Remember, you don’t need to make big changes to have an impact. You can improve your impact assessment approach and/or your activities by small tweaks in different areas. Where big improvements are needed, you might need to put some thought into how these are presented so that they are easily understood. For example, for each recommended improvement, you could write a short statement explaining the rationale behind it. 

Prioritising your recommendations

You might have a big list or you might only have a couple of action areas. Either way, we recommend that you prioritise the improvements, and in doing so, carefully think about which resources should be directed to which improvements first.

Checklist

• You have documented your write-up and recommendations so you can come back to these at a later date.

• Each recommended improvement can be clearly explained and linked back to the data and analysis.

• You have completed your write-up and analysis.

• You have drafted recommendations.

• You know what to improve in your next impact assessment.