3 RECOMMENDATIONS AND WAYS TO OVERCOME SHORTFALLS IN PROTECTION The findings in Part 2 to this report highlight key areas of change that are imperative in order to guarantee the early identification of VoTs within asylum procedures. In addition, there is a need to ensure that MLRs are more widely used and accepted as an important evidential tool in the asylum process. This chapter of the report outlines the IRCT’s recommendations for change, based on the key findings from the empirical research, and taking into account the participating centres’ own recommendations for change in the specific national context (see Annex 1). In addition, the findings and recommendations underline the obvious shortfalls in the current status with regard to the early identification and treatment of VoTs within national asylum procedures. Therefore, this chapter also considers in more detail some of the critical gaps in the protection offered to VoTs and highlights positive examples where progress is being made to strengthen the safeguards afforded to VoTs in national asylum procedures. 54 / Recognising victims of torture in national asylum procedures