C-1/DG.12 18 November 2009 ARABIC Original: ENGLISH C-13/DG.8 EC-8/DG.15 EC-58/8 C-1/2 EC-52/2 *CS-2009-6170.A* CS-2009-6170(A) distributed 19/11/2009
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page 7 Africa Programme Activities Undertaken in 2009 under Article VII, Implementation Support Africa Programme Activities Undertaken in 2009 under Article X, Assistance and Protection Africa Programme Activities Undertaken in 2009 under Article XI, International Cooperation International Cooperation and Assistance Activities Financed by Donors under the Africa Programme in 2009
Annex 1 page 8 Annex 1 AFRICA PROGRAMME ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN IN 2009 UNDER ARTICLE VII, IMPLEMENTATION SUPPORT Programme Dates Event Location Basic Course Thematic Workshops / Meetings Technical Assistance Visits 23 27 Mar Basic Course for Personnel from National Authorities 13 17 Jun Second Regional Basic Course for Personnel of National Authorities in Africa 2 Mar Subregional Training Course for Customs Officials from COMESA and SADC 2 & 25 Sept Subregional Workshop on Article VI Issues 21 & 22 Nov Subregional Parliamentarians Meeting for States Parties in the Great Lakes Region 1 17 Dec Subregional Training Course for Customs Officials from Central and West African States Parties on the Technical Aspects of the Transfers Regime 6 & 7 Mar National Training Course for Customs Officials from Malawi 15 & 16 Apr National Awareness Workshop for senior decision makers and stakeholders of the National Authority 2 April National Awareness Workshop for senior decision makers and stakeholders of the National authority of = expected number of participants Number of African Participants Paris, France 9 Centurion, South Africa Dar-es-Salaam, Istanbul, Turkey Arusha, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Lilongwe, Malawi Monrovia, Liberia Dodoma, 19 9 3 35 35 16 3 38
Annex 1 page 9 Programme Dates Event Location 18 & 19 May National Awareness Workshop for stakeholders of the National Authority of Burundi 20 May Briefing for the East Africa Legislative Assembly s Committee on Trade, Communication and Investment 21 May National Awareness Workshop for stakeholders of the National Authority of Kenya 18 & 19 Jun National Awareness Workshop for stakeholders of the National Authority of Congo 23 25 Jun National Awareness Workshop for stakeholders of the National Authority of Ghana 30 Jun & 1 Jul National Training Course for Customs Officials of the Republic of Senegal Bujumbura, Burundi Bujumbura, Burundi Number of African Participants 39 16 Nairobi, Kenya 23 Brazzaville, Congo 30 Accra, Ghana 11 Dakar, Senegal 30 African Participants in IPB Activities in 2009 under the Africa Programme Total Number of Participants Participants from Africa 350 300 250 Participants 200 150 100 50 0 Basic Course for Personnel from National Authorities, France Second Regional Basic Course for Personnel of National Authorities in Africa, South Africa Subregional Training Course for Customs Officials from COMESA and SADC Subregional Workshop on Article VI Issues, Turkey Activities Subregional Parliamentarians Meeting for States Parties in the Great Lakes region, Subregional Training Course for Customs Officials from Central and West African States Parties on the Technical Aspects of the Transfers Regime, Burkina Faso Technical Asssistance Visits
Annex 2 page 10 Annex 2 AFRICA PROGRAMME ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN IN 2009 UNDER ARTICLE X, ASSISTANCE AND PROTECTION Dates Event Location 16 20 Mar & 5 Apr 27 Apr 8 May 25 29 May 5 10 Jun 9 & 10 Jun Swiss Advanced Course I Spiez, Switzerland Workshop on the Convention and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and Their Contribution to the Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Practical training courses for countries in the West African subregion Advanced Training Course in Civil Defence against Chemical Weapons Final Regional Exercise of Emergency Response Regional Exercise of Emergency Response evaluation meeting Number of African Participants Ethiopia Nigeria (2) Tunisia Cavtat, Croatia 3 Algeria South Africa Tunisia Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso Lázně Bohdaneč, Czech Republic 32 Benin (3) Burkina Faso (9) Côte d Ivoire (5) Gabon (3) Guinea () Senegal () Togo () Algeria Mauritius Seychelles Uganda Algeria 18 Algeria (5) Libyan Arab Jamahiriya () Morocco (5) Tunisia () Algeria Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Tunisia Morocco (2) Source of Funding Swiss Government + APB regular Croatian Government + APB regular Norwegian Government + APB regular Czech Government + APB regular EU Joint Action EU Joint Action Funded with voluntary contributions.
Annex 2 page 11 Dates Event Location 8 12 Jun 22 26 Jun 7 11 Sept 1 18 Sept th International Course on Civil Protection Swiss Basic Course II Course on Assistance and Protection Against Chemical Weapons 5th Regional Course on Assistance and Protection for African Member States Kruševac, Serbia Spiez, Switzerland Number of African Participants 6 Algeria (2) Ethiopia Morocco Nigeria 7 Algeria (2) Burkina Faso Côte d Ivoire Madagascar Morocco South Africa Kuopio, Finland 3 Burundi South Africa Uganda Tshwane, South Africa 25 Algeria Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Côte d Ivoire (2) Ethiopia Kenya Lesotho Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (2) Madagascar Namibia (2) Nigeria Senegal Seychelles Sudan Tunisia Uganda (3) Zimbabwe Source of Funding Serbian Government + APB regular Swiss Government + APB regular Finnish Government + APB regular South African Government + APB regular
Annex 2 page 12 Dates Event Location 2 30 Oct 26 30 Oct 1 3 Nov 23 25 Nov 9 13 Nov 12 1 Nov 17 19 Nov Assistance Delivery Course for East African Countries Advanced Laboratory Skills Training Course 11th Annual Assistance Coordination Workshop under Article X of the Convention Workshop on the impact on the health and measures related to chemical weapons and other dangerous chemicals Swiss Laboratory Course I Protection Network Meeting ASSISTEX 3 Initial Planning Meeting Dar-Es-Salaam, Zemianske Kostolany, Slovakia Number of African Participants 27 Eritrea (2) Ethiopia () Kenya (3) Mauritius (2) Seychelles () Sudan (3) Uganda (5) () 3 Algeria Kenya Tunisia Doha, Qatar 5 Burundi Kenya Lesotho Sierra Leone Tunisia Lisbon, Portugal Spiez, Switzerland Barcelona, Spain Algeria Sierra Leone Uganda Burkina Faso Mauritius Morocco Nigeria 1 South Africa Tunis, Tunisia 8 Algeria Burkina Faso Morocco Senegal South Africa Uganda Zimbabwe TOTAL NUMBER OF AFRICAN PARTICIPANTS 158 Source of Funding Czech Government + British Government + APB regular Slovak Government + APB regular Qatari Government + APB regular APB regular Swiss Government + APB regular Spanish Government + APB regular APB regular
0 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 1 38 3 African Participants in APB Activities in 2009 under the Africa Programme 32 25 27 21 18 17 16 16 11 0 0 0 6 7 3 0 0 3 5 12 8 13 1 11 8 Swiss Laboratory Course I Protection Network Meeting Assistex 3 Initial Planning Meeting Other participants Participants from Africa Advanced Training Course Final Regional Exercise Emergency Response Regional Exercise Evaluation Fourth International Course on Civil Protection Swiss Basic Course II Finnish Course on Assistance Fifth Regional A&P Course for African MS East African Assistance Delivery Course Advanced Laboratory Skills Eleventh Assistance Coordination Workshop Medical Impact Workshop Activities Convention Workshop West Africa Training Courses Swiss Advanced Course I C-1/DG.12 Annex 2 page 13
Annex 3 page 1 Annex 3 AFRICA PROGRAMME ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN IN 2009 UNDER ARTICLE XI, INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION CONFERENCE SUPPORT PROGRAMME Number of Dates Event African Participants 30 Jan 1 Feb Bangladesh Chemical Congress, 1 Dhaka, Bangladesh 10 Apr CBMTS Industry VI and Fifth 3 World Congress on Chemical, Kenya Biological and Radiological South Africa Terrorism, Zambia Dubrovnik, Croatia 22 2 Apr 16th International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation, Big Sky, Montana, United States 5 8 Jul Chemistry for Food Security and Sustainable Development, Ezulwini, Swaziland 5 9 Jul 13th IUPAC International Conference on Polymers and Organic Chemistry (POC 09), Montréal, Canada 10 1 Aug 13th NAPRECA Symposium, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo 16 21 Aug ECM25, 25th European Crystallography Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey 21 25 Aug International Conference on Solution Chemistry (ICSC), Innsbruck, Austria Botswana Ghana Sierra Leone South Africa 9 Botswana Kenya Lesotho Morocco Nigeria South Africa Zambia Zimbabwe 2 Algeria (2) 2 Madagascar Rwanda 1 Morocco 1 Malawi Source of Funding
Annex 3 page 15 Dates CONFERENCE SUPPORT PROGRAMME Number of Event African Participants 6 10 Sept 7th Congress of Toxicology in Developing Countries: Harmonization of Toxicological Issues Between Developing and Developed Countries, Sun City, South Africa 10 1 Oct International Symposium of Molecular Environmental Soil Science at the Interfaces in the Earth s Critical Zone, Hangzhou, China 2 5 Nov International Conference on Environmental Pollution and Toxicology in Africa: Status and Strategies for Sustainable Environmental Quality, Kampala, Uganda 16 20 Nov 18th Biennal Meeting and Scientific Conference of the African Association of Insect Scientists (AAIS), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 2 Dec 10th International Symposium on Kinetics in Analytical Chemistry, Cape Town, South Africa 7 11 Dec 8th Training and Workshop of the East and Southern Africa Laboratory Managers Association, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2 Botswana 2 Kenya South Africa 9 Cameroon Ethiopia Ghana Kenya Lesotho Malawi Nigeria Sudan Zimbabwe Cameroon Côte d Ivoire Senegal Togo No African participants sponsored 12 Botswana (2) Kenya (3) Lesotho Sudan (2) Uganda (2) Zimbabwe Source of Funding
Annex 3 page 16 OTHER PROGRAMMES Programme Dates Event Location Internships Equipment Exchange Programme Kenya 1 Feb 30 Apr 2009 Nigeria 1 Apr 30 Jun 2009 Burkina Faso 25 May 17 Aug 2009 Uganda 6 Jul 5 Oct 2009 Madagascar 3 Sept 3 Nov 2009 Nigeria 1 Oct 31 Dec 2009 Kenya 1 Oct 31 Dec 2009 Nigeria 5 Nov Feb 2010 Ghana 1 Nov 30 Jan 2010 Nigeria 16 Nov 15 Feb 2010 Nigeria 16 Nov 15 May 2010 15 Sept 1 Mar 2010 Jan Dec 2009 Eight interns from Burkina Faso Kenya (2) Madagascar Nigeria (3) Uganda Two interns from Ghana (1) and Nigeria (1) One intern from Nigeria One intern from 3 reconditioned GC-MS 10 personal computers Austria, Canada South Africa Switzerland and USA Number of African Participants / Source of Funding 8 2 Voluntary contribution from Korea Netherlands 1 Voluntary contribution from the Netherlands China 1 Voluntary contribution from China Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Burundi, Burkina Faso (2), Cameroon, Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Liberia, Uganda, Zambia Donated by OPCW Laboratory 10 Voluntary contribution from China
Annex 3 page 17 Programme Dates Event Location Associate Programme Analytical Skills Development Courses & Laboratory Skills Enhancement 17 Jul 25 Sept 2009 15 participants Algeria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya (2), Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe 23 Mar 3 Apr 2009 Basic Analytical Chemistry Course 1 participants Algeria, Botswana (2), Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mauritius, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa (2) Tunisia, Uganda 29 May 12 Jun 2009 Analytical Skills Development Course 7 participants Botswana, Kenya, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Morocco, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia 7 18 Sept 2009 Laboratory Skills Enhancement 1 participant South Africa Belgium, Denmark, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom Number of African Participants / Source of Funding 15 + voluntary contribution from Japan and United Kingdom South Africa 1 + in-kind contribution from South Africa Finland 7 Finland 1
Programme Dates Event Location Laboratory Assistance Programme Support for Research Programme Industry Outreach 2 6 Mar 2009 Laboratory assistance training 3 participants Botswana, Nigeria, Zimbabwe 16 Nov 18 Dec 2009 Laboratory assistance training 3 participants Botswana Apr and Nov 2009 10 research projects supported 16 20 Nov 2009 Promoting Chemical- Safety Management for African Member States 10 participants Burundi, Côte D Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe C-1/DG.12 Annex 3 page 18 Number of African Participants / Source of Funding Kenya 3 United Kingdom Benin, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria (2), South Africa (3), Uganda 3 10 Germany 10 Voluntary contribution from Germany
Annex 3 page 19 CONFERENCE SUPPORT PROGRAMME Conference Support Programme - No. of Participants Participants from Africa Other Participants 200 180 160 10 130 120 13 12 Participants 100 80 60 0 20 3 67 52 0 2007 2008 2009 Year Conference Support Programme - No. of Conferences Africa Others 30 25 20 20 19 Conferences 15 18 10 5 6 7 8 0 2007 2008 2009 Year
Annex 3 page 20 ASSOCIATE PROGRAMME Associate Programme 2009 - Participation by Region Total 28 (Africa 15) 1% 0% 0% 32% 5% Participants from Africa Participants from Asia Participants from East Europe Participants from GRULAC Participants from WEOG Associate Programme - African Participants 30 25 13 20 11 13 Participants 15 10 11 13 15 5 0 2007 2008 2009 Year Participants from Africa Other Participants
Annex 3 page 21 LABORATORY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMME Laboratory Assistance Programme 2009 Participants from Africa Other Participants 7 6 5 5 2 3 2 1 2 2 0 2007 2008 2009 Year
Annex 3 page 22 ANALYTICAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT COURSE Analytical Skills Development Course 2009 Total 62 (Africa 22) 3% 10% 0% 35% 52% Participants from Africa Participants from Asia Participants from East Europe Participants from GRULAC Participants from WEOG Analytical Skills Development Course 2009 Participants from Africa Other Participants 70 60 50 0 Participants 30 20 10 36 30 20 11 0 22 0 2007 2008 2009 Year
Annex 3 page 23 EQUIPMENT EXCHANGE PROGRAMME Equipment Exchange Programme - by year 6 5 1 0 No. of Equipment Items 3 2 1 0 0 2007 2008 2009 Year Africa Others Equipment Exchange Programme 2009 - by region Participants from Africa Participants from Asia Participants from East Europe Participants from GRULAC Participants from WEOG 20% 0% 80%
Annex 3 page 2 SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH PROJECTS Support for Research Projects - by year Participants from Africa Other Participants 70 60 50 0 0 Participants 30 20 10 28 17 10 9 10 0 2007 2008 2009 Year Support for Research Projects 2009 - Participation by region 0% 11% 0% 52% 37% Participants from Africa Participants from Asia Participants from East Europe Participants from GRULAC Participants from WEOG
Annex 3 page 25 INTERNSHIP SUPPORT PROGRAMME Internship Support Programme 2009 Participants from Africa Other Participants 18 16 5 1 12 10 Participants 8 6 6 13 12 5 2 0 2007 2008 2009 Year Internship Support Programme 2009 Total 17 (Africa 12) 18% 0% 6% 6% Participants from Africa Participants from Asia Participants from East Europe Participants from GRULAC Participants from WEOG 70%
Annex page 26 Annex INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND ASSISTANCE ACTIVITIES FINANCED BY DONORS UNDER THE AFRICA PROGRAMME IN 2009 OPCW AFRICA PROGRAMME ACTIVITIES FUNDED BY DONORS IN 2009 Contributions Programme / Date and Donor Cash Project Venue In Kind (EUR) 1 Training course TBD Algeria,000 for customs officials from Central and West Africa Norway 65,000 Switzerland 2 Basic and advanced courses for West African States Parties 3 Subregional exercise and evaluation meeting for North African countries project Capacity-building project for States Parties in East Africa 5 Regional annual protection course for African States Parties 6 Basic analytical chemistry course 7 Subregional training course for customs officials from Central and West Africa 27 Apr 8 May 2009; Burkina Faso Mar 2009; Algeria Training, instructors, training equipment Burkina Faso Local transport, reception, facility, coffee breaks Algeria EU Joint Action 2007 35,000 Exercise/conference facilities, internal transportation 2 30 Oct 2009 Czech Republic 38,972 United 1,735 Kingdom Annually South Africa Training facilities, training, internal transportation, lunch 23 Mar Apr 2009; Protechnik Laboratories, Pretoria, South Africa 7 Mar 2009: Dar-es-Salaam, South Africa Finland Netherlands 20,507 Norway 19,98 Venue, laboratory facilities, staff, meals, transport Staff time Total for 2009 = EUR 19,198.
Annex page 27 OPCW AFRICA PROGRAMME ACTIVITIES FUNDED BY DONORS IN 2009 Contributions Programme / Date and Donor Project Venue In Kind 8 Internship Support Programme 9 Associate Programme 10 Industry Outreach Programme 11 Equipment Exchange Support Cash (EUR) 15 Sept 1 China Mar 2010 16 Nov Republic of 18,909 15 Feb 2010 Korea 1 Nov 30 Jan 2010 16 Nov Netherlands 0,688 15 Mar 17 Jul Japan 20,000 25 Sept United 6,853 Kingdom 16 20 Nov Germany 35,97 Air ticket, DSA, training Dec China Donation of 10 personal computers This amount covers two internships, one of which will commence in January 2010. This amount covers 2009 and 2010. - - - o - - -