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Possible regional structure of the POPs Global monitoring Plan
A number of options have been considered by the GMP Guidance Document Expert Meeting,
which took place 4-8 December 2006 in Geneva, to provide the basic regional structure for the
programme. It was suggested that in setting up the regions, care should be taken that they provide
an adequate basis for generating, collecting, reporting and presenting the data. It would seem that
the best way to achieve this is to form the regions as geographical entities. This would also
facilitate evaluation of regional and global environmental transport of POPs. To keep the number
of regions to a manageable figure, while maintaining the geographical basis, it has been proposed
to use for the purpose of the first monitoring report only the following regional distribution:
North and Central America including the Caribbean; Western, Central and Eastern Europe
(including the whole UN-CEE region); West, South and South-eastern Asia; South America;
Africa; and the region of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Information from the
Arctic will be incorporated in the appropriate regions (North and Central America including the
Caribbean as well as Western and Central Europe and Eurasia. The South America region and the
region of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands will approach the relevant Antarctic
institutions for information from the Antarctic. In setting up this structure the Secretariat would
need to work in consultation with the members of the TWG to ensure coordination and avoidance
of overlaps between regions.
Within each region, all activities would be under the direction of a Regional Organization Group
(ROG). Some details about the roles and responsibilities of this group are given below. Sub
regional arrangements that take into account linguistic, political and geophysical considerations
could be introduced to further support the organization of the work.
Twinning and partnerships between regions would be encouraged whenever possible.
Fig 1 bellow depicts the possible split of the fifteen members of the preliminary ad hoc Technical
Working Group on POPs Monitoring (TWG), nominated by the 5 UN regions, into the proposed
GMP regional structure. It is evident that four of the six proposed GMP regions are relatively
well covered by TWG members (Africa; Western, Central and Eastern Europe; North, Central
America and the Caribbean; West, South and Southeast Asia) one region has only one member
(South America) and one region (Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands) is not covered
at all.
Countries representing the particular regions are outlined in Table 1 and the global map split into
the six GMP regions is attached in a separate file.
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Fig 1
The five UN regions
Africa
Africa
TWG members:
Robert ChongKwet Yive
M. Moudachirou
D. Sidibe
CEE
WEOG
Western,
Central and
Eastern Europe
TWG members:
P. Weis
T. Johannessen
I. Holoubek
T. Dimcheva
A. Cummanova
North America,
Central America
and the
Caribbean
TWG members:
T. Harner
A.P. Martinez
T. Yarde
GRULAC
South America
TWG members:
L. Caballero
Asia and Pacific
Australia,
New Zealand and
the Pacific Islands
West, South and
Southeast Asia
TWG members:
I. Chandrasekharan
Y. Shibata
M. Zhengh
TWG members:
Six regions for the purpose of the POPs Global Monitoring Plan
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Table 1
AFRICA
West, South and
Southeast Asia
Western,
Central and
Eastern Europe
Albania
Andorra
Armenia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belarus
North and Central
America & the
Caribbean
Antigua and Barbuda
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Canada
Costa Rica
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Colombia
Ecuador
Guyana
Cuba
Dominica
Chile
Paraguay
Australia, New
Zealand and Pacific
Islands
Australia
Cook Islands
Fiji
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia (Federated
States of)
Nauru
New Zealand
Dominican Republic
Peru
Niue
Surinam
Uruguay
Venezuela
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tonga
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Afghanistan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Brunei Darussalam
Cambodia
7.
8.
Cameroon
Cape Verde
DPR Korea
Fiji
9.
China
India
Indonesia
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iraq
Israel
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
El Salvador
Grenada
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
15.
16.
17.
18.
Central African
Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo
Côte d’Ivoire
Democratic Republic of
Congo
Djibuti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Belgium
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Bulgaria
France
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Jamaica
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
19.
20.
21.
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Jordan
Korea (Republic of)
Kuwait
Lao People's Democratic
Republic
Lebanon
Lybian Arab Jamayhiriya
Malaysia
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea Bissau
Kenya
Lesotho
Maldives
Mongolia
Myanmar
Nepal
Oman
Italy
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Lichtenstein
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
United States
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
South America
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
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AFRICA
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.
41.
42.
43.
44.
45.
46.
47.
48.
49.
50.
51.
Liberia
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Rwanda
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
Sudan
Swaziland
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
United republic of
Tanzania
Zambia
Zimbabwe
West, South and
Southeast Asia
Pakistan
Philippines
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Syrian Arab Republic
Thailand
Timor-Leste
United Arab Emirates
Vietnam
Yemen
Western,
Central and
Eastern Europe
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Monaco
Montenegro
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Republic of Moldova
Romania
Russian Federation
San Marino
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Tajikistan
TFYR of Macedonia
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
North and Central
America & the
Caribbean
South America
Australia, New
Zealand and Pacific
Islands
United Kingdom
Uzbekistan
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