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The RBH Network - a global network to support businesses on implementing HREDD

August 2025

Challenge: Increasing sustainability requirements from international buyers meet lack of understanding and awareness at supplier level

Objective: Improved local capacities and awareness on new requirements for export readiness and competitiveness

Approach: Establish RBH with suitable partner institutions for a long-term anchoring of servies on the ground

Impacts: Since end of 2022 over 2500 suppliers in 8 countries have made use of the support services of the RBH

Country: Germany

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Lead Paint Reformulation Technical Guidelines

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Lead Paint Alliance SAICM UN Environment Programme , World Health Organization

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May 2022

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The Lead Paint Reformulation Technical Guidelines have developed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and guided by the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint. The document provide a comprehensive starting point for all stakeholders to learn more about paint reformulation and best practices. They offer general information on processes and provide a step-by-step approach to reformulation, indicating where to find relevant information such as alternative raw materials and additional details such as standards for testing and in-depth case studies.The

Emerging Policy Issues: Lead in paint

Topics: Policymaking

Policy document

Model Law and Guidance for Regulating Lead Paint

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UNEP ,

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July 2018

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UN Environment, in cooperation with World Health Organization, United States Environment Protection Agency and other partners, has developed a model law and guidance in order to assist countries in establishing and implementing regulation on lead paint.The purpose of this guidance is to assist countries to enact new laws (or to modify their existing laws) to establish a single regulatory limit on the total lead content in paints. The guidance describes the key elements of effective and enforceable legal requirements. It

Emerging Policy Issues: Lead in paint

Topics: Policymaking

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Reformulation is Entirely Possible: Summary of the Lead Paint Reformulation Technical Guidelines and How to Use this Information

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Lead Paint Alliance , SAICM UN Environment Programme , World Health Organization

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May 2022

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This document summarizes information from the Lead Paint Reformulation Technical Guidelines, the findings and recommendations of the reformulation pilot demonstrations, and two case studies of paint manufacturers which have reformulated paint products. This summary is also intended to highlight how the information from the Guidelines can be used by different stakeholders involved in the phasing out of lead paint.The full set of technical guidelines can be accessed here.The guidelines were made possible under a global project funded by the Global

Emerging Policy Issues: Lead in paint

Topics: Policymaking

Report

Women, Chemicals and the SDGs

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IPEN , SAICM

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December 2020

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Gender Review Mapping with a Focus on Women and Chemicals: Impact of Emerging Policy Issues and the Relevance for the Sustainable Development GoalsThe aim of this report is to show the impact chemicals have on women as a vulnerable group highly exposed to hazardous chemicals and gender inequalities related to decision-making around the management of chemicals and waste. The report also means to provide concrete steps that can be taken to safeguard the health of women and empower women in

Topics: Gender mainstreaming

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Guidance on organizing an advocacy or awareness-raising campaign on lead paint

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World Health Organization UNEP ,

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October 2020

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This document has been developed as part of a project to accelerate progress towards the establishment of legally binding controls on the manufacture, sale, distribution, import and use of lead paint in countries, funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and executed by the Secretariat of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM). It is a contribution to the work of the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint (the Lead Paint Alliance). The Lead Paint Alliance is a voluntary

Emerging Policy Issues: Lead in paint

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Brief guide to analytical methods for measuring lead in blood (Second edition)

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World Health Organization GEF

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August 2020

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Lead is a toxic metal whose widespread use has caused extensive environmental contamination and health problems in many parts of the world. Lead is a cumulative toxicant that affects multiple body systems, including the neurological, haematological, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal and renal systems. Long-term effects include increased risk of hypertension, ischaemic heart disease and renal disease. Children are particularly vulnerable to the neurotoxic effects of lead, and even low levels of exposure can impair cognitive development and cause behavioural disorders. These

Emerging Policy Issues: Lead in paint

Policy document

Global elimination of lead paint: why and how countries should take action - Policy brief

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World Health Organization

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August 2020

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Lead has toxic effects on almost all body systems and is especially harmful for children and pregnant women. Lead paint is an avoidable source of exposure to lead. “Lead paint” or “lead-based paint” is paint to which one or more lead compounds have been intentionally added by the manufacturer to obtain specific characteristics. One important way to prevent exposure is for countries to establish legally binding regulatory measures prohibiting the addition of lead to paint.This policy brief summarizes key information

Emerging Policy Issues: Lead in paint