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Africa
| Project |
Start Date |
Total Population Affected |
Children Affected |
DALYs Associated |
Cameroon:
Assessment and Cleanup of Pesticide-Contaminated Sites
|
May 2016 |
|
|
|
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Ghana (Agbogbloshie) – E-Waste Recycling
|
November 2013 |
50,000 |
10,000 |
Projected 4,767 |
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Ghana – Mapping Project
|
June 2014 |
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|
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Ghana:
Health and Pollution Action Plan
|
|
|
|
|
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Guinea – Gold Mining and Mercury Emissions
|
April 2006 |
150,000 |
30,000 |
|
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Guinea – Leaded Gas Phase Out Task Force
|
|
500,000 |
100,000 |
47,665 |
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Guinea – PCB Cleanup and Removal
|
|
5,000 |
1,000 |
477 |
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Mozambique (Manica) – Gold Mining and Mercury Emissions
|
2005 |
10,000 |
2,000 |
953 |
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Mozambique (Maputo) – Center for Environmental Research and Advocacy
|
June 2003 |
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Mozambique – Leaded Gas Phase Out Task Force
|
2001 |
500,000 |
100,000 |
47,665 |
|
Mozambique – Supporting Environmental Journalists Group
|
|
|
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Nigeria (Zamfara) – Lead Poisoning Crisis
|
December 2010 |
71,000 |
12,000 |
5,720 |
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Senegal (Baia de Hanne) – Industrial Pollution
|
December 2005 |
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Senegal (Kedougou) – Mercury in Artisanal Gold Mining
|
|
40,000 |
8,000 |
|
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Senegal (Thiayore Sur Mer) – From Lead Battery Recycling to Hydroponics
|
March 2008 |
40,000 |
8,000 |
|
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Senegal – Monitoring Lead Gasoline Phase Out
|
2005 |
500,000 |
100,000 |
|
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Somaliland (Ahava Valley) – Obsolete Pesticides Site
|
2014 |
200 |
40 |
19 |
|
Tanzania (Dar es Salaam) – Wastewater Treatment
|
|
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Tanzania – Leaded Gasoline Phase Out
|
2003 |
500,000 |
100,000 |
47.665 |
|
Tanzania – Msimbazi River Action Network
|
|
|
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Tanzania – Pollution Prevention in Lake Victoria
|
2001 |
247,000 |
49,400 |
23,547 |
|
Tanzania – Sewer Infrastructure
|
2001 |
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TSIP – Nairobi, Kenya
|
2016 |
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TSIP Regional Training- Dodowa, Ghana
|
March 22, 2010 |
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TSIP Regional Training- Johannesburg, South Africa
|
June 18, 2009 |
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TSIP Regional Training- Nairobi, Kenya
|
June 11, 2009 |
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TSIP Regional Training- Senegal, Nigeria
|
August 9, 2010 |
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TSIP Training Accra, Ghana
|
March 22, 2012 |
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TSIP Training Antananarivo, Madagascar
|
March 25, 2014 |
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TSIP Training Dakar, Senegal
|
February 19, 2013 |
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TSIP Training Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
|
April 26, 2012 |
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TSIP Training Lagos, Nigeria
|
March 28, 2012 |
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TSIP Training Nairobi, Kenya
|
May 2, 2012 |
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Zambia (Kabwe) – Environmental Rehabilitation Foundation
|
2003 |
340,000 |
68,000 |
32,412 projected upon completion |
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Zambia (Kabwe) – Lead Mines
|
December 2003 |
340,000 |
68,000 |
34,412 |
|
Zambia (Kabwe) – Pilot Lead Remediation Project (Phase 1)
|
Aug. 2015 |
2,000 |
|
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Zambia – Contamination of the Kafue River Basin
|
December 2005 |
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Zambia:
Continuing Lead Cleanup in Kabwe
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Eastern Europe and Central Asia
| Project |
Start Date |
Total Population Affected |
Children Affected |
DALYs Associated |
Armenia (Abovyan):
Assessment – Municipal Solid Waste and Former Industrial Dumpsite
|
Nov-Dec 2019 |
43,000 |
|
|
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Armenia – Assessment of Heavy Metal Pollution
|
August 2012 |
5,000 |
1,000 |
477 |
Armenia:
Cleanup of Historical Landmark, Akhtala Monastery Grounds
|
October 2018 |
|
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Azerbaijan:
Beach Cleanup in Sumgayit
|
May 2014 |
10,000 |
2,000 |
953 |
Azerbaijan:
Persistent Obsolete Pesticide Removal in Salyan
|
November 2017 |
2,000 |
|
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Eastern Europe, Central Asia:
Inventory of Abandoned Pesticide Sites
|
January 2012 |
|
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Kyrgyzstan (Mailuu-Suu) – Legacy Uranium Dumps
|
July 2008 |
250,000 |
77,500 |
23,833 |
|
Kyrgyzstan (Naiman) – Mercury Cleanup
|
October 2015 |
1000 |
|
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Kyrgyzstan (Sovetskoe) – Cleanup of Lead Contamination
|
May 2016 |
1,800 |
400 |
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Kyrgyzstan:
Health and Pollution Action Plan
|
|
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Kyrgyzstan:
Legacy Pollution From Mining
|
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Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar):
Assessment – Tannery Industry Zone
|
|
12,000 |
|
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Mongolia:
Training Artisanal Gold Miners To Go Mercury Free
|
February 2014 |
75,000 |
15,000 |
7,150 |
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Russia (Baikal) – Romanovka Uranium Mine
|
June 2006 |
1,500 |
|
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Russia (Bolshoi Balchug) – Riverbank of Nuclear Waste
|
July 2006 |
64,000 |
10,240 |
|
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Russia (Bryansk) – Chernobyl Radiation Remediation
|
January 2002 |
500,000 |
80,000 |
|
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Russia (Dzerzhinsk) – Groundwater Pollution
|
April 2006 |
1000 |
160 |
|
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Russia (Dzerzhinsk) – Water Treatment & Remediation Planning
|
2005 |
|
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Russia (Karabash) – Polluting smelter
|
0 |
16,309 |
2,609 |
|
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Russia (Krasnoufimsk) – Radioactive Waste Removal
|
September 2005 |
50,000 |
8,000 |
|
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Russia (Magadan) – Radioactive Remediation
|
0 |
130,000 |
20,800 |
|
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Russia (Nizhny Novgorod) – Abandoned Pesticide Cleanup
|
April 2005 |
7,000-10,000 |
1,120-1,600 |
|
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Russia (North Sakhalin) – Improving waste disposal practices
|
March 2005 |
37,800 |
6,048 |
|
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Russia (Penza Oblast) – Chemical Weapons Dismantling
|
April 2007 |
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Russia (Popov Island) – Mercury Contaminated Pipes/Water Supply
|
March 2005 |
2,500 |
400 |
|
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Russia (Rudnaya Pristan) – River Valley Lead Exposure Mitigation
|
November 2007 |
55,000 |
8,800 |
|
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Russia (Siberia) – DDT Remediation
|
2011 |
|
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Russia – Berezniki
|
|
181,900 |
29,104 |
|
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Russia – Gorniak Mine Tailings
|
|
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Russia – Groundwater Pollution in Pyra
|
March 2010 |
4,000 |
640 |
|
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Russia – Magnitogorsk
|
0 |
460,000 |
73,600 |
|
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Russia – Mayak NGO/Government Cooperation and Instrument Calibration Project
|
0 |
|
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Russia – Muslyumova Radioactive Sludge Removal
|
May 2005 |
124,000 |
19,840 |
|
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Russia – Ufa Legacy Dioxin Dumps
|
April 2006 |
670,000 |
107,200 |
|
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Russia – Volkhov
|
0 |
51,000 |
8,160 |
|
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Russia – Water filtration for Pyra and Gavrilovka villages
|
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Tajikistan (Beshkent):
Obsolete Pesticides Cleanup
|
|
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Tajikistan (Saidov, Jami):
Pesticide Cleanup
|
May 2017 |
50 |
|
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Tajikistan (Sangoba):
Obsolete Pesticides Cleanup
|
Sept. 2019 |
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Tajikistan (Sherobod):
Obsolete Pesticide Cleanup
|
Sept. 2019 |
|
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Tajikistan – Mitigating Exposure to Radionuclides
|
June 2014 |
5,000 |
1,000 |
477 |
|
TSIP Regional Training- Donetsk, Ukraine
|
February 1, 2009 |
|
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TSIP Training Astana, Kazakhstan
|
June 12, 2013 |
|
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TSIP Training Baku, Azerbaijan
|
March 1, 2014 |
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TSIP Training Baku, Azerbaijan
|
March 1, 2012 |
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TSIP Training Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
|
April 7, 2014 |
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TSIP Training Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
|
April 7, 2012 |
|
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TSIP Training Dushanbe, Tajikistan
|
March 30, 2014 |
|
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TSIP Training Dushanbe, Tajikistan
|
March 30, 2012 |
|
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TSIP Training Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
|
July 3, 2013 |
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TSIP Training Vladivostok, Russia
|
July 23, 2012 |
|
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TSIP Training Yerevan, Armenia
|
March 6, 2014 |
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TSIP Training Yerevan, Armenia
|
March 6, 2012 |
|
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Ukraine (Horlivka) – Abandoned Chemical Plant
|
November 2011 |
300,000 |
60,000 |
|
Ukraine:
Growing Biofuels On Polluted Land
|
|
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Latin America/Caribbean
| Project |
Start Date |
Total Population Affected |
Children Affected |
DALYs Associated |
|
Argentina (Buenos Aires) – Soil Contamination at Shipbreaking Yard
|
June 2013 |
45,000 |
9,000 |
95 |
|
Bolivia – ASGM Borax Training and NGO Capacity Building
|
October 2014 |
75,000 |
15,000 |
7,150 |
Brazil:
Toxic Site Identification Program (Northeast region)
|
March 2017 |
154,642 |
|
|
Brazil:
Training Artisanal Potters To Go Lead Free
|
|
3,000 |
|
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Colombia:
Health and Pollution Action Plan
|
June 2018 |
|
|
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Colombia:
Protecting Children From Lead Poisoning in Malambo
|
November 2017 |
|
|
|
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Dominican Republic – Bajos de Haina Abandoned Lead Smelter
|
March 2007 |
90,000 |
|
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Jamaica:
Reducing the Threats of Toxic Chemical Pollution
|
Nov. 2017 |
|
|
|
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Panama – Battery Recycling
|
January 2008 |
10,000 |
2,000 |
|
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Peru (Lima) – Used Lead-Acid Battery Recycling
|
October 2014 |
25,000 |
5,000 |
2,383 |
|
Peru – La Oroya Lead Pollution
|
May 2007 |
30,000 |
8,400 |
|
Peru:
Reducing Mercury From Artisanal Gold Mining (ASGM)
|
October 2014 |
300,000 |
84,000 |
|
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TSIP – La Paz, Bolivia
|
January 19, 2017 |
|
|
|
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TSIP Regional Training- Buenos Aires, Argentina
|
June 25, 2009 |
|
|
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TSIP Regional Training- Lima, Peru
|
September 3, 2009 |
|
|
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TSIP Regional Training- Panama City, Panama
|
May 24, 2009 |
|
|
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TSIP Toxic Site Identification – Brazil (Sao Paulo)
|
December 2015 |
TBD |
|
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TSIP Training – Brazil
|
August 26, 2019 |
|
|
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TSIP Training La Paz, Bolivia
|
June 18, 2013 |
|
|
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TSIP Training Lima, Peru
|
March 14, 2012 |
|
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TSIP Training Mexico City, Mexico
|
February 21, 2012 |
|
|
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TSIP Training Montevideo, Uruguay
|
March 7, 2012 |
|
|
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TSIP Training Santiago, Chile
|
August 1, 2012 |
|
|
|
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TSIP Training- Buenos Aires, Argentina
|
February 28, 2012 |
|
|
|
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Uruguay (Montevideo) – Micro Toxic Hotspots
|
June 2013 |
15,000 |
3,000 |
1,430 |
South Asia – India
| Project |
Start Date |
Total Population Affected |
Children Affected |
DALYs Associated |
Bangladesh (Kathgora):
Cleanup – Abandoned ULAB sites
|
October 2017 |
|
|
|
Bangladesh (Mirzapur):
Assessment – ULAB Factory
|
Nov. 2018 |
1000 |
|
|
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India (Bicchadi) – Groundwater Contamination
|
March 2010 |
8,000 |
2,320 |
|
|
India (Jodhpur, Pali and Balotra – Rajasthan) – Industrial Waste Management
|
August 2008 |
1,095,700 |
|
|
India (Vellore):
Assessment – Lead Poisoning in Tamil Nadu
|
|
|
|
|
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India – Amlakhadi River
|
March 2006 |
100,000 |
20,000 |
|
|
India – Aruputo Chromium Contamination Assessment
|
|
1,000 |
290 |
|
|
India – Chinhat Lindane Manufacturing Industries
|
March 2006 |
273,073 |
79,191 |
|
|
India – Daurala Groundwater Contamination
|
July 2004 |
10,700 |
3,103 |
|
|
India – Eloor
|
0 |
40,000 |
11,600 |
|
|
India – Gujarat Stakeholders Group
|
February 2006 |
Several thousand |
|
|
|
India – Hema Chemicals Chromium waste
|
2006 |
1,200,000 |
240,000 |
|
|
India – Kanpur Groundwater Pollution
|
December 2004 |
30,000 |
6,000 |
2,860 |
|
India – Mini River Project
|
0 |
4,200,000 |
1,218,000 |
|
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India – Muthia Village Vermiculture
|
January 2006 |
85,000 |
17,000 |
8,103 |
|
India – Nandesari
|
0 |
4,200,000 |
1,218,000 |
|
|
India – Orissa Abandoned hazardous waste dumpsite
|
June 2007 |
1,140,000 |
330,600 |
|
|
India – Pali Dyeing Industries
|
March 2006 |
1,819,201 |
527,568 |
|
|
India – Panki Katra Fly Ash Contamination
|
January 2006 |
100,000 |
29,000 |
|
|
India – Picnic Gardens/Tiljala
|
0 |
200,000 |
58,000 |
|
|
India – Ranipet Tannery Waste
|
0 |
3,482,000 |
1,009,780 |
|
|
India – Roro Hills Legacy Asbestos Mines
|
2006 |
50 tribal villages |
|
|
|
India – Sukinda Valley
|
0 |
2,600,000 |
754,000 |
|
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India – Vapi Industrial Estate
|
|
|
|
|
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India – Wah-Umkrah River
|
April 2004 |
|
|
|
India:
Childhood Lead Exposure and Source Identification Study, Patna
|
|
|
|
|
India:
Lead Cleanup in Karmalichak (Patna city, Bihar state)
|
September 2015 |
5,000 |
|
|
|
TSIP Regional Training- New Delhi, India
|
April 19, 2009 |
|
|
|
Southeast Asia
| Project |
Start Date |
Total Population Affected |
Children Affected |
DALYs Associated |
|
Cambodia – Artisanal Gold Mines
|
April 2006 |
|
|
|
|
Cambodia – Hazardous Materials Legislation Project
|
0 |
|
|
|
|
Cambodia – Mlup Baitong
|
0 |
|
|
|
|
Cambodia – Technical Guidelines for Air Quality Monitoring
|
2004 |
|
|
|
|
Indonesia (Cinangka) – Encapsulation of Lead Contaminated Soccer Field
|
September 2011 |
12,500 |
2,500 |
3,750 |
|
Indonesia (Pesarean Village, Tegal) – Developing Remediation Designs for Lead Contamination
|
February 2016 |
12,675 |
|
|
|
Indonesia – ASGM Mercury-Free Technology
|
January 2013 |
43,000 |
|
|
Indonesia and Philippines:
Reducing Risks From Lead Contamination
|
June 2016 |
|
|
|
Philippines (Cebu City):
Assessment – Sitio Tinga Lead Smelting Village
|
Jan. 15 to 17, 2019 |
|
|
|
|
Philippines (Marilao) – Industrial Waste Contamination
|
2005 |
250,000 |
50,000 |
23,833 |
|
Philippines (Mt. Diwalwal) – Cyanide in Artisanal Gold Mining Mercury
|
2006 |
40,000 |
8,000 |
|
|
Philippines – Marilao Used Lead-Acid Battery Recycling
|
May 2005 |
102,000 |
34,680 |
|
|
Philippines – Meycauayan Tannery Center
|
0 |
180,000 |
61,200 |
|
|
Philippines – Remediation of Clark and Subic Bay
|
December 2007 |
77,000 |
|
|
|
Philippines and Indonesia – Urban Revitalization Through Mitigating Toxic Wastes
|
August 2014 |
12,675 |
Indonesia: approximately 4,000 |
|
Philippines:
Comprehensive Asssment – Iloilo City and Tagbilaran City
|
|
|
|
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Philippines:
Health and Pollution Action Plan
|
|
|
|
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Philippines:
Lead Smelter Cleanup in Pampanga
|
|
|
|
|
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Thailand – Environmental Law for the Wanting
|
|
|
|
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Thailand:
Health and Pollution Action Plan
|
2016 |
|
|
|
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TSIP Regional Training- Jakarta, Indonesia
|
June 11, 2009 |
|
|
|
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TSIP Training Dhaka, Bangladesh
|
July 14, 2009 |
|
|
|
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TSIP Training Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
|
October 15, 2009 |
|
|
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TSIP Training Los Baños, Philippines
|
October 4, 2009 |
|
|
|
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TSIP Training Phnom Penh, Cambodia
|
August 14, 2010 |
|
|
|
Vietnam:
Cleanup of Dong Mai Village
|
August 2013 |
3,000 |
600 |
286 |
Vietnam:
Preliminary Site Assessments in Bac Ninh
|
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