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Republic of Armenia PROJECT DOCUMENT United Nations Development Programme Global Environment Facility Country: Republic of Armenia PROJECT DOCUMENT Project Title: Elimination of Obsolete Pesticide Stockpiles and Addressing POPs Contaminated Sites within a Sound Chemicals Management Framework UNDAF Outcome(s): Environmental Sustainability UNDAF Outcome 4: Environment and disaster risk reduction is integrated into national and local development frameworks. Relevant CP/CPAP Outcome(s) and Indicator (s) Outcome: 4.1. Armenia is better able to address key environmental challenges including climate change and natural resource management. Output: 4.1.1. National policies and tools for implementation of and compliance with international environmental agreements are developed and adopted Implementing Partner: Ministry of Nature Protection Responsible Partners: United Nations Development Programme Brief Description The objective of the project is to protect human health and the environment globally as well as locally through elimination of POPs and obsolete pesticide stockpiles, and addressing assocaited contaminated sites within a sound chemicals management framework. The project is directed jointly by the Ministry of Nature Protection and the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Emergency Situations in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture. It will meet this objective by eliminating a large POPs pesticide burial site that represents the major POPs stockpile and waste legacy for the country as well as residual obsolete pesticide stores at 24 locations. In total, approximately 7,100 t of POPs waste in the form of heavily contaminated soil, 1,050 t of POPs pesticides and other obsolete pesticides will be recovered, secured and ultimately treated and destroyed in an environmentally sound fashion. A further 12,700 t of less severely POPs contaminated soil will be securely contained. Additionally the project will provide critically needed hazardous waste infrastructure and national technical capability for the ongoing management of POPs and other chemical hazardous wastes as well as supporting the strengthening of institutional and regulatory capacity within an overall chemicals management framework. Page 1 of 124 Page 2 of 124 Table of contents I. Situation analysis .............................................................................................................................. 7 General country information ............................................................................................................ 7 Foreign relations ................................................................................................................................. 8 General environmental setting .......................................................................................................... 8 National legislative framework on waste and chemicals management ........................................ 10 Current Situation with respect to general POPs and waste management in Armenia .............. 16 Historical Situation respecting POPs pesticides and other obsolete pesticides in Armenia ...... 17 Current situation respecting POPs pesticides and other obsolete pesticides in Armenia .......... 21 Technical capacity analysis respecting hazardous waste and chemicals management .............. 28 II. Barriers ............................................................................................................................................ 42 III. Stakeholder analysis ....................................................................................................................... 44 IV. Linkages with ongoing projects and country drivenness ............................................................ 52 V. Strategy and project design ........................................................................................................... 54 Component 1: Capture and Containment of Obsolete Pesticide Stockpiles and Wastes ......... 61 Component 2: Obsolete Pesticide and POPs Waste Elimination ................................................ 68 Component 3: Institutional and Regulatory Capacity Strengthening for Sound Chemicals management and Contaminated Sites ........................................................................................... 70 Component 4: Project Monitoring and Evaluation ..................................................................... 73 Project Design Option and Risk Management ............................................................................. 73 Non-GEF Baseline Project ............................................................................................................. 77 VI. Incremental reasoning and benefits .............................................................................................. 81 Incremental reasoning .................................................................................................................... 81 Global Environmental Benefits ...................................................................................................... 81 National Development Benefits ...................................................................................................... 82 VII. Replicability ................................................................................................................................ 82 VIII. Management Arrangements .................................................................................................... 83 IX. Monitoring Framework and Evaluation ....................................................................................... 87 X. Legal Context .................................................................................................................................. 92 XI. Annexes ............................................................................................................................................ 94 Annex A. Project Results Framework ........................................................................................... 94 Annex B. Total Budget and Work Plan ....................................................................................... 107 Annex C. Risk analysis ................................................................................................................. 111 Annex D. Agreements and Letters of Support ........................................................................... 113 Annex E. Terms of Reference of Key Project Personnel ........................................................... 114 Annex F. UNDP Environmental and Social Screening Report ................................................. 118 Annex G. Letter of Agreement on Direct Project Services (draft at submission time) ........... 119 Annex H. GEF POPs tracking tool (attached separately at submission time in Excel) .......... 123 Page 3 of 124 List of Tables Table 1. International conventions and multilateral agreements signed, ratified and acceded to by Armenia ....................................................................................................................................................... 9 Table 2. Legal Acts and Regulatory Measures Governing Chemicals and Hazardous Waste Management .............................................................................................................................................. 10 Table 3. Inventory of obsolete pesticides recorded as being deposited in the Nubarashen burial site (data provided by AWHHE) .................................................................................................................... 20 Table 4. In-situ and excavated estimates of POPs waste and contaminated soil by Category (Courtesy Tauw/OSCE) ............................................................................................................................................. 24 Table 5. Obsolete Pesticide Storehouse Inventory and Site Screening Information ........................... 30 Table 6. Capacity assessment of state, academic and private organizations with relevant laboratory capacities on obsolete pesticides............................................................................................................... 36 Table 7. Roles and functions of principle institutional stakeholder ..................................................... 45 Table 8. Roles and functions of external (non-government) stakeholders ........................................... 50 Table 9. POPs waste volumes by prioritized category used for project design ................................... 54 Table 10. Elaborated project design framework and cost estimate by Outcome, Output and Activity .................................................................................................................................................................... 56 Table 11. Baseline project and cost estimate (Expected Expenditures during the planned 4-5 year project without GEF funding) ................................................................................................................. 78 List of Figures Figure 1. Location of the Nubarashen burial site relative to its surroundings .................................... 19 Figure 2. Overview of the Nubarashen burial site ................................................................................. 23 Figure 3. Location of the five cells and the landfill body features ........................................................ 23 Figure 4. Final configuration of
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