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Activities consistent with IPEP guidelines

The IPEP Project encompasses a range of activities which help build adequate support and commitments needed to ensure that appropriate measures to reduce and eliminate POPs and their sources are successfully undertaken.

The following are some suggestions to help participating NGOs zero in on the kind of activities they can undertake in their countries.

Informational and policy documents on POPs   ( show description)
This implies the preparation and dissemination of country-specific and/or country-relevant informational and policy documents and materials. These could be informational documents about POPs, POPs sources, health and environmental impacts, and appropriate alternatives.

These may include:
* Country Situation Reports.
* POPs Hotspot Reports (Contaminated Sites, or Pattern of Practices).
* Policy Briefs that address specific challenges or concerns for Convention implementation.
* Regional Reports.
* AV material, CDs, pamphlets, posters, brochures, etc.

These documents are meant for various audiences and will provide the informational base for other country and local Project activities. In many cases, the preparation of these documents by national and local NGOs may also serve as an educational exercise that assists them in developing their own capacity and information base, and in determining their own national and local priorities.

The documents may also stimulate, facilitate, and support a range of useful, POPs-related NGO activities in the countries.
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NIP development activities   ( show description)
Also available is IPEP support to participate in government-sponsored National Implementation Plans (NIPs) preparation activities and/or to provide substantive and useful informational inputs into the process.

In turn, NGOs may provide government with important policy and information inputs that can contribute to the effective implementation of the Stockholm Convention.
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Public awareness activities and campaigns   ( show description)
IPEP supports broad public awareness-raising activities and/or more targeted efforts in their countries. These activities will often utilise factsheets or other informational literature based on the documents prepared.

The Project also facilitates active campaigns. Some of these campaigns are intended to build understanding among the media and public of the benefits of supporting, ratifying, and implementing the Stockholm Convention. Other campaigns seek to generate a strong national or district response to a more narrowly focussed, POPs-related issue that illustrates the broader concerns associated with POPs.
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Workshops, trainings and other capacity-building activities   ( show description)
The Project supports information and training workshops which are planned and organised by national and/or local NGOs; the target audience is other NGOs and civil society organisations within the country or the region.

These workshops are aimed at increasing knowledge about POPs and related issues among participants, help build a base of support for the Stockholm Convention within the country, and, in many cases, help pave the way for further POPs-related activities. The workshops will, additionally, provide a base of support and interest for NGO and civil society participation in NIP preparations.

In most cases, IPEP will support a single, national workshop in a country. However, in larger countries such as India, the Project may support multiple regional workshops. The audience for these workshops is not the general public. Instead, the workshop audiences could include sectoral leaders, academics, NGOs, specific impacted communities, and/or government personnel.
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Report topics not consistent with IPEP guidelines

Despite their environmental importance, several types of report topics are not consistent with IPEP. These include reports focussed on the following issues without a specific POPs component: radioactive contamination, asbestos, biodiversity, global warming, metals, and pesticides that do not possess POPs properties.

Activities not consistent with IPEP guidelines

Despite their relevance to other NGO campaigns, several types of activities are not consistent with IPEP. These include activities not focussed on chemicals with POPs properties such as public information campaigns on radioactive contamination, asbestos, biodiversity, global warming, metals, and pesticides that do not possess POPs properties.