Illustration 1 Operational overview of trial-monitoring programme activities Internal Programme Activities External Programme Activities Supervisors Supervisors  Liasing with international and local partners  Advocacy/consultations with national officials  Public reporting to stakeholders  Ensuring access  Oversight of monitoring  Training of staff  Field support  Review of reporting Monitoring Team  Case reporting  Other feedback  Continued education and training Monitoring Team  Case identification  Review of court registries  Monitoring cases, attending hearings, and reviewing documents as required 4.2 Supervisory structure and responsibilities Supervisory responsibilities in a monitoring programme involve a wide range of activities. To ensure proper attention to all supervisory functions and responsibilities, these responsibilities also require a division of labour. Therefore, each programme should be structured with a programme co-ordinator or head of unit responsible for overall programme management and a legal analyst responsible for legal analysis and reporting. Such a structure allows a basic division of supervisory responsibilities as set forth in Chart 4. Chart 4 A useful division of supervisory-level responsibilities Management and advocacy responsibilities • Overall responsibility for programme implementation, including setting policies on focus and methodology, developing programme strategy, and approving the content of public reports; Analysis and reporting responsibilities • Regular review of case reports, substantive feedback to monitors on observation of trials and case reports; • Programme representation and advocacy, including • Synthesis and summary of case liaising with local and international partners, reports, including maintenance of communicating with stakeholders, lobbying, and statistical data; addressing the media; • Administrative and other management responsibilities, including overseeing personnel issues such as hiring, reviews, and payment (as applicable); • Legal research on domestic and international law; Trial-Monitoring: A Reference Manual for Practitioners 47