OBJECTIVE:
Assisting the government in developing and implementing a roadmap toward phasing out mercury added products, Promote public awareness on adverse impacts of mercury added products and availability of mercury free alternative products including Minamata Convention on Mercury, Sensitize and provide training to media, parliamentarians, including border inspectors on Minamata Convention/phase out provisions and monitoring of mercury added products respectively, Strengthen national legal frameworks on mercury added products legislations. This shall include a lobby for adoption of regulations on mercury and their enforcement, Establish and strengthen the national mercury products phase out working group secretariat within CASE towards furthering the development and critical implementation of mercury added products phase out strategy.
ACTIVITIES:
Stakeholder consultation to promote the roadmap towards phasing out mercury added products, stakeholder meetings, review of study on alternatives following the 2016 work, legal gap analysis, draft relevant legislation, assist hospitals to go mercury free with focus on thermometers and shpygmomanometers, regional hub for testing mercury in skin lightening creams with an XRF, media work , advocacy at national and global level.
