The National Implementation Plan (NIP) proposal for fulfilling the requirements of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) for Egypt was prepared within the framework of the project “Enabling Activities to facilitate early action in the implementation of the Stockholm SC on POPs” under GEF Project GEF/EGY/02/22. UNIDO has been designated by the Council of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) as one of the executing agencies with expanded opportunities and has been executing the project to help in the enabling activities leading to country’s NIP.