Completed Projects

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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
Ghana (Agbogbloshie) – E-Waste Recycling November 2013 50,000 10,000 Projected 4,767
Ghana – Mapping Project June 2014
Ghana:
Health and Pollution Action Plan
Guinea – Gold Mining and Mercury Emissions April 2006 150,000 30,000
Guinea – Leaded Gas Phase Out Task Force 500,000 100,000 47,665
Guinea – PCB Cleanup and Removal 5,000 1,000 477
Mozambique (Manica) – Gold Mining and Mercury Emissions 2005 10,000 2,000 953
Mozambique (Maputo) – Center for Environmental Research and Advocacy June 2003
Mozambique – Leaded Gas Phase Out Task Force 2001 500,000 100,000 47,665
Mozambique – Supporting Environmental Journalists Group
Nigeria (Zamfara) – Lead Poisoning Crisis December 2010 71,000 12,000 5,720
Senegal (Baia de Hanne) – Industrial Pollution December 2005
Senegal (Kedougou) – Mercury in Artisanal Gold Mining 40,000 8,000
Senegal (Thiayore Sur Mer) – From Lead Battery Recycling to Hydroponics March 2008 40,000 8,000
Senegal – Monitoring Lead Gasoline Phase Out 2005 500,000 100,000
Somaliland (Ahava Valley) – Obsolete Pesticides Site 2014 200 40 19
Tanzania (Dar es Salaam) – Wastewater Treatment
Tanzania – Leaded Gasoline Phase Out 2003 500,000 100,000 47.665
Tanzania – Msimbazi River Action Network
Tanzania – Pollution Prevention in Lake Victoria 2001 247,000 49,400 23,547
Tanzania – Sewer Infrastructure 2001
TSIP – Nairobi, Kenya 2016
TSIP Regional Training- Dodowa, Ghana March 22, 2010
TSIP Regional Training- Johannesburg, South Africa June 18, 2009
TSIP Regional Training- Nairobi, Kenya June 11, 2009
TSIP Regional Training- Senegal, Nigeria August 9, 2010
TSIP Training Accra, Ghana March 22, 2012
TSIP Training Antananarivo, Madagascar March 25, 2014
TSIP Training Dakar, Senegal February 19, 2013
TSIP Training Dar es Salaam, Tanzania April 26, 2012
TSIP Training Lagos, Nigeria March 28, 2012
TSIP Training Nairobi, Kenya May 2, 2012
Zambia (Kabwe) – Environmental Rehabilitation Foundation 2003 340,000 68,000 32,412 projected upon completion
Zambia (Kabwe) – Lead Mines December 2003 340,000 68,000 34,412
Zambia (Kabwe) – Pilot Lead Remediation Project (Phase 1) Aug. 2015 2,000
Zambia – Contamination of the Kafue River Basin December 2005
Zambia:
Continuing Lead Cleanup in Kabwe
China
Project Start Date Total Population Affected Children Affected DALYs Associated
Changsha Chromates Factory
China (Chongqing) – Three Gorges Dam 15,000 3,000 1,430
China (Hunan and Jiangxi) – Stakeholder Engagement Demonstration October 2002
China (Jianxi) – Bioremediation of Farmland at Guixi Smelter February 2012 10,300 2,060 982
China (Yunnan) – Wenshan Arsenic Mining Remediation April 2004 8,600 directly affected; 3,200,000 indirectly affected 1,548 directly affected; 576,000 indirectly affected
China (Yunnan) – Fubao Village Pilot July 2002 9,000 1,800 858
China (Zhejiang) – Reduction of Lead Emissions from Smelters December 2013 5,000 30,000 14,300
China – Greener Beijing July 2002
China – Guiyu E-waste Processing March 2006 200,000 36,000
China – Stakeholder Engagement Demonstration 2012
Daobaoshan Mine 2009 3,300
Daye City Heavy Metals Pilot 2009
Diaojiang River Treatment Project—Nandan Guangxi, China 2009
Qingyuan City E-Waste Recycling 2009
Sichuan Earthquake Toxic Emissions 2008
TSIP Regional Training- Changsha, China April 11, 2009
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Project Start Date Total Population Affected Children Affected DALYs Associated
Armenia – Assessment of Heavy Metal Pollution August 2012 5,000 1,000 477
Armenia:
Cleanup of Historical Landmark, Akhtala Monastery Grounds 		October 2018
Azerbaijan:
Beach Cleanup in Sumgayit 		May 2014 10,000 2,000 953
Azerbaijan:
Persistent Obsolete Pesticide Removal in Salyan 		November 2017 2,000
Eastern Europe, Central Asia:
Inventory of Abandoned Pesticide Sites 		January 2012
Kyrgyzstan (Mailuu-Suu) – Legacy Uranium Dumps July 2008 250,000 77,500 23,833
Kyrgyzstan (Naiman) – Mercury Cleanup October 2015 1000
Kyrgyzstan (Sovetskoe) – Cleanup of Lead Contamination May 2016 1,800 400
Kyrgyzstan:
Legacy Pollution From Mining
Mongolia:
Training Artisanal Gold Miners To Go Mercury Free 		February 2014 75,000 15,000 7,150
Russia (Baikal) – Romanovka Uranium Mine June 2006 1,500
Russia (Bolshoi Balchug) – Riverbank of Nuclear Waste July 2006 64,000 10,240
Russia (Bryansk) – Chernobyl Radiation Remediation January 2002 500,000 80,000
Russia (Dzerzhinsk) – Groundwater Pollution April 2006 1000 160
Russia (Dzerzhinsk) – Water Treatment & Remediation Planning 2005
Russia (Karabash) – Polluting smelter 0 16,309 2,609
Russia (Krasnoufimsk) – Radioactive Waste Removal September 2005 50,000 8,000
Russia (Magadan) – Radioactive Remediation 0 130,000 20,800
Russia (Nizhny Novgorod) – Abandoned Pesticide Cleanup April 2005 7,000-10,000 1,120-1,600
Russia (North Sakhalin) – Improving waste disposal practices March 2005 37,800 6,048
Russia (Penza Oblast) – Chemical Weapons Dismantling April 2007
Russia (Popov Island) – Mercury Contaminated Pipes/Water Supply March 2005 2,500 400
Russia (Rudnaya Pristan) – River Valley Lead Exposure Mitigation November 2007 55,000 8,800
Russia (Siberia) – DDT Remediation 2011
Russia – Berezniki 181,900 29,104
Russia – Gorniak Mine Tailings
Russia – Groundwater Pollution in Pyra March 2010 4,000 640
Russia – Magnitogorsk 0 460,000 73,600
Russia – Mayak NGO/Government Cooperation and Instrument Calibration Project 0
Russia – Muslyumova Radioactive Sludge Removal May 2005 124,000 19,840
Russia – Ufa Legacy Dioxin Dumps April 2006 670,000 107,200
Russia – Volkhov 0 51,000 8,160
Russia – Water filtration for Pyra and Gavrilovka villages
Tajikistan (Saidov, Jami) – Pesticide Cleanup May 2017 50
Tajikistan – Mitigating Exposure to Radionuclides June 2014 5,000 1,000 477
TSIP Regional Training- Donetsk, Ukraine February 1, 2009
TSIP Training Astana, Kazakhstan June 12, 2013
TSIP Training Baku, Azerbaijan March 1, 2014
TSIP Training Baku, Azerbaijan March 1, 2012
TSIP Training Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan April 7, 2014
TSIP Training Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan April 7, 2012
TSIP Training Dushanbe, Tajikistan March 30, 2014
TSIP Training Dushanbe, Tajikistan March 30, 2012
TSIP Training Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia July 3, 2013
TSIP Training Vladivostok, Russia July 23, 2012
TSIP Training Yerevan, Armenia March 6, 2014
TSIP Training Yerevan, Armenia March 6, 2012
Ukraine (Horlivka) – Abandoned Chemical Plant November 2011 300,000 60,000
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
Colombia:
Protecting Children From Lead Poisoning in Malambo 		November 2017
Dominican Republic – Bajos de Haina Abandoned Lead Smelter March 2007 90,000
Panama – Battery Recycling January 2008 10,000 2,000
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:
Artisanal Gold Mining (ASGM) Remediation Planning 		October 2014 300,000 84,000
TSIP – La Paz, Bolivia January 19, 2017
TSIP Regional Training- Buenos Aires, Argentina June 25, 2009
TSIP Regional Training- Lima, Peru September 3, 2009
TSIP Regional Training- Panama City, Panama May 24, 2009
TSIP Toxic Site Identification – Brazil (Sao Paulo) December 2015 TBD
TSIP Training – Brazil August 26, 2019
TSIP Training La Paz, Bolivia June 18, 2013
TSIP Training Lima, Peru March 14, 2012
TSIP Training Mexico City, Mexico February 21, 2012
TSIP Training Montevideo, Uruguay March 7, 2012
TSIP Training Santiago, Chile August 1, 2012
TSIP Training- Buenos Aires, Argentina February 28, 2012
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:
Lead Cleanup in Kathgora 		October 2017
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 – 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
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
India – Vapi Industrial Estate
India – Wah-Umkrah River April 2004
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 (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:
Lead Smelter Cleanup in Pampanga
Thailand – Environmental Law for the Wanting
TSIP Regional Training- Jakarta, Indonesia June 11, 2009
TSIP Training Dhaka, Bangladesh July 14, 2009
TSIP Training Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam October 15, 2009
TSIP Training Los Baños, Philippines October 4, 2009
TSIP Training Phnom Penh, Cambodia August 14, 2010
Vietnam (Dong Mai) – Toxic Craft Village August 2013 3,000 600 286