Activities of the IOMC to support SAICM Implementation

Overview

The Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC) was established in 1995 to strengthen cooperation and increase coordination among intergovernmental organizations in the field of chemical management. The IOMC currently comprises nine participating organizations: FAO, ILO, UNDP, UNEP, UNIDO, UNITAR, WHO, the World Bank, and OECD. The individual IOMC organizations have all endorsed or formally acknowledged support for SAICM, and their activities support the SAICM objectives as well as implementation of the Global Plan of Action, which identifies IOMC organizations as actors for eighty percent of its activities. These activities are formally coordinated by the IOMC, including through its bi-annual meetings. During these meetings, IOMC regularly holds discussions with the Secretariats of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Convention, the interim Secretariat of the Minamata Convention, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and with the SAICM Secretariat.