The Special Programme provides support to developing countries and countries with economies in transition to enhance their sustainable institutional capacity to develop, adopt, monitor and enforce policy, legislation and regulation for effective frameworks for the implementation of the Instruments for the sound management of chemical and waste throughout their life cycle. This assessment reviews 11 closed projects from the second and third rounds of the Special Programme's Calls for Applications, which have recently completed implementation, to examine successes, areas for improvement, and progress made under the Core Indicators introduced by the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Strategy and Action Plan (MELSAP).