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Environmental Equity and Justice Partnership places its focus
on cross cutting issues of Toxicity, Waste and Pollution. The
actions listed below are only indicative and not meant to be
an exhaustive list. Projects should relate to one or more of
the broad areas mentioned.
WASTE including
municipal waste, bio medical waste, hazardous waste and electronic
waste. The targeted activities may have an urban or a semi
urban/ rural perspective but most important is for all the
interventions to be solution based. Some suggestive activities
that could be supported under EEJP may include those that:
- Demonstrate environmentally sustainable model on waste management especially in rural and semi urban areas
- Generate awareness among well-defined target groups with clear indicators
- Involve base line studies with a solution-based approach
- Draw linkages between waste management and climate change
- Involve training and capacity building of waste pickers, recyclers and others.
- Focus on brining transparency in the waste management practice
TOXICITY issues
including heavy metals, mercury, pesticides, and persistent
organic pollutants among others. EEJP encourages the following
type of activities on the issue:
- Research community impacts of heavy metals and/
or other toxic chemicals, including bio-monitoring
- Innovate methodologies to conduct research on toxicity
in products
- Testing of products for toxicity to establish facts
- Generate new data on pesticides usages, persistent
organic pollutants and other toxic chemicals
Identify and promote safer alternatives - chemical
as well as non-chemical - to toxic chemicals.
- Draw linkages between toxicity and climate change.
- Generate awareness among well-defined target groups
with clear outcome
- Targeted interventions that strengthens the regulatory
and implementation mechanism and promote transparency
POLLUTION issues
are wide ranging. EEJP however will focus on interventions
that links to other two areas and seek to demonstrate impact
and catalyzes larger issues. These may include, among others:
- New baseline studies/research on emerging pollution
issues
- Promote new methodology in conducting research
- Identify new pollution hotspots and plan specific
interventions
- Targeted interventions on specific pollution issues
with the objective of bringing concrete change
- Environmental monitoring and testing
- Pollution and climate change
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