SAICM See the SAICM Secretariat website for regional activities in the GRULAC region Panama - Regional workshop on development of legal and institutional infrastructures for sound management of chemicals Ecuador - The UNDP-UNEP Partnership Initiative for the integration of sound management of chemicals into the national development plan Belize - The UNDP-UNEP Partnership Initiative for the integration of sound management of chemicals into the national development plan Honduras - The UNDP-UNEP Partnership Initiative for the integration of sound management of chemicals into the national development plan Belize- Regional Workshop for facilitating understanding between officials responsible for development planning and officials responsible for chemicals management Heavy metals: mercury Chile – mercury waste management Project on the safe storage of excess mercury Brazil Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining projects POPs Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Cuba – Dioxin / Furan inventories Argentina, Chile, Cuba Paraguay – Workshops and training on action plans and estimation of unintentional POPs Mexico - Emission factors for open burning of waste Emisiones de dioxinas y furanos por quema incontrolada de biomasa Bahamas, Barbados, Haiti and Cuba - GMP implementation and to strengthening POPs analysis Chile - Taller sub-regional “Planes de Acción para PCBs y Dioxinas/Furanos en el Marco del Plan Nacional de Aplicación del Convenio de Estocolmo” (2004) Trinidad and Tobago - Sub-Regional Workshop on National Inventory of Dioxin and Furan Releases in the Context of the Stockholm Convention, 2003