Ukraine: Hazardous Waste Management and Policy Development Project (WB-P508568)

Regions
  • Europe and Central Asia
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Countries
  • Ukraine
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • World Bank (WB)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Proposed
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Bank Risk Rating
A
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Voting Date
Nov 25, 2026
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
Government of Ukraine - Ministry of Finance; Ministry of Economy and Environment
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Education and Health
  • Law and Government
  • Water and Sanitation
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Investment Type(s)
Grant
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 13.53 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 13.53 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Bank Documents
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ WB website

Updated in EWS Sep 3, 2026

Disclosed by Bank Feb 10, 2025

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Project Description
If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

According to the Bank’s website, the Project Development Objective is to strengthen the capacity of the Government of Ukraine to manage PCBs, mercury, and asbestos in line with good international industry practice.

The project supports the key priorities of the Government of Ukraine as outlined in the country's National Plan for Waste Management up to 2033. The challenges and priorities span strategic and policy agenda, strengthening of respective institutions charged with functions of hazardous waste management and the need for fast response to address immediate infrastructure gaps and pilot scalable solutions for testing, transport, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste.

The proposed Project's design consists of four components:

Component 1. Institutional capacity and policy development for HWM
1.1. Development of policy and regulations on hazardous waste in line with good international industry practice (GIIP) and EU acquis.
1.2. Building capacity in management and monitoring of hazardous waste across relevant institutions.

Component 2. Inventory, mapping and integrated planning for HWM
2.1. Stocktaking and Technical Support for Hazardous Waste Inventory.
2.2. Integrated planning of hazardous waste management.

Component 3. Demonstration investments for sustainable HWM
3.1. Equipping a national reference laboratory (in a priority region) outfitted with the necessary testing equipment.
3.2. Demonstration of safe PCB and mercury handling, transport and interim containment solutions.
3.3. Piloting of priority PCB and mercury remediation and disposal measures.

Component 4. Project management and monitoring.
This component will finance the operating costs of the oversight and management functions of the project.

Early Warning System Project Analysis
For a project with severe or irreversible impacts to local community and natural resources, the Early Warning System Team may conduct a thorough analysis regarding its potential impacts to human and environmental rights.

The Environmental Risk of the project activities is High. All three components may have direct negative impacts on human health and natural environment due to the physical intervention of hazardous wastes like PCB, mercury, asbestos management. The exposure risk will be aggravated due to improper transportation, handling, storing,
remediation and disposal.

Social Risk is High. Physical activities under Component 3,are expected to be pilot scale, including constructing small scale infrastructure, handling, storage, transport and operation of various treatment technologies at identified sites, for limited waste volumes, and therefore the number of project workers is limited. However, owing to the high toxicity of substances, there are potentially significant adverse health risk to workers’ from exposure to toxic substances while executing these activities. In addition there is a potential exposure of surrounding communities to toxic substances from spills or transport accidents, or from leachate entering soil and groundwater, if the pilot activities fail to operate as designed or remediation activities under are partially or not successful. These risks may be enhanced by the current situation in Ukraine (potential aerial attacks on the construction site and unexploded ordnances, and limited implementation capacity of MEE.

Investment Description
Here you can find a list of individual development financial institutions that finance the project.

Total Project Cost: US$ 13.53 million
Global Environment Facility (GEF): US$ 11.83 million
Ukraine Relief, Recovery, Reconstruction, and Reform TF: US$ 8.70 million


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CONTACT POINT - World Bank

Task Team Leader: Irina Ghaplanyan
Title: Senior Climate Change Specialist
Email: ighaplanyan@worldbank.org

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