Section three The NPM in 2016–17 • CJINI hosted a delegation from Lebanon’s Internal Security Force in March 2017, at which the CJINI’s inspection process was discussed, as well as its role in the NPM. This followed on from a visit of the Lebanese Inspectorate General in January 2016. • HIW and the CI continue to be members of European Partnership for Supervisory Organisations in Health Services and Social Care (EPSO). This group considers key issues such as restraints. • The IMB and HMI Prisons met with delegates from the South African Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services to discuss the unique challenges in managing lay monitors and prison inspection methodology. HMI Prisons subsequently participated in workshops with prison authorities and inspectors in Cape Town. • HMI Prisons hosted a delegation of prison staff from Kenya participating in a secondment in the UK organised by the African Prisons Project. • HMIPS provided a briefing to a Council of Europe delegation of prison and probation senior personnel and parliamentarians from Ukraine, discussing alternatives to custody, early release from prison and torture and ill-treatment prevention. • The NPM coordinator shared experience of multi-body NPMs with authorities involved in planning new NPMs in Australia and Indonesia. NPM self-assessment Each year, NPM members conduct a self‑assessment using methodology based on the SPT’s ‘analytical self-assessment tool for NPMs’. The tool allows NPMs to examine their effectiveness and efficiency.152 This is the fourth year in which the selfassessment has been carried out. Seventeen of the 21 NPM members completed the self‑assessment. A number of NPM members peer‑reviewed their responses with one another in order to share learning and receive constructive external review. General findings Members reported full compliance with 86.5% of the self-assessment questions, a slight increase on the 86% compliance reported in the previous year.153 This continues the upward trend in compliance from previous years, from 79.5% full compliance in 2013–14 and 82.8% full compliance in 2014–15. Reported non‑compliance fell from 1.8% in 2015–16 to 1.6% this year. The self-assessment responses were analysed in line with the three fundamental NPM powers set out in OPCAT Article 19, to: (a) examine the treatment of those deprived of their liberty; (b) make recommendations with the aim of improving their treatment and conditions; and (c) submit comments on existing and draft legislation. Table 4 shows the compliance NPM members reported with each of these powers. 152. The UK NPM’s self-assessment questionnaire can be found in Appendix 8 of the Fifth Annual Report, available at: https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/npm-prod-storage-19n0nag2nk8xk/uploads/2015/05/NPM-5th-AnnualReport-2013-14.pdf [accessed 21/08/17]. A full write-up of the self-assessment methodology is available at: https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/npm-prod-storage-19n0nag2nk8xk/uploads/2015/08/UK-NPM-self-assessmentwrite-up.pdf [accessed 21/08/17]. 153. The percentages reported in this section are calculated using the responses provided by the 17 members that completed the self-assessment (rather than on the basis of the 21 total members). 71