Online reporting platform (FCTCData) User Manual

Overview

The Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (Convention Secretariat) has been collecting data on the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) since 2006, and on the implementation of the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products (Protocol) since 2020. Such data has been collected through the same reporting platform for both treaties.

The Conference of the Parties (COP) to the WHO FCTC and the Meeting of the Parties (MOP) to the Protocol accepted the review of the reporting system used until 2023, and the proposals to improve it. The Convention Secretariat has developed a web-based reporting platform to collect data from the Parties to both treaties, respectively (hereafter named FCTCData), as it contains the new revised reporting instruments.

This User Manual provides instructions for using the FCTCData online reporting platform to complete the WHO FCTC and Protocol reporting instruments.

The FCTCData is intended to improve the existing reporting system established for data collection on the progress in implementation of the treaties, as well as to provide additional features and functionalities to ease and expedite the collection, analysis and publication of the collected data, maximizing the quality of such information to inform decision-making.