impact of reports, as well as the visibility of both organizations. In addition, they demonstrate a sense of partnership and commitment in connection with the subject matter of the report that gives additional weight to the recommendations. In the OSCE context, project monitoring programmes, such as those in Central Asia and Moldova, aim to issue joint reports with their implementing partners, including international and national NGOs. Such reports are produced with the input of the implementing partner, thereby benefiting from local perspective. Upon issuance, such reports are also positioned to be more widely distributed through the networks of the involved organizations, thereby increasing the audience of the report, as well as the visibility of all partners. A second variety of joint report is issued with a national institution or authority. By issuing reports with a national authority, a report assumes the added impact that derives from official state approval. Further, state approval not only extends to findings, but also to the viewpoints expressed and recommendations made in the report. Such joint reporting may have a powerful effect on local authorities and actors who then cannot ignore monitoring results after official government bodies have sanctioned findings and expressed a commitment to reform. Within the OSCE context, one field operation has succeeded in having reports issued with local authorities on several occasions. Trial-monitoring by the OSCE Mission to Croatia: war-crimes reports issued together with the Ministry of Justice Between 2003 and 2006, two of the various comprehensive war-crimes reports published by the OSCE Mission to Croatia were issued jointly with the Ministry of Justice of Croatia.* At that time, the joint reports were prepared in full by the Rule of Law Section based on the mission’s monitoring, before being provided to the Ministry of Justice for review. After comment by, and discussion with, the Ministry, the reports were published and a joint press conference was held to announce the report and recommendations. According to the experience of the Mission, the joint issuance of the reports added to the credibility of the reports among the state authorities, including prosecutors and the judiciary. In turn, this increased the impact of the findings and awareness of international fair-trial standards among local courts. Conversely, joint issuance of reports also benefits the host state in that it is seen to be making reform necessary for EU succession. * Reports issued by the OSCE Mission to Croatia after 2006 were issued by the Mission only, and not jointly with the Ministry of Justice. 9.4 Roundtable events Roundtable events following the publication of reports have been used extensively as a mechanism to further expand the reach of reports, as well as to organize a process to implement recommendations. Roundtables organized among a wide range of stakeholders provide actors with information, a forum for discussion, and bring together different institutional and individual perspectives. Organizing roundtables around the findings of the report provides the benefit of a solid foundation of fact to discuss the current situation and from which to begin discussion about reforms. In the OSCE, roundtables have been organized at all levels of the justice system from among judges in Trial-Monitoring: A Reference Manual for Practitioners 119