This report summarizes the Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) webinar Making Data Work: Applying GMP and POPs Inventories for Evidence-Based Policy in NIP held on 30 January 2026. The event explored how countries can better use data — particularly from the Global Monitoring Plan (GMP) and national POPs inventories — to enhance NIP development and implementation and inform policy design.
The webinar featured practical insights from experts at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm (BRS) Conventions, highlighting past and ongoing GMP efforts and opportunities to strengthen environmental governance through better data use. Country examples from Kenya and Uruguay further illustrated how POPs monitoring, data interpretation and inventories are applied in national contexts.
The session forms part of the GEF-funded, UNEP-led Global Development, Review and Update of National Implementation Plans (NIPs) under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) project (GEF ID 10785), with GGKP leading knowledge dissemination and coordination to support Parties with accessible tools and resources.