Basel Conventions Regional
Center
In Tehran
BUSINESS PLAN
2012 - 2013
March 2012
Tehran, Iran
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TABLEOFCONTENTS
Executive Summary of the Business Plan (2012-2013)….......................4
I.
Information for the Center………….........................................6
A. Vision…………………………………………………...6
B. Background.……………………………………….........5
C. Governance.…………………………………………….7
D. Contact information.…………………………………....8
II.
The Center and the Basel Convention………………………....9
A. Performance of the core functions……………………...9
B. Opportunities for improvement………………………....9
C. Cooperation with the Rotterdam and
Stockholm Conventions……………………………......9
D. Joint activities…………………………………............10
E. Partnership activities…………………………….…….11
III.
Regional needs Assessments ………………………………...12
IV.
Proposed activities…………………………...........................14
A. Maintenance of the Center and staff training
activities…………………………………………….....14
B. Activities for the implementation of the Strategic
Framework and other COP-10 decisions .……………15
a. Vision….………………………………………..15
b. Guiding principles……….……………………...16
c. Strategic goals and objectives….……………….16
C. Synergies related activities………………....................17
D. Other capacity building activities………………..........18
V.
Financial information
A. Financial information about the Center ………...........19
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B. Main partner institutions………...................................20
C. Proposed budget for activities (2012-2013)..................21
Annex
I- List of focal points and endorsements..........................................23
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ExecutiveSummaryoftheBusiness
Plan
This Business Plan is provided for the period 2012-2013 in order to
extend
the
implementation of
Basel
Convention,
improve
the
effectiveness of the Convention and identification of needs in South and
West Asia.
Basel Convention Regional Center in Tehran is established according to
the Decision VII/10 of the Seventh Meeting of the Conference of the
Parties (COP 7) to the Basel Convention in October 2004.
The role of the BCRC in Iran is to assist member states and non-member
states through capacity building for the environmentally sound
management of hazardous waste and other wastes and the minimization
of their generation to achieve the fulfillment of the objectives of the
convention. The core functions of the center are including training of the
staff in BCRC in Tehran and the representatives from member states and
non-member states, technology transfer to the region, awareness raising,
conducting workshops, seminars and associated projects and cooperating
with UN and its bodies and other relevant intergovernmental and NGO’s
(Non-Governmental Organizations).
According to the framework agreement between the Secretariat of Basel
Convention and the Government of Islamic Republic of Iran, the Basel
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Convention Regional Center in Tehran is established at the Department of
Environment, Islamic Republic of Iran.
Due to strengthen the implementation of wastes management in the
region, we organized regional and national training courses and meetings
at least two times a year.
The budget for 2012-2013 consists of USD 872000 allocated to BCRCTehran activities.
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InformationfortheCenter
A. Vision
BCRC-Tehran as a center of transferring updated technologies to
countries in south and west Asia to protect and improve the human
health and environment against the adverse effects of hazardous
wastes and environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes
and their disposal.
B. Background
Basel Convention Regional Center in Tehran is established according
to the Decision VII/10 of the Seventh Meeting of the Conference of
the Parties (COP 7) to the Basel Convention in October 2004.
According to the framework agreement between the Secretariat of
Basel Convention and the Government of Islamic Republic of Iran, the
Basel Convention Regional Center in Tehran is established at the
Department of Environment, Islamic Republic of Iran also financed by
the I.R. of Iran government.
The BCRC in Tehran serves the following 5 member states:
1. Republic of Bangladesh
2. Republic of Maldives
3. Government of Nepal
4. Islamic Republic of Pakistan
5. Islamic Republic of Iran
Non-member states:
1. Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
2. Islamic Republic of Iraq
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The activities which were undertaken by the BCRC-Tehran including:
Second Meeting of Steering Committee, Iran, Tehran, 26-27
August 2009
National Workshop on Application of Geo-synthetics in
Landfills Engineering, Tehran, Iran, 24 November 2008
Workshop on Introduction of E-wastes Systems, Iran, Tehran, 2
February 2008
First Exhibition, Conference and Workshop on High-Tech
Innovation of Recycling Industries, Iran, Tehran, 8th – 11th
December 2009
Workshop on Introduction of Basel Convention, Iran, Bandar
Abbas, 26 May 2010
The Exhibition and Conference on Tire & Rubber Recycling
and Environment, Iran, Tehran, 29th and 30th June
The Workshop on PCB Management and the contaminated
materials and equipment, Iran, Tehran, 9-10th November 2010
Regional workshop on Landfill Management, Iran, Tehran, 2-3
October 2011
Regional workshop on Co-processing of HW and wastes under
Basel and Stockholm Conventions in Cement Kilns, Iran,
Tehran, 4-5 October 2011
Regional workshop on ESM of E-waste, Iran, Tehran, 8-10
January 2012
The Third meeting of Steering Committee, Iran, Tehran, 11
January 2012
C. Governance
The Framework Agreement signed by the Secretariat of Basel
Convention and the Islamic Republic of Iran, the former Head of
Department of Environment in 2008.
The BCRC-Tehran has opened the bank account since 2010 in the
National Bank of Iran.
It is worth mentioning that the National Legal status of the Center for
the operation of the center is providing.
Since 2008 to 2011, Dr. Soroush Modabberi was the director of the
center while on October 2011, Dr. Alireza Shiri Garakani, has been
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appointed by the Department of Environment in Iran and has been
accepted by the SBC on January 2012.
The first meeting of Steering Committee was held in 2008. So far 2
meetings of Steering Committee have been hosted by the Center in
2009 and 2011.
D. Contact information
Basel Convention Regional Center in Tehran
Dr. Alireza Shiri-Garakani (Director)
BCRC-Tehran, Department of Environment, Pardisan Ecopark, West
Hakim Highway, Tehran, Iran
Tel & Fax: +98 21 88 23 31 44
E-mail: [email protected]
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TheCenterandtheBasel
Convention
A. Performance of the core function
BCRC-Tehran for training and technology transfer in South and West
Asia assists member states and non-member states through capacitybuilding for environmentally sound management, to achieve the
fulfillment of the objectives of the Convention.
Center coordinates by member states to finalize the Plans for
providing the biennium Business Plan according to the priorities and
needs assessment.
The core functions of the Centre are Training, Technology transfer,
Information, Consulting and Awareness-raising.
B. Opportunities for improvement
BCRC-Tehran in spite of some activities to serve the Basel
Convention in South and West Asia encounters some obstacles
including financial limitation, lack of assistance for resource
mobilization for example project proposal writing, insufficient training
in new technologies, lack of access to donors, lack of partners
supports are highlighted obstacles which the center has faced.
C. Cooperation with the Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions
BCRC-Tehran was endorsed to serve the Stockholm Convention to
South and West Asia in COP-5 of the Stockholm Convention in 2011.
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BCRC-Tehran has cooperated in the implementation of Basel,
Rotterdam
and
Stockholm
Conventions
with
Department
of
Environment. These activities include participation in regional
workshops coordinated by other organizations, national meetings such
as National Commission on Chemical Safety, holding the regional
workshops including ESM of e-wastes, Co-processing of wastes in
Cement Kilns, ESM of PCBs and contaminated equipment and
Inventory of HW with special references to POPs.
In this regard BCRC-Tehran will hold the national regional workshops
on Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Introduction for Custom Officers
in the region, Provincial Departments of Environment and define
National and Regional Projects on PCBs, E-wastes, Mercury and
Ships.
D. Joint activities
BCRC in Tehran has been cooperating with Department of
Environment of I.R. of Iran and has developed by Secretariat of Basel
and Stockholm Conventions. In the regional workshops organized by
Ramsar Convention Regional Center participated for transferring
information related to Basel and Stockholm Conventions. Also Center
invited from UNIDO for participating and delivering speeches in the
training and awareness raising workshops. Furthermore, BCRC in
Tehran supports from BCRC-China as the Coordinating Center in
order to achieve the fulfillments of the Basel, Rotterdam and
Stockholm Conventions objectives in the Pacific Asia.
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E. Public-private partnership activities (Optional)
In addition to this matter that BCRC is attendance the activities
organized by private sectors related to ESM of Hazardous Wastes,
Persistent Organic Pollutants and Pesticides and Industrial Chemicals,
privet sectors supports Center in holding the national and regional
workshops, conferences and exhibitions jointly. Also private sectors
count on the BCRC as the consultant center for ESM of wastes; survey
for internationally training professionals illustrates the point. It is
worth to mention that Center under the MOU cooperate with private
sectors which involve to Waste Management.
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RegionalNeedsAssessment
Despite the many advances in sciences also the environmental technology
transfer has been occurred in the world, especially among developing
countries, the surveys illustrate the positive impact of these developments
in addition to some problems that developing countries are facing them
and are attempting to eliminate them.
Regional needs based on the priorities
Thematic
Priorities
Thematic
Priorities
Managerial Priorities
Title
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Legislation and regulations requirements and
strategic planning on Waste Management
Economical requirement on Waste
Management
Cultural and training requirements for
efficient Public-Private Partnership on Waste
Management
Indicator Analysis and standardization
(national and international standards)
Identification and categorization of Wastes
Physical-Chemical Analysis of waste
Inventory of Hazardous and other waste
Quantification of wastes
Collection and Transportation mechanisms
and introduce related Software according to
the countries’ needs
Introduction on 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse
&Recycle)
Introduction on Disposal methods
Landfill
Composting
Incinerators
Digesters
Environmentally Sound Management of
Electrical and Electronic Waste(E-waste)
Co-processing of wastes regulated by the
Basel and Stockholm Conventions in Cement
Kilns
Environmentally Sound Management of Used
Lead Acid Batteries (ULAB)
Introducing the wastes under Basel,
Stockholm and Rotterdam Conventions and
the knowledge of the alternatives
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Importance
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The levels of importance are:
Levels of
Importance
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2
3
4
5
Not
Practical
Not very
important
Quite
Important
Very
Important
Extremely
Important
Other needs listed below
Poor training and education communities among countries in the
region
Poor regional cooperation in chemicals and hazardous wastes
management
Lack of financial support arrangement
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ProposedActivities
A. Maintenance of the Center and staff training activities
Expansion the Center activities
Consideration to make the opportunities to strengthen the projects and
training programs, center provides strategic plans through:
Meetings
and
Communication
with
governmental
and
nongovernmental organizations
Communication with donors
Steering committees with participation of representatives from
member states, non-member states and observes from related
organization
Increasing the interaction with other regional centers and
Secretariats
Development of facilities and equipment
Translation, publication and distribution of Basel Convention
technical guidelines
Expected result:
Increasing the projects and regional training workshops
Participation in regional and international events
In order to highlight the Center role in the region and among
international
communities,
BCRC-Tehran
participates
in
the
Conferences of the Parties, meetings and workshops organized by
parties, regional centers and Basel Convention and other Secretariats.
Specific tasks:
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Identification interests and needs of participants
Familiarity with technologies and beneficial to approach a new
knowledge
Communicate with sources and scientific references
Expected results:
Approaching to educational standards
Training Workshops
Identification and priority assessments of needs of the countries
in the region
Issue of the certificates validated by Ministry of Science and
Technology
Setting the national and regional workshops in the center and
member states according to the proposal of countries in the
region
Expected result:
Increasing the number of trained communicators
B. Activities for the implementation of the Strategic Framework and
other COP-10 decisions
Vision
The aim of the strategic framework is to protect human health and the
environment by controlling transboundary movements of HW and
other wastes by ensuring and strengthening the environmentally sound
management of wastes such as electrical and electronic wastes, Pops
wastes and other hazardous substances wastes, used oil, ULAB,
dismantling of ships and Mercury as well as on the implementation of
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Basel Convention and enforcement authorities at regional and national
levels.
Guiding principles
Guiding principles are based on prevention, minimization, reuse,
recycling, other recovery including energy recovery and final disposal
of HW and other wastes and chemicals. The waste management
policies includes recognition of resources wastes, life-cycle approach,
partnerships,
cooperation
and
synergies,
integrated
waste
management, respect legislation governing waste management as well
as each party’s national legislation and regulations.
Strategic goals and objectives
Goal 1: Strengthening the environmentally Sound Management of
Hazardous Wastes and other Wastes
Objective 1.1: Development of ESM of HW and other wastes and
chemicals through regional and national workshops, seminars to
transfer update technologies to the countries in the region.
Objective 1.2: Promoting capacity-building in the region including
needs assessments and search to find the best solutions.
Goal 2: To enhance the implementation of the environmentally
sound management of HW and other wastes
Objective 2.1 : To prepare technical guidelines on management of
hazardous wastes and other wastes.
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Objective 2.2: To assign member states to ESM of waste based on
their abilities in the region.
Objective 2.3: Search to find the solution, generate, provide,
collect, transmit and use reliable information and data regarding
import, export, generation and management of the wastes covered
three conventions.
Objective 2.4: To encourage the parties to improve the
effectiveness of the Basel Convention through the IndonesianSwiss country-led initiative.
Goal 3: Effective cooperation among the countries in the region
(South and West Asia)
Objective 3.1: To reach a satisfied communication among member
states and non-member states, centers and parties in Asia.
Objective 3.2: To perform the jointly projects and workshops in
the region through some activities such support as Coordinating
Center in Pacific Asia.
C. Synergies activities
Regional workshop on Environmentally sound management of
ships
Objective: to promote safe management and use of hazardous
substances
and chemicals cover by Basel, Rotterdam and Hong Kong
Conventions in dismantling ships
Countries: Parties in the region
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Strengthening the capacity of recycling of management of Ewastes in the region
Objective: Environmentally sound management of Electrical and
Electronic wastes, distribution of some chemicals during these
wastes management and extracting valuable substances
Countries: Parties in the region
Strengthening the capacity of PCBs Management
Objective: Environmentally sound management of PCBs
Countries: Parties in the region
D. Other capacity building activities
Regional training workshop on the ESM of Mercury
Objective: Reducing the risk resulting from the widespread use of
mercury
Countries: Parties in the region
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FinancialInformation
Financial information about the Center
Table I: Expenditures related to the work of the center (20122013)
(All prices are in US Dollars.)
Department of
Environment
SBC
Total
Director
18000
18000
Project Director
18000
18000
Secretary
9600
9600
Assistant
9600
9600
Building
15000
15000
Communication
5000
5000
Maintenance
5000
5000
Others
5000
5000
Publications
5000
5000
Traveling
3000
10000
Sub total
93200
10000
Total
13000
103200
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Main partner institutions
Financial Resources:
A. Current main sources of funding:
o Department of Environment, I.R. of Iran
B. Potential future sources of funding:
o UNEP/SBC
o UNIDO
o Parties in the region
o JICA
o GEF
o ADB
o Others
External Resources:
A. Current key partners and stakeholders:
o Department of Environment, I.R. of Iran
o Private partners
B. Key partners and stakeholder in the future:
o Donors
o Governmental organizations
o Academies
o Parties in the region
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Proposed budget for activities (2012-2013)
(All prices are in US Dollars.)
BCRC-Tehran Estimated Income and Expenditure for 2012/2013
Incomes (Estimated)
2012
2013
Total
100000
150000
250000
50000
50000
100000
From other MEAs
100000
200000
300000
From donors
10000
15000
25000
Private partners
75000
100000
175000
Subtotal
335000
515000
900000
Total Incomes
335000
515000
900000
Personnel
20000
24000
44000
Subcontracts
5000
7500
12500
Travel and Subsistence
15000
25000
40000
Training/Learning
5000
7500
12500
Equipment, supplies and premises
2500
5000
7500
General operating expenses (telephone,
1200
1700
2900
48700
70700
119400
Allocations from host government (DoE
I.R. of Iran)
From Basel Convention (Technical
Cooperation Trust Fund)
Expenditure (Estimated)
Core
internet, electricity etc.)
Subtotal
Workshops and Training Activities
Environmentally Sound Management of
25000
Ships
Management of Mercury
25000
Environmentally Sound Management
25000
ofULAB
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National Workshop (Introduction of
15000
Conventions)
Management of Used Oil
35000
Management of E-waste (II)
35000
Management of PCBs (II)
35000
National Workshop
17000
Subtotal
90000
122000
212000
Projects
Project I (Management of E-waste)
100000
Project II ( Management of PCBs)
100000
Project III
100000
Project IV
120000
Project V
120000
Project VI
120000
Subtotal
300000
360000
660000
Total Expenditure
390000
482000
872000
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ANNEX
National Focal Points for the Basel Convention in
Member states and non-member states of BCRC in Tehran for South
and West Asia
REPUBLIC of BANGLADESH (to be completed)
Name
Designation
Department
Address
:
:
:
:
Tel
Fax
E-mail
Website
:
:
:
:
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
Name
: Dr. Alimohammad Shaeri
Designation : Deputy Head of Department of Environment and Deputy of
Human Environment of Islamic Republic of Iran
Department : Department of Environment
Address
: Pardisan Eco-park West Hakim Highway, Tehran, Iran
Tel
: (+98-21) 88 23 30 89
Fax
: (+98-21) 88 23 30 45-88 23 30 88
E-mail
: [email protected]
Website
: www.irandoe.ir
REPUBLIC OF MALDIVES (to be approved)
Name
Designation
Department
Address
:
:
:
:
Mr. Abdullahi Majeed
Deputy Minister
Ministry of Environment, energy and water
Male, Republic of Maldives
Tel
Fax
: (+960) 3324861
: (+960) 3322286
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E-mail
Website
: [email protected]
: www.environment.gov.mv
ISLAMIC DEMOCRATIC OF PAKISTAN
Name
: Mr. Muhammad Ashraf
Designation : Joint Secretary (International Cooperation)
Department : Ministry of National Disaster Management
Government of Pakistan
Address
: LG & RD Complex, Fourth Floor, Sector G-5/2, Islamabad.
Tel
: (+92-51) 9245523
Fax
: (+92-51) 9245524
E-mail
: [email protected]
Website
: www.moenv.gov.pk
KINGDOM OF NEPAL
Name
Designation
Department
Address
Tel
Fax
E-mail
Website
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
Meena Khanal
Joint Secretary
Ministry of Environment
Singha Darbar, Kathmandu, Nepal
(+977-1)
(+977-1) 4211954
[email protected]
www.moenv.gov.np
REPUBLIC OF IRAQ
Name
: LUAY SADEQ ALMUKHTAR
Designation : Director Department
Department : MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT / International
Environmental Relations Department
Address
: BAGHDAD / AL-WAZIRAA MAGRAB ST / P.O .BOX
10062
Tel
: 009647901467889
Fax
: ____
E-mail
: [email protected]
Website
: ____
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ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF AFGHANISTAN
Name:
Designation:
Department:
Conventions
Mr. Mohd Yasin Noori
MEAs Officer
International Relations andEnvironmental
Address:
NEPA HQ, Main Baraki Rd, Behind Kardan University,
Kabul - Afghanistan
Yasin Noori <[email protected]>
E-mail:
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