The Africa Environmental Health and Pollution Management Program for Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania and Zambia aims to reduce exposure to mercury and uPOPs pollution at pilot sites and strengthen the institutional capacity to manage and regulate mercury use in artisanal small-scale gold mining and e-waste in selected countries in Africa.  The project comprises four components: 1) building institutional capacity and knowledge to address health risks from chemical releases; 2) enhancing policy and regulation to align with environmental policies; 3) implementing cleaner technologies in contaminated areas; and 4) supporting project coordination, management, and monitoring at national and local levels. All indicators have a baseline year of 2019 and a target year of 2025. Indicators correspond to the project’s development objective indicators and intermediate results indicators, which can be found here.

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The World Bank Group Corporate Scorecard seeks to track results across all World Bank financing institutions, providing a comprehensive overview of progress towards the Bank’s vision of eradicating poverty on a livable planet. It encompasses a diverse set of indicators derived from extensive consultations, focusing on outcomes rather than inputs to underscore accountability and impact. Indicators for this framework are client context indicators defined by the World Bank that serve to frame the challenges clients face and the context in which the World Bank Group operates.

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The Minamata Convention on Mercury, adopted in 2013, is a global treaty to protect human health and the environment from the adverse effects of mercury. Key features of the Convention include prohibiting the establishment of new mercury mines, gradually discontinuing current ones; reducing mercury use in various products and procedures; implementing controls on air emissions and land and water discharges; proper storage and disposal of mercury waste; remediation of mercury-contaminated sites; and regulating artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the informal sector. Indicators for this framework correspond to Minamata’s own set of indicators as part of its effectiveness evaluation of the implementation of the Convention.

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The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, adopted in 2001, serves as a global treaty to protect human health and the environment from chemicals that remain intact in the environment for long periods, become widely distributed geographically, accumulate in the fatty tissue of humans and wildlife, and have harmful impacts on human health or the environment. Its provisions encompass prohibiting and/or eliminating the production, use, import, and export of intentionally produced POPs; reducing or eliminating releases of unintentionally produced POPs; ensuring safe management of stockpiles and wastes containing POPs; regulating additional POPs; and addressing various aspects including implementation plans, information exchange, public awareness, research, technical assistance, financial resources, reporting, effectiveness evaluation and non-compliance. Indicators for this framework correspond to Stockholm’s framework for effectiveness evaluation, which can be found here.

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The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste and their Disposal was adopted in 1989 to protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects of hazardous waste. The Convention seeks to: 1) reduce hazardous waste generation and promote the environmentally sound management of hazardous waste, regardless of their place of disposal; 2) restrict the transboundary movement of hazardous waste, except if it is by the principles of environmentally sound management; and 3) establish a regulatory system applicable to cases where transboundary movements are permissible. Indicators for this framework correspond to Basel’s own set of indicators for measuring achievement and performance of the strategic framework.

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The Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2015, are a universal initiative urging action to eradicate poverty, safeguard the environment and promote peace and prosperity for all by 2030. Compromising 17 goals and  169 targets, they underscore the interdependence between social, economic, and environmental sustainability essential for comprehensive development. Indicators for this framework correspond to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the SDG Index indicators used to provide an annual assessment of SDG progress in all UN member states.

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