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The document provides an up-to-date recommendations made to WHO by the experts of WHO consultations on discriminating concentrations of insecticides for monitoring resistance in adult mosquito vectors. It is an outcome of a WHO multi-centre study (2017–2021) performed by 23 laboratories in different regions and the WHO expert consultations that made recommendations to WHO on insecticide discriminating concentrations for monitoring resistance in Anopheles and Aedes spp. The document describes a new WHO bottle bioassay method for testing susceptibility of mosquitoes to insecticides that are not suitable for impregnation on filter papers and makes recommendations for future scientific research on development of methods and procedures for testing resistance against insecticides with new, novel or distinct modes of action. Making use of the recommendations made to WHO by the experts, WHO will soon update current WHO test methods and procedures and publish standard operating procedures for testing insecticide resistance in mosquitoes, which in turn will be useful to the national vector-borne disease control programmes, in particular the entomological surveillance units, and the research community for monitoring insecticide resistance in field populations of mosquito vectors of disease. The document will also be useful to academia, the pesticide regulatory agencies and the pesticide industry for further innovation in this area and to address the research questions.