📋 Tender Overview
GEF Project ID
11211
Country
Global
Implementing Agencies
United Nations Development Programme
Approval FY
2024
Status
Project Approved
Region
Global
Executing Agencies
UNDP (Global) – Direct Implementation Modality; Foreign Environmental Cooperation Center – FECO (China) – National Implementation Modality (NIM); Environmental Protection Agency – EPA (Sierra Leone) - Country Office Support to National Implementation Modality; Ministry of Environment (Tunisia) - Country Office Support to National Implementation Modality; Ministry of Environment Urbanization and Climate Change – MoUECC (Türkiye) - Country Office Support to National Implementation Modality; Ministry of Environment (Uruguay) - - Country Office Support to National Implementation Modality.Ministry of Environment of Tunisia; Ministry of Environment of Uruguay; Avfall Sverige; Environment Protection Agency of Sierra Leone; Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change of Türkiye; UNDP (Global) – Direct Implementation Modality; Foreign Environmental Cooperation Center – FECO (China) – National Implementation Modality (NIM)
GEF Period
GEF - 8
Project Type
Full-size Project
Focal Areas
Chemicals and Waste
Funding Source
GEF Trust Fund
Provide a brief summary description of the project, including: (i) what is the problem and issues to be addressed (ii) what are the project objectives, and if the project is intended to be transformative, how will this be achieved iii), how will this be achieved (approach to deliver on objectives), and (iv) what are the GEBs and/or adaptation benefits, and other key expected results. The purpose of the summary is to provide a short, coherent summary for readers. (max. 250 words, approximately 1/2 page)
The proposed Shifting to Zero Waste Against Pollution (SWAP) Initiative aims to reduce chemical pollution in the value chain, and improve resource efficiency, by supporting pilot cities in emerging economies and Least Developed Countries towards a zero-waste vision in line with green chemistry, circular economy, and waste hierarchy principles for sustainable production and consumption. The comprehensive approach of the Initiative will be implemented in five cities: Freetown (Sierra Leone), Kocaeli (Türkiye), Montevideo (Uruguay), Tunis (Tunisia) and Tianjin (China). The Initiative foresees interventions to:
Enable conditions and coherent policies to promote integrated planning and programming at city level towards a long-term vision of zero waste and zero pollution.
Explore special and diverse legal, fiscal and financial steering instruments to promote sustainable investment and cost recovery to address the financial challenges for the transition to a zero-waste city.
Enhance sustainable production and consumption by encouraging the private sectors adopting BAT/BEP to eliminate harmful chemicals in products, promoting eco-design, sustainable consumption and services, building ecosystem from upstream to downstream for
