Pesticides are inherently hazardous, and among them, a relatively small number of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) cause disproportionate harm to the environment and human health including severe environmental hazards, high acute and chronic toxicity.

The goal of the HHPs CoP (learn more about HHPs here) is to foster online discussions and multisectoral engagement that will identify key issues related to HHPs and exchange best practices on how to address this Emerging Policy Issue. 

Outcomes of these discussions may also contribute to the deliberations under the SAICM’s  intersessional process (IP4) and the fifth International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM5).

Past sessions

Community members

Samuel Fuhrimann
We work with partners in 12 countries and provide capacity building to communities to do community monitoring of pesticides on human health and the environment. With such information communities then decide on pesticide reduction and move towards agroecology.We organise learning exchanges on agroecology at the national and regional levels and support capacity building agreocolgical practices.We share and distribute scientific and policy information for example, the publication, "Replacing Chemicals with Biology" and a list of countries and banned pesticides.We organise awareness campaigns, for example, Protect Our Children from Toxic pesticides and No Pesticide Use Week
Eduardo Caldera Petit
I am the SAICM Programme Officer in charge of the overall management of SAICM GEF funded projects on emerging chemical policy issues. I am also the Knowledge Management Officer who coordinates the development of knowledge and information on chemicals management and responsible for the SAICM knowledge management platform/clearinghouse.My work contributes to ensuring that information is available, accessible, user-friendly, adequate, and appropriate amongst SAICM stakeholders so that policy and decision-makers can take action for the sound management of chemicals towards a healthier environment.I have over twelve years of experience in project management, capacity building, and policy advisory at the United Nations
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Gonzalo Alberto Forero Buitrago

By knowing statistics, it is feasible to develop an efficient management strategy to achieve the circular economy of e-waste, and therefore it is extremely important to work on the formalization of the value chain in order to know the statistics a

Joseph Denougbeto
I asked our Benin government about the Lead Paint regulation, the Mercury regulation, the Special POPs regulation and Marine Litters regulation. The government is working already for the Lead paint regulation, for the Mercury regulation and for the Special POPs regulation. The Mercury regulation and the Special POPs regulation are already budgeted and if there was not COVID-19 pandemic there would have a substantial progress for those regulations. I organized campaigns for sensitizing students in schools about climate change, lead paint and mercury. I sensitized building painters about lead paint and I made paint companies aware of the reduction of
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Jovita Tamosaityte

I am currently serving as the Knowledge Management Officer for the GEF-funded the Implementing Sustainable Low and Non-Chemical Development in Small Island Developing States (ISLANDS) Programme which supports Small Islands Developing States (SIDS)

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