The East Africa Sub-Regional Workshop on the Establishment of Legal Limits on Lead in Paint took place on 2-3 December 2015, at the United Nations Conference Centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The workshop was organized to take pace just before the UN Environment/IPEN Regional Lead Paint Elimination Project in Africa Workshop, on 4 December.
The session included an overview of the Toolkit for establishment laws to eliminate lead paint and specific presentations of the Toolkit modules, including specific national case studies from Africa. At the workshop, government officials and stakeholders from 15 African countries agreed on the need to phase out the use of lead in paint and adopt a harmonized standar of 90 ppm total lead across Africa.
