This project seeks to generate reliable data, undertake unique knowledge and technology transfer to the participating laboratories, and develop studies to strengthen environmental governance in the region. The project will continue over a period of three years. To undertake monitoring and analysis of land-based sources of pollution in the East Asian region. To promote access to information, sustained exchange of information and effective dissemination of results. To interpret data for policy options, providing impetus for accurate decision-making by key actors.
All analysis is undertaken by the participating laboratories themselves.
Laboratories are given responsibility to plan and implement the project at the national level. Samples are analyzed twice each year, and reviewed after the first analysis. At each training workshop, instruction is given in the preparation of reference materials for the purposes of analysis. The reference samples generated are taken back by the participating chemists to their home laboratories, and used as the basis for carrying out analysis under the project. The approach of the training workshops is to train the trainers.