of the year. It may even be desirable to begin earlier if the findings and recommendations are to be part of a successor plan. An effective monitoring process will require the allocation of some resources for personnel and for the publication and dissemination of the final report. 12.2 Initiation of successor plans This Handbook has recommended that the initial national action plan should lead to a series of successor plans. In this way, work on human rights will be conducted in a manner similar to that of other areas of government activity, with a comparably serious approach to the allocation of resources and to accountability. As one national human rights action plan draws to an end, another will take its place, just as with economic plans. The successor plan will be based to a considerable degree on the overall evaluation of the previous plan. Without detracting from the independence of the evaluation process, the conclusion of one plan and the elaboration of the next should therefore be integrated as far as possible. The evaluation will feed into the development of the next plan by identifying areas where further action needs to be taken. The process of developing a successor plan should be similar to that for the original plan. With structures and procedures already in place, a successor plan will be easier to develop. However, a special effort will be needed to ensure that the new plan has a similar impact and attracts similar attention. While the aim should be to bring human rights work into the mainstream of government activity, any suggestion of overfamiliarity and staleness should be avoided by ensuring that, as before, the process of developing and implementing the plan includes the full range of human rights NGOs, community organizations, national institutions and other non-governmental actors. The successor plan should involve government to the same extent as the original. It should be launched with a similar impact, supported by similar media and dissemination programmes, and implemented with the same energy. In this way, the process of renewing the national action plan should itself reinvigorate the commitment of all stakeholders to the promotion of human rights and enhance the dissemination of information about human rights. 99