More specifically, each of your draft reports for in-country reviews should not exceed 25-30 pages including a 2-3 page summary. However, for desk and centralized reviews, your reports should not exceed 10 pages, and a separate report is required for each Party being reviewed (i.e., up to 8 Parties). Because desk and dentralized reviews cannot focus on a single Party to the same degree as an in-Country review, they should instead focus on particular strengths and problems in each Party’s inventory submission.

The limit on pages for your final reports means that you will have to be very efficient in communicating your findings in writing. Again, you should remember that you and your team will be building upon the findings from earlier stages in the review process and upon annual reviews completed in previous years.

To help you in preparing your review reports, the Secretariat will provide you with a standard template for review reports. These templates will be specific to the review approach used (i.e., in-country, centralized, or desk) and contain clear instructions and guidance for drafting the report for each sector.

Your review reports should include a critical assessment of each Party’s inventory submission, but they should also provide constructive feedback. You should point out both the good and bad aspects of a Party’s submission and encourage it to make improvements. You should also be very specific in your findings and avoid broad generalizations. In other words, you should include the following in your review reports for each Party:

• Recommended “action items” for improvement. You should encourage each Party to be “honest” and transparent about the problems and weaknesses in its own inventory, especially in its discussions of uncertainty

• Praise for areas of excellent performance

• Identification of issues that future review teams should investigate

Again, this constructive feedback should focus on the 4 fundamentals: methods, data, national inventory process (institutional arrangements/system), and transparency (documentation).

Once you and your team have completed your draft review reports, they will be provided to each Party for comment (generally 4 weeks). Once comments are received by the Secretariat, you and your team will have between 3 to 6 weeks to finalize all of the reports (in-country: 3 weeks; centralized: 6 weeks; desk: 4 weeks).