Thanks to this project, it was also possible to start building a national monitoring network with the participation of regional guarantors with whom bilateral agreements were signed. In fact, return operations can originate from any detention centre and from any location in the country. This makes it necessary to build a network with the guarantor bodies present in the area to ensure widespread coverage of the National Guarantor. The regional guarantors that have joined the national monitoring network to date are 8: Lazio, Tuscany, Sicily, Apulia, Piedmont, Emilia-Romagna, Campania, Marche and the Turin Municipal Guarantor. After an initial period of support and thanks to specific training activities financed through the AMIF project, the regional Guarantors began to independently monitor forced return operations, especially in the delicate phase of pre-departure in the CPR premises. Finally, thanks to the AMIF project, it was possible to proceed to the revision and digitization of the aforementioned checklist, through a digital platform that will put in direct contact all the monitors involved and will allow the National Guarantor to coordinate operations, to collect, systematize and analyse the data produced during monitoring. From May 2016 to September 2019, 49 forced return operations were monitored limited to the international flight phase, of which 43 part of the AMIF Project. In particular, analysing the monitoring activity year by year, always taking into account only the flight phase, the increase in monitored operations is clearly evident: - 2016: 4 flight phases monitored (1 to Tunisia, 1 to Peru, 2 to Nigeria); - 2017: 7 flight phases monitored (3 to Nigeria, 4 to Tunisia); - 2018: 14 flight phases monitored (3 to Nigeria, 1 to Egypt, 10 to Tunisia); - 2019 (as of 30 September): 24 flight phases monitored (7 to Tunisia, 5 to Egypt, 5 to Nigeria, 2 to Morocco, 2 to Kosovo, 2 to Albania, 1 to Gambia). To these 21 pre-return or pre-departure phases monitored must be added, for a total of 67 forced return operations monitored by the National Guarantor since the start of the project to date (8 of which have been monitored in all their phases: pre-return, pre-departure and flight phases). 5 Report to Parliament: 2016, 2017, 2018, National Guarantor for the rights of persons detained or deprived of liberty. 5