The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note, with appreciation, the final reports on the pilot ODS waste management and disposal projects for Georgia and Ghana, submitted by UNDP, and for Nepal, submitted by UNEP;
2. To invite bilateral and implementing agencies to take into account, when appropriate, the lessons learned from the pilot ODS waste disposal demonstration projects mentioned in sub‑paragraph (a) above, in the design and implementation of similar projects in future;
3. To request UNDP:
   1. To complete the pilot ODS waste disposal project in Brazil by December 2022, to submit the final report of the project to the first meeting of 2023 and a project completion report no later than July 2023, and to return fund balances no later than December 2023, on the understanding that no further extensions of the completion date of the project would be considered by the Executive Committee;
   2. To complete the pilot ODS waste disposal project in Colombia by June 2019, to submit the final report of the project to the last meeting of 2019 and a project completion report no later than June 2020, and to return fund balances no later than December 2020, on the understanding that no further extensions of the completion date of the project would be considered by the Executive Committee;
   3. To submit annual progress reports for the pilot ODS disposal projects in Brazil and Colombia as “projects with specific reporting requirements” until the projects had been completed;
4. To request bilateral and implementing agencies to submit final reports on outstanding ODS disposal pilot projects other than those in sub-paragraph (c) above, and to return to the 82^nd meeting the remaining balances for projects for which reports had not been submitted to the 80^th or 81^st meeting; and
5. To request the Secretariat to submit to the 82^nd meeting a synthesis report on the pilot ODS disposal projects completed thus far, collating lessons learned, and including issues related to project design, synergy with other projects, opportunities for resource mobilization, and the cost-effectiveness of the projects.