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Trial Monitoring: A Reference Manual for Practitioners, Revised edition 2012

Front cover of Trial Monitoring: A Reference Manual for Practitioners, Revised edition 2012 (OSCE)
Front cover of Trial Monitoring: A Reference Manual for Practitioners, Revised edition 2012 (OSCE)
26 September 2012

Contents

List of acronyms
Foreword
Introduction

Part I: General Overview and Operational Aspects of Trial Monitoring
Chapter 1: Trial Monitoring: Purposes and Basic Principles

Part II: First Steps and Initial Considerations in Establishing a Trial-Monitoring Programme
Chapter 2: Conducting a Preliminary Assessment
Chapter 3: Choosing an Institutional Model
Chapter 4: Access to Court Proceedings and Other Access Issues
Chapter 5: Establishment of an Information-Management System

Part III: Systemic Trial Monitoring
Chapter 6: Main Aims, Outputs and Methods of Systemic Trial Monitoring
Chapter 7: Programme Structure And Staffing Issues
Chapter 8: Conduct and Capacity-Building of Trial-Monitoring Staff
Chapter 9: Information Gathering and Verification in Systemic Trial Monitoring
Chapter 10: Analysis Of Trial-Monitoring Findings
Chapter 11: Internal Reporting Systems
Chapter 12: Advocacy Strategies
Chapter 13: Measuring the Impact of Systemic Trial-Monitoring Activities
Chapter 14: Phasing Out and Sustainability of Systemic Trial-Monitoring Programmes

Part IV: Thematic Trial Monitoring
Chapter 15: Main Aims, Outputs and Methods of Thematic Trial Monitoring
Chapter 16: Main Themes Encountered in Trial-Monitoring Programmes

Part V: Ad Hoc Trial Monitoring
Chapter 17: Mandate, Principles and Aims of Ad Hoc Trial Monitoring
Chapter 18: First Steps and Initial Considerations in Establishing an Ad Hoc Trial-Monitoring Programme
Chapter 19: Operational Aspects of Ad Hoc Trial-Monitoring Projects
Chapter 20: Ad Hoc Project Monitoring Cycle

Annexes
Annex I: Code Of Conduct and Other Guidelines for Monitors
Annex II: Monitoring Court Proceedings – Issues and Sample Forms
Annex III: Conducting Interviews – Issues and Sample Forms
Annex IV: Reporting – Sample Forms
Annex V: Administrative Matters
Annex VI: Examples of OSCE Thematic Area Reports
Annex VII: Trial-Monitoring Programme Summaries of OSCE Field Operations
Annex VIII: Sources for Substantive Principles on Trial Monitoring

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