GMP2 Africa Midterm Workshop

Day 1 Monday 23 July, 2018

Progress of the POPs Global Monitoring Plan

1. Status Overview: POPs GMP in the Africa Region, Jacqueline Alvarez, UN Environment
2. Progress of the POPs Global Monitoring Plan in the Africa Region
   1. Abiotic air sampling in the Africa Region, Ike Van der Veen, VU
   2. Monitoring of dl-POPs and PFOS and its Precursors in Air – Africa Region, Heidelore Fiedler, MTM
3. Abiotic water sampling in the Africa Region, Heidelore Fiedler, MTM
4. 2016-2019  round human milk survey in the Africa Region, Rainer Malisch, CVUA
5. a. Sampling of matrices of national interest in the Africa Region, Ike Van der Veen, VU

5. b. Sampling of matrices of national interest in the Africa Region, Heidelore Fiedler, MTM
6. Progress of POPs monitoring on the regional level, MONET network of abiotic air sampling in the Africa Region and beyond, Katerina Sebkova, RECETOX
7. Progress of the POPs Monitoring Plan on the national level
   1. National progress on abiotic air sampling in Zambia Christopher Kanema, Zambia
   2. Projet régional Afrique de l’Ouest/ Afrique de l’Est: Monitoring des POP dans l’eau, l’air ambiant et le lait maternel, Marie Ndao and Mathilde Cabral, Senegal
   3. Échantillonnage et analyse des matrices nationales à intérêt majeur, Youssef Zidi, Tunisia

Day 2 Tuesday 24 July, 2018

Future needs, opportunities and challenges

1. a. Bi-ennial Global Interlaboratory Assessment on Persistent Organic Pollutants – Fourth Round, Ike Van der Veen, VU

1. b. Results and Conclusions from the 3rd Interlaboratory Assessment and Status of the 4th Interlaboratory Assessment, Heidelore Fiedler, MTM
2. Updates on the GMP regional organization group meeting and new guidance, Ana-Maria Witt, BRS
3. Updates of the GMP Data warehouse, Katerina Sebkova, RECETOX
4. Proposal on the analysis of other POPs in human milk beyond GMP2, Rainer Malisch, CVUA
5. New communication materials: Esteban Abad, CSIC
   1. Video: brief introduction to the guidelines for organization, sampling and analysis of the UNEP-coordinated survey of human milk for Persistent Organic Pollutants 
6. Template for national reports, Jacqueline Alvarez, UN Environment
7. GEF midterm review, Abou Thiam

Day 3 Wednesday 25 July, 2018

Next steps

1. Discussion on the future-plan for the sustainable monitoring of POPs beyond the 2^nd Phase Global Monitoring Plan , Katerina Sebkova, RECETOX
2. Group discussion on the future-plan for the sustainable monitoring of POPs beyond the 2^nd Phase Global Monitoring Plan: presentations by rapporteurs of each group 

• Group 1
• Group 2
• Group 3

3. Conclusions of the workshop, Jacqueline Alvarez, UN Environment