DEFENCE FOR CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL (DCI) - Belgium | Practical Guide G. EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF REPORTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS The efficiency of a monitoring body’s work can be assessed through an evaluation of the impact of its reports and recommendations overtime. In order to proceed to that assessment, the monitoring body should look at how reports and recommendations have been considered and effectively implemented, or not. However, it should also look at the different stages of its monitoring process in order to review and assess how efficiently they have been prepared, planned, performed and achieved so that the planned objectives and expected results have been met. The review of the methodology that has been chosen to perform the monitoring task can be done by answering the following questions: � What have we done? � What have we achieved? � How well have we done it? � What difference have we made? � How do we know? In turn, this ought to provide answers to the following questions: � What do we know now that we did not know before? � Are there any gaps or deficiencies in our monitoring process? � Were there any missed opportunities? � What could we do better? � How would it make a difference? APT – International Detention Coalition – UNHRC, “Monitoring Immigration Detention, Practical Guide”, page 83 90