Part IV Communicating findings There is a broad range of follow up activities that NHRIs can carry out after publishing a monitoring report to engage these various mechanisms, including: • Organizing workshops and seminars to share the report and accompanying materials with affected communities • Distributing the report to relevant government agencies and other concerned actors • Organizing roundtables to initiate a dialogue with relevant government actors to discuss the report’s recommendations and their implementation of the recommendations • Tabling the report in parliament (this is often a statutory requirement NHRIs) and participating in the public debate through the media and in other forums • Organizing advocacy and media campaigns at the national level (e.g. with journalists, various ministries, civil society organizations, other policymakers) for implementation of the report’s relevant recommendations • Undertaking advocacy, both regionally and internationally, for implementation of the report’s recommendations • Based on the report’s conclusions and with the concerned communities’ support, assessing the possibility of taking legal action to obtain reparation or to ensure that those responsible for the violations are brought before the courts • Exploring other ways to lobby and pressure various stakeholders beyond the State (i.e. highlighting the role of development banks in financing investment projects, national contact point of the OECD, and making contact with the World Bank) • Continuously monitoring the implementation of recommendations; for example, reporting on progress – or the lack of progress – in future annual reports. These activities are part of a longer-term process. As such, a separate action plan should be developed for each activity. It is clearly not possible to do everything so it will be necessary to choose from the follow-up actions described above, based on your specific context and advocacy goals. The decisions, requests and wishes of the affected communities, as well as the general condition of each situation (the failure or success of your dialogue with relevant stakeholders, for example), will also help determine what follow up actions to prioritize. Photo by Mik Efford, reproduced under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. Chapter 16: Reporting, advocacy and follow up | 159