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 Training
courses and workshops at the country level are also organized
in selected countries in the Southeast Asian region that have
established technical cooperation programs with ICEIT. During
1998-2006, in-country training has been organized in Vietnam,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. Justification
of local training in certain countries is predicated on the need
to train a critical number of personnel to be potential trainers
for subsequent training at the national level, to ensure that
training is appropriate to existing facilities and implementation
mechanisms in each participating country, so that displacement
of personnel as well as costs for provision of training are minimized.
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The
training activities have enabled ICEIT to earn international recognition.
In 1990, United Nations Environmental Programme designated ICEIT
“UNEP Centre of Excellence in Environmental and Industrial Toxicology”
in recognition of the outstanding activities that it has undertaken.
Since
its establishment, the program has received support continuously
from various sources such as UNDP, the Royal Thai Government’s
Department of Technical and Economic Cooperation, Asian Development
Bank, United Nations Environment Programme and ASEAN Foundation.
In
2005, as a result of collaboration between CRI and World Health
Organization in the area of Health and Environment within the
region (SEARO, WPRO), CRI was designated