About this role

Result of Service

The Chemicals and Health Branch of the Industry and Economy Division leads UNEP's sub-programme on Chemicals, Waste and Air Quality. UNEP’s programme of work centers around assistance to countries and multilateral environmental agreement (MEA) secretariats to assist in technical-scientific issues related to priority chemicals and implementation of the United Nations Environment Assembly and Governing Council resolutions. The Knowledge and Risk Unit of the Chemicals and Health Branch promotes scientific approaches and knowledge for the sound management of chemicals including through implementation of United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) resolutions and Global Environment Facility (GEF) projects. The Knowledge and Risk Unit gathers, compiles and analyses state of the art information and data, including through monitoring activities, inventories and assessments, to allow policymakers to make informed decisions on the sound management of chemicals and waste. UNEP is leading the GEF-8 Integrated Programme (IP) on supply chains titled “Eliminating hazardous chemicals from supply chains”. This is a full-size project (FSP) for which the Knowledge and Risk Unit is executing the Global Coordination Project, “Global Replication to Eliminate Hazardous Chemicals from Supply Chains,” (GEF ID 11177). The Transparency and Traceability Specialist Consultant will develop knowledge products that identify, assess, and recommend options and technologies for enhancing transparency and consistency of information on hazardous substances in the fashion and construction supply chains.