Kick-off Meeting for the project “Development of Capacity for the Substitution and the Environmentally Sound Management (ESM) of Mercury-containing Medical Measuring Devices”, 18-19 November 2019 di Jakarta, Indonesia

The kick-off meeting was organized by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, the Asian Institute of Technology Regional Resource Center for Asia and the Pacific (AIT PRC.AP) and BCRC-SEA & SCRC Indonesia on 18-19 November 2019 in Building B, 2nd Floor, KLHK, Jakarta, Indonesia.

This meeting aims to:

• Provide an introduction to and involvement in the project to the project team in Indonesia;
• Present and discuss the findings of the rapid survey and situational analysis of the use, collection, transport, storage, processing, and potential substitution for medical measuring devices containing mercury;
• Procedures for compiling inventories; gaps between existing policy frameworks and actual practice on the ground; and an outline of guidelines on environmentally sound management (ESM) to be developed;
• Discuss detailed project work plans in Indonesia with appropriate activity dates.