Building capacity to control and manage hazardous chemicals and wastes at the ports

Following the Probo Koala dumping, in Côte d'Ivoire, a programme of action was prepared by the Secretariat of the Basel Convention, in consultation with the secretariats of the Stockholm and Rotterdam conventions, with the aim of strengthening the capacity of Côte d’Ivoire to monitor and control transboundary movements of hazardous waste and chemicals (decision VIII/1). After the ninth Conference of the Parties, the Côte d’Ivoire project (funded by the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management Quick Start Programme) was replicated in African Countries with port facilities. The Probo Koala Programme in Africa has the overarching objective to ensure that the Probo Koala incident does not occur again.The training workshop in Mombassa, Kenya, is the second of a series, following the one in Côte d'Ivoire. The workshop is organized by the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources of Kenya and the Africa Institute for the Environmentally Sound Management of Hazardous and other Wastes in cooperation with the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions Secretariat, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the World Health Organization (WHO).More