UNEP Chemicals and Health Branch is implementing the second round GEF-funded POPs global monitoring plan projects (UNEP/GEF POPs GMP II) in 42 countries in Africa, Asia, Pacific Islands and Latin America and Caribbean regions from 2016 to present. The activities comprise capacity building for sampling and analysis of POPs in core matrices and others in the project countries, generation of comparable data on the presence of POPs, and securing of conditions for the sustainable monitoring of POPs.