How to become a Partner
The Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint is a voluntary collaborative initiative to focus and catalyze the efforts of a diverse range of stakeholders to achieve international goals to prevent children's exposure to lead from paint and to minimize occupational exposures to lead paint.
The Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint is a joint undertaking of United Nations Environment and the World Health Organization (WHO).
More information on how to become a partner and a sample letter of intent to join the Lead Paint Alliance.
What it means to become a partner to the Lead Paint Alliance
- Making a commitment to achieving the overall goals and objectives of the work of the Global Alliance
- Contributing financially and / or in-kind technical expertise to the development & implementation of activities which help in achieving the goals and objectives of the Global Alliance
- Working in accordance with the Operational Framework for the work of the Global Alliance
- Being identified publicly as a contributor on the Global Alliance website
- Networking, sharing information and participating with other contributors in the Global Alliance
- Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint: Brand Identity Guidelines
Current Partners
The Global Alliance is made up of diverse members or “partners” committed to taking actions to support the goals of the Alliance, including governments, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), private industry, academia and interested individuals. United Nations Environment and the World Health Organization jointly provide the secretariat support to the Global Alliance.
Current partners' support letters are available below.
Governments
- Brazil (2017)
- Burkina Faso (2018)
- Canada (2014)
- Colombia (2019)
- Germany (2015)
- Honduras (2013)
- Israel (2016)
- Italy (2023)
- Kenya:
Kenya National Cleaner Production Centre (KNCPC) (2014)
Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute (KIRDI) (2014)
Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) (2015) - Madagascar (2018)
- Niger (2015)
- Paraguay (2012)
- Philippines (2015)
- Republic of Cameroon (2013)
- Republic of Moldova (2015)
- Switzerland (city of Geneva) (2012)
- Tanzania (2015)
- Thailand (2015)
- Uganda (2014)
- United States of America:
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) (2024)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (2012)
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2013) - Vietnam (2018)
Intergovernmental Organizations
- International Labour Organization (ILO) (2019)
- UN Environment, Economy Division, Chemicals and Health Branch (2009)
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (2020)
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) (2014)
- World Health Organization (WHO) (2009)
Non Governmental Organizations*
- Africa Foundation for Community Development (AFCOD-Uganda) (2019) - Uganda
- Architectural Association of Kenya (AAK) (2016) - Kenya
- Association for Community Development (ACD) (2019) - Bangladesh
- AGENDA for Environment and Responsible Development (AGENDA) (2012) - Tanzania
- American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (2018)
- APROMAC Environment Protection Association (2016) - Brazil
- Armenian Women for Health and Healthy Environment (AWHHE) (2012) - Armenia
- Association des Familles Victimes du Saturnisme (AFVS) (2017) - France
- ASTM International (2023) - USA
- BaliFokus Foundation (2013) - Indonesia
-
Back To Basics (BTB) (2019) - Kenya
- Caribbean Poison Information Network (CARPIN) (2019) - Jamaïca
- Casa Cem (2019) - Mexico
- Centre for Environmental Justice (CEJ) (2014) - Sri Lanka
- Center for Public Health and Environmental Development (CEPHED) (2012) - Nepal
- Centre de Recherche et d'Education pour le Développement (CREPD) (2011) - Cameroon
- Chemical Safety Agency (2020) - Ukraine
- Children's Environmental Health Foundation (CEHF) (2011) - Zambia
- Cleaner Production Unit - Royal Scientific Society (2022) - Jordan
- Eco-Accord (2019) - Russian Federation
- Eco Ethics Kenya (EEK) (2015) - Kenya
- Ecological Waste Coalition of the Philippines, Inc. (EcoWaste Coalition) (2013) - Philippines
- Environment and Social Development Organization (ESDO) (2013) - Bangladesh
- Foundation to Support Civil Initiatives (2020) - Tajikistan
- Gamarjoba (2020) - Georgia
- Greenwomen (2012) - Kazakhstan
- Grupo GEA (2014) - Peru
- Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) (2015) – European Union
- INCHES (2020) - Children's environmental health network
- Inclusion Ghana (2014) - Ghana
- IndyAct (2012) - Lebanon
- International Pediatric Association (IPA) (2014) - Pediatricians
- International Pollutants Network Elimination (IPEN) (2012) – NGO network
- Jeunes volontaires pour l'Environnement (JVE) (2012) – Cote d’Ivoire
- Lata Medical Research Foundation (2014) - India
- Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP) (2020) - United Kingdom
- The LEAD Group Inc. (2018) - Australia
- LEADERS Nepal (2014) - Nepal
- Les Amis de la Terre (2019) - Togo
- Living Science Foundation (2018) - Nigeria
- National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) (2015) - USA
- Occupational Knowledge (OK) International (2012) - USA
- Orissa State Volunteers and Social Workers Association (OSVSWA) (2015) - India
- Peshsaf (2020) - Tajikistan
- Pollution Control Association of Liberia (POCAL) (2012) - Liberia
- Pure Earth (formerly Blacksmith Institute) (2014) - USA
- RightOnCanada (2015) - Canada
- Society for Advancement of Occupational and Environmental Health (SAOEH) (2015) - India
- The Just Environment Charitable Trust (Toxics Link) (2012) - India
- Toxisphera Environmental Health Association (2016) - Brazil
- Uganda Network on Toxic Free Malaria Control (UNETMAC) (2012) - Uganda
- Vital Strategies (2022) - USA
*Including, but not limited to medical, housing, and public health organizations; and environmental health organizations.
Industry: Trade Associations and Manufacturing Companies
- ABRAFATI Associacao Brasileira dos Fabricantes de Tintas (2016) - Brazil
- American Coatings Association (ACA) (2016) - USA
- Asociación Española de Fabricantes de Pintura y Tinta de Imprimir (ASEFAPI) (2017) - Spain
- Asociación Nacional de Fabricantes de Pinturas y Tintas A.C. (ANAFAPYT, A.C.) (2016) - Mexico
- Association of Turkish Paint Industry (BOSAD) (2017) - Türkiye
- AkzoNobel (2015) – The Netherlands
- Australian Paint Manufacturers' Federation Inc. (APMF) (2016) - Australia
- British Coating Federation Ltd (BCF) (2016) – United Kingdom
- Canadian Paint and Coatings Association (CPCA) (2016) - Canada
- Fendwall Paints and Chemical Products (2016) - Nigeria
- Federation Francaise des Industries des Peintures, Encres, Couleurs, Colles et Adhesifs, Preservation du Bois (FIPEC) (2016) - France
- German Paint and Printing Ink Association (VdL) (2016) - Germany
- International Paint and Painting Ink Council (IPPIC) (2013) - International
- Jotun A/S (2016) – Norway
- Malaysian Paint Manufacturers’ Association (2017) - Malaysia
- Nano Science and Electronic Communication (NASEC) (2017) - Switzerland
- Pacific Paint (Boysen) Philippines, Inc. (2015) - Philippines
- Philippine Association of Paint Manufacturers (PAPM) (2017) - Philippines
- Portuguese Paint Association (APT) (2016) - Portugal
- Powder Coating Research Group (2019) - United States of America
- Swiss Coatings Federation (VSLF) (2016) - Switzerland
- VES SA (2019) - Romania
Academia
- Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET), University of Pennsylvania (2020) - USA
- Dr Scott Clark (University of Cincinnati) (2011) - USA
- Dr Paul Dargan (Medical Toxicology Office Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust) (2011) - United Kingdom
- Indira Gandhi Government Medical College (2014) - India
- Loyola University Chicago Civitas ChildLaw Center (2014) - USA
- NYU Langone Health's Department of Pediatrics - Division of Environmental Pediatrics (2018) - USA
- University of Nairobi (2016) - Kenya
