This handbook provides information and monitoring tools to carry out community monitoring focused on collecting information on the situation at the local level on how pesticides are used and their impacts. And using the documentation from the monitoring for national and international advocacy. It outlines a monitoring and documenting approach, based on Community Pesticide Action Monitoring (CPAM). Elements of corporate
accountability has also been added to the tools/questionnaires as corporations are among the biggest violators of human rights. The handbook focuses on four international instruments:
(i) The Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade
(ii) The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
(iii) The International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management (The Code)
(iv) The Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM)
