Updated National Implementation Plan for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants for Zimbabwe.

The process to prepare the Updated National Implementation Plan for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants for Zimbabwe 2017 has been coordinated by the Ministry of Environment, Water and Climate. The process involved initially conducting POPs inventories and baseline assessments (infrastructure assessment, socio-economic assessment, and assessment of POPs impacts on human health and the environment). From these activities, issues of concern (Seven goals, further divided into 28 objectives) were identified and prioritized, and then action plans for addressing the prioritized issues of concern were developed.
The NIP is structured into three chapters, which are the introductory chapter giving background information on the NIP, the second chapter which is an assessment of Zimbabwe's baseline information, including an assessment of POPs in Zimbabwe, and the third chapter which outlines the prioritized issues and the action plans for addressing the priority issues.
Goal 1: To reduce the intentional production and use of POPs within five years; Goal 2: To reduce emissions of U-POPs from major sources within five years; Goal 2: To reduce emissions of U-POPs from major sources within five years; Goal 4: To strengthen institutional framework for managing POPs and other chemicals within five years; Goal 5: To reduce releases of POPs from stockpiles and wastes through environmentally sound management of contaminated land and obsolete chemicals within five years; Goal 6: To raise awareness on the sound management of POPs and other chemicals and hazardous wastes within three years; Goal 7: To improve research and monitoring of POPs impacts on human health and the environment within five years.