• To improve regulatory framework for enforcement, strengthen national capacities in POPs pesticides and mercury management,

  To strengthen national conditions to scale up the replacement of mercury containing medical devices,

  To disposal of mercury stocks and mercury-containing wastes generated from existing phase out processes, and support the transformation of healthcare waste management systems

• Agriculture sector, Healthcare sector and Education sector

Main Project Components 

(Outputs)

Component 1 - Strengthen the Policy, Regulatory and institutional Frameworks for the management of POPs, Mercury and other Chemicals of Concern (CoC);

Component 2- Environmentally sound management disposal of obsolete stocks of Agrichemicals POPs, Mercury and their wastes;

Component 3 – Establish Healthcare Waste Management (HCWM) Systems to effectively prevent U-POPs emissions, and develop Business Models for waste disposal at Healthcare Facilities which are aligned to the national COVID-19 recovery efforts;

Component 4 - Knowledge Sharing, Management & Evaluation.

• To enhance national-level institutions and technical capacities for the 2021-2022 UNCCD reorting process in the context of the UNCCD strategic frame work 2018-2030 and SDG 15.3.

• Land use policy planning department
• Forest department
• National resources management center.
• Statistical department
• Department of Agriculture
• Department of Wildlife
• Universities

Main Project Components 

(Outputs)

1. Trainingd conducted at national level for domestication of standadize tools for data collection for quality cycle
2. National report to UNCCD elaborated, validated with participation of key stakeholders and submitted dedadlines.

• Control the consumption and gradual phase out of Ozone Depleting Substances (ODSs) complying with the MP regulations.

• Policy makers in government and private sector
• Universities
• Health and Industrial Sectors

Main Project Components 

(Outputs)

Maintain face out target of HCFC 90% 2013 baseline and enhance recovery and recycling of used HCFC refregerent to facilitate reclaming of HCFC refrigerent to reduce the demand (import) for new refrigerant introduce zero ODP and low GWP refrigerant as alternative

• To Build capacity in Sri Lanka to disposal of PCB waste and PCB contaminated equipments.

• Policy makers in government and private sector
• Universities
• Health and Industrial Sectors

Main Project Components 

(Outputs)

1.Institutional Strengthening and awareness.
2. Policy and regulatory frame work.
3. Disposal of PCB contaminated waste and equipments.
4.Impact monitoring and evaluation.

• Enable Sri Lanka to report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change under the obligation of the Paris Agreement’s Enhance Transparency Framework with strengthened Agriculture, Forest and Other Land sectors and information necessary to track progress against priority actions identified in Nationally Determined Contributions of these sectors.

• Direct -Government(Line Ministries & Agencies), Private Sector (Agriculture, Forestry, Livestock & Fisheries etc.), Civil Society Organizations

• Indirect -1. Citizens of Sri Lanka, Civil Society Organizations

Main Project Components 

(Outputs)

1. Institutional arrangements to coordinate preparation of ETF Reports of AFOLU sectors.
2. Strengthened capacity to measure emission, removals and emission -reduction activities from AFOLU sector.
3. Strengthened capacity to measure emission, removals and emission -reduction activities from AFOLU sector

• Strengthend protection of globally significant boidiversity throught mainstreaming of conservation and sustainable practices into land use planning and sectoral decision-making in forestry, agriculture and tourism sectors.

• Direct - (3200) Government Institutes &Community

• Indirect - (240,000) Private Sector Companies & Government Institutes/ Community/ Conservation NGOs/ Rural Development NGOs.

• Anuradhapura
• Mannar
• Vavuniya
• Puttalam

Main Project Components 

(Outputs)

1. Institutional capacity building, and enhanced cross-sectoral, trans-jurisdictional and donor agency co-ordination in planning , decision-making and action
2. Design of landscape strategies for biodiversity conservation sustainable livehoods and upward integration into existing policy.
3. Participatory land-use planning and livehood-focused interventions to demonstrate socio-economics benefits of biodiversity conservation.

• The project aims at better managing agricultural land uses in the cascade landscape, promoting food security, wellbeing and ecosystem health and mainstreaming biodiversity in to integrated landscape management to realized health and environmental co benefits of the village tank cascade systems.

• Direct - 2000 Families
• Indirect - 4500 Families

Main Project Components 

(Outputs)

1. Implement of biodiversity based options that improve sustainable landscape management in socio-ecological sensitive areas
2. Strengthened institutions, policies and intergrated landscape planning of village tank cascade systems (VTCS) in socio-ecological Sensitive ares
3. Knowdge management, partnerships and capacity building for better sustainable integrated landscape management in support of improved ecosystem services and ecohealth outcomes
4. Projects monitoring and evaluation
5. Project management

• The objective of this project is to support the country to implement Minamata convention while reducing health and environmental hazards from waste consisting of, contaminated with the containing mercury disposal I an ad hoc manner.

• Mercuty users in Education, Health and Industrial Sectors

Main Project Components 

(Outputs)

1. Report on mercury free alternatives with their cost-benefit analysis and recommendations for future policy directives.
2. National Technical guideline for Mercury waste management in Industrial, Health and Education Sectors.
3. Trained employees from health, industrial and education sectors, mercury equipment suppliers and enlightened general public on elemental mercury and wastes containing or contaminated

• The Project aims to improve the capacity on environmentally sound management of single-use-plastic and its waste in Sri Lanka and prevent & minimize the generation, adverse impactof single use- plastic waste.

• Policy makers in government and private sector
• Producers of eco-friendly alternate products for single use plastics (Mostly Women)

Main Project Components 

(Outputs)

1. Policy options for single-use-plastic and its waste in Sri Lanka.
2. Inventory and standards for single-use-plastic and its waste in Sri Lanka.
3. National strategy on single-use-plastic and its waste.

• Strengthen the capacity in Sri Lanka to control the transboundary movements of plastic waste, to ensure the environmentally sound management of plastic waste, and prevent and minimize the generation of generation of plastic waste.

• Plastic Waste Collectors (800)
• Plastic Waste Resyclers (200)
• Producers of alternative products to plastics

Main Project Components 

(Outputs)

1. A National Legal and Institutonal Framework for the Control of Import / Export of Plastic Waste (Trans Boundary Movement (TBM)) and the Identification of Gaps / Capacities for Enforcing the Basel Convention Control Regime.
2. Developed and implemented a national strategy for the ESM of plastic wastes.
3. Life cycle approach to plastic products by considering degradation of different polymers, rate of fragmentation in the marine environment, reducing hazardous additives, switching materials.
4. Educational and awareness measures on marine litter and microplastics stregthened.

• People living in KalaOya Basin on the pilot project
• People living all island

• Site 1: Kala Wewa Area (Ipalogama, Galnewa DSDs)
• Site 2: Area below Wilpattu NP (Wanathawilluwa, Karuwalagaswewa DSDs encompassing the Bar Reef & the estuary)

• Outcome 1: National Enabling Framework Strengthened to Designate and Manage Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESA)
• Outcome 2: Biodiversity-friendly ESA management for long term integrity and resilience ensured at two sites in the Kala Oya Region