This guidance provides information and strategies to enhance collaboration with national statistical offices (NSOs) and other relevant institutions. The aim is to address the identified gaps in data and related information of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), particularly in sectors such as electronics, transportation, and imported/in-use/end-of-life vehicles.

The document also includes recommendations for strengthening dialogue with the NSOs and other responsible institutions to improve and supplement the production of national statistics relevant to POPs data for the review and updating of national implementation plans (NIPs). The target audience is the national focal points of the Stockholm Convention, policymakers and government officials involved in the NIP review process.

Within the framework of the “Global Development, Review and Update of NIPs under the Stockholm Convention on POPs” project to assist countries to review and update their NIPs, the Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) is executing Component 4, which focuses on the dissemination of information, management of knowledge and liaising with the Stockholm Convention Secretariat in providing information and tools to be integrated with existing materials and to make them easily accessible and understandable by all parties to the convention.