the protocols
on biodiversity, climate change, and land degradation. UNDP also supports efforts that
improve effective environmental management, increase environmental education and
awareness, enable sustainable use of biodiversity, and improve pollution control and
environmental health.
CHEMICALS BIODIVERSITY ENERGY FSSD*
PORTFOLIO
Chinwe Dike, Resident Representative
UNDP is supporting the Government to improve capacities for sustainable development planning. For example, the GEF-funded NCSA
process is working to identify the appropriate needs and priorities for capacity development to assist the country’s implementation of
the Rio Conventions on Biodiversity, Climate Change and Desertification. In addition, the National Strategy for Environmental
Management, supported by UNDP’s Capacity 21 initiative, is designed to increase environmental education in the country, establish efficient
management and use of biodiversity and develop proper waste management and pollution control.
In terms of Climate Change, UNDP has assisted Swaziland in the preparation of its First National Communication to the UNFCCC, with
funding from GEF. In addition to preparing the document itself, the project also played a crucial role in the enhancement of general
awareness and knowledge on climate change-related issues in Swaziland, as well as making an inventory of GHG emissions, analysing
potential abatement and adaptation measures, and prepared a National Action Plan to address climate change and its adverse impacts.
At the strategic level, UNDP is supporting Swaziland to incorporate biodiversity conservation considerations into national planning
through a GEF-funded project developing a National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) with the Swaziland Environment
Authority. The NBSAP builds on and reinforces existing national strategies and plans, such as the National Environmental Action Plan,
and is enabling Swaziland to fulfil its obligations to the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Swaziland is participating in a regional methyl bromide (Me. Br.) phase-out project being implemented by UNDP for low-volume consumers
in Africa. This initiative will allow the country to phase-out its Me. Br. consumption in the soil sector, and put in place appropriate
Me. Br. use regulations, taking into consideration the country's pesticide regulatory regime. Upon completion of the project,
Swaziland will have achieved a 20% phase-out of Me. Br.
CONTACTS
Ms Brenda Ndzinisa – brenda.ndzinisa@undp.org
Tel.: 268-404-2301/2/3
Fax: 268-45341
http://www.undp.org.sz/environment.htm
PARTNERS
Some of our Partners working with
UNDP and the Government in
Swaziland
UNEP
SNTC
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MDGR 2003 http://www.undg.org/documents/5564-Swaziland_MDG_Report_-_MDGR_Part_2.pdf; 2 UNDP Swaziland questionnaire 2005; NEEP website:
http://www.sntc.org.sz/programs/neep.html.; 3 http://www.undg.org/documents/1943-Swaziland_UNDAF_-_Swaziland_UNDAF__May_03.pdf; *Frameworks and Strategies for Sustainable
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