It's getting blunter and blunter.

A shot for bronchitis.

Access to needle and syringe programmes

Development of a Strategic Approach

Paper submitted by the Inter Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals on ways of monitoring progress in the implementation of the strategic approach to international chemicals management (SAICM), including proposed criteria for a SAICM oversight body

SAICM implementation

Hands it back to me. And we do that again and again.

I was calm until I saw the syringe.

to international chemicals management

This requires a flexible approach to regulation and supervision.

C. Consideration of SAICM by the UNEP Governing Council

Consideration by other governing bodies

Whether we call them strategies or guidelines or strategies and guidelines, they are recommendations.

(f) Ensuring that the governance of financial arrangements for the Strategic Approach will be compatible with the overall institutional arrangements for the Strategic Approach

At the second session of the Preparatory Committee for the Development of a Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, it was proposed that the strategic approach to international chemicals management (SAICM) consist of three components a high level declaration an overarching policy strategy and a global plan of action.

And I took out a centrifuge and dry ice and needles and tubes.

Further development of a strategic approach

Further development of a strategic approach

The remainder of the SAICM development process

We feel that we should pursue two parallel approaches in this regard.

Promote the administration of micronutrients, particularly to children

This implies that the organization cannot ignore significant environmental issues.

Some mad scientist is going to jab your arm with a needle and take four tubes of blood.

And hand it off to the nurse. She squirts it into a tin.

Further development of a strategic approach to international chemicals management

And the way we do this is we basically place this through the soft tissue, and kind of punch it into the hard bone, into the tuchus that's a technical term and aspirate about 10 mls of bone marrow out, each time, with a syringe.

B. Sector specific standards on EMS 19 20

Role of UNEP in SAICM implementation

Should exclusive jurisdiction clauses be enforceable against third parties?

Policies and regulatory frameworks, as well as any regulatory reform, would follow different objectives in relation to these two segments.

The present paper introduces the following SAICM related themes that ministers and heads of delegations may wish to explore during their consultation

Further development and adoption of a strategic approach to international chemicals management

Ministers and heads of delegations may wish to discuss the proposed roles for UNEP in SAICM implementation, reflecting on the significance of SAICM as an international policy initiative in the field of chemicals management and an element of sustainable development, the appropriateness of UNEP endorsing SAICM and taking on support functions for its implementation, and the importance of UNEP support for developing countries and countries with economies in transition in implementing SAICM.

Noting that the Adaptation Fund shall be financed from the share of proceeds on the clean development mechanism project activities and other sources of funding,

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(a) Advising on and promoting departmental policies and guidelines dealing with specific management issues and problems

B. UNEP support for overall SAICM implementation

approach to international chemicals management

The rate of sharing syringes has been as high as 50 per cent in some countries of the region.

It also agreed provisionally on the functions of both the future SAICM secretariat and the Conference when reconvened to exercise its proposed review role.

It was underlined that, although the inter committee meeting could recommend their adoption, each individual committee would have to adopt them before they became final.

Emergency Management Training Programme (EMTP) workshops were held in Ethiopia (for countries in the Horn and East Africa), Kyrgyzstan (for the Central Asian Republics) and Guinea (for West Africa).

Multisectoral engagement has been one of the distinguishing characteristics of the SAICM development process and it will continue to be important during the implementation phase.

The purpose of the present note is to assist potential participants in the third session of the Preparatory Committee for the Development of a Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) in preparing for the session.

C. UNEP support for implementation of SAICM in the environment sector