Raising Awareness to Support Governments

Presentation at the Sub-regional workshop on lead paint elimination for Central Asia and Eastern Europe. This presentation from a sub regional workshop on lead paint elimination for Central Asia and Eastern Europe is bilingual, with content in English and Russian. It outlines regional efforts to eliminate lead in paints, focusing on raising awareness to support government action. It presents laboratory findings showing that many household paints exceed safe lead levels, sometimes reaching extremely high concentrations. The document includes country data, market sources, labelling practices, and evidence from Kazakhstan, and reviews regulations, highlighting enforcement gaps, especially for imports.