Print pageIn accordance with paragraph 24 of the SAICM Overarching Policy Strategy, ICCM will undertake periodic reviews of SAICM. Arrangements for periodic reporting by stakeholders were considered at the second session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM) held in Geneva from 11 to 15 May 2009. Agreements reached at the second session includes a set of indicators for tracking progress in implementation and the time periods for a baseline report (covering the period 2006-2008) and a first progress report (covering the period 2009-2011).
The second session of the Conference requested the secretariat to prepare guidance to explain the indicators and to prepare a simple electronic data collection tool that can be used by stakeholders in providing information. Data reported by stakeholders (in Government, in non-governmental organizations, intergovernmental organizations and industry) will be aggregated on a regional and global basis. The secretariat will analyze the information reports and provide a concise summary identifying major trends.
The data collection tool
The data collection tool will be in the form of an online questionnaire with questions designed to collect information in relation to each indicator. As the focus of the agreed indicators is largely numeric the questions have been structured as far as possible to require simple “yes” of “no” type answers. Provision will also be made in the questionnaire for explanatory material, examples and linkages to additional information to be given.
The Guidance
Guidance is closely associated with the online system through the use of explanatory notyes to the questions and instructions on how to use the online form.
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Testing the data collection tool and comments on the accompanying guidance will be invited from early January 2010 to mid February 2010.
- Baseline report.
The secretariat will prepare a baseline report from existing data such as those obtained though the routine reporting carried out ahead of regional meetings and the second session of the Conference. This will be supplemented by stakeholders submitting additional data using the online form by 15 March 2010. The secretariat will supplement the information obtained from respondents with its own data, for example on the number of applications made to the Quick Start Programme Trust Fund and data from the secretariats of multilateral environment agreements. A draft report will be prepared by the secretariat by the end of March 2010.
- First periodic report
In accordance with the decision of the Conference, the first periodic report will cover the period 2009-2011. Data collection will take place in two phases the first 2009 to 2010, for review at the Open-ended Working Group, and a subsequent update for 2011. Data will be collected using the online data collection tool prepared in connection with the baseline report.
Any necessary adjustments to the data collection tool, the baseline report and the first progress report may be considered by the Open-ended Working Group in the light of experience.