Assessment of existing capacity and capacity- building needs to analyse POP 's in developing countries , is a global project thewhose aim of which is to assess the convention-driven country needs for laboratory analysis and assess theconduct feasibility of establishing a fully equipped laboratoriesy in a developing country that may be able to analyze all twelve POP 's , including dioxins and furans ; Development of a nNational pPlan for the iImplementation of the Stockholm Convention , on POP 's ) is a multi-country programme that aims to strengthen national capacity to manage POP 's and assist countries meet their obligations under the Stockholm Convention in 11 countries , namely , Bulgaria , Chile , Ecuador , Guinea , Lebanon , Mali , Micronesia , Papua , New Guinea , Slovenia , Zambia and , Belarus ; Enabling activities for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants ( POP 's ) : nNational iImplementation pPlans for Africa ( Benin , Cameroon , Côte d'Ivoire , Gambia , Madagascar , Mauritania , Mozambique , Kenya , Senegal , South Africa , and Zimbabwe ) , ; Asia and the Pacific ( Cambodia , Fiji , Kiribati , Marshall Islands , Nauru , Palau , Sri Lanka , Thailand , Tonga , and Vanuatu ) , ; Eastern and Central Europe ( Kyrgyz , Serbia and Montenegro , Paraguay , Tajikistan , Ukraine and Uruguay , Yugoslavia , Serbia and Montenegro ) ; Latin America and the Caribbean ( Antigua and Barbuda , Argentina , Cambodia , Cuba , Fiji , Haiti , Paraguay , Peru , and Saint Lucia and Uruguay , ) and the ; Middle East ( Jordan , Oman , Syria , and Yemen ) ; Regional Program of Action and Demonstration of Sustainable Alternatives to DDT for Malaria Vector Control , is a project that aims at strengthening national and local institutional capacity to control malaria without the use of DDT ; and the elimination of DDT stockpiles in the 8eight participating countries in Latin America ( Belize , Costa Rica , El Salvador , Guatemala , Honduras , Mexico , Nicaragua , Panama , Belize ) ;