Long term success - Outreach
Data dissemination is a key step in helping stakeholders to access and use PRTR data; however, additional outreach may be needed to:
- Make the public aware that the PRTR is available for their use;
- Help stakeholders understand how to use and interpret PRTR data;
- Build and maintain user community relations; and
- Collaborate with other PRTRs.
For a cost-effective management scheme, you may wish to implement the next element (Monitoring and Improving the PRTR System) or choose another element from the Management scheme elements list.
Relevant tools
Below is a list of tools relevant for implementing this topic :
- OECD: Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTRs): A Tool for Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development - Guidance Manual for Governments (1996)
- OECD: Guidance on Elements of a PRTR: Part 2 (Not Yet Available)
- OECD: Presentation and Dissemination of PRTR Data: Practices and Experiences - Getting the Words and Numbers Out (2000)
- OECD: Application, Use and Presentation of Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTR) Data (2013)
- UNITAR, UNEP, and GEF: Final Meeting of the Steering Committee for the GEF Medium-sized project on “POPs Monitoring, Reporting and Information Dissemination using Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTRs)” (2012)