This report presents the results of the first monitoring round of the implementation of the Santiago de Compostela Convention, focusing on prevention and awareness mechanisms to counter trafficking in human organs. 

Covering 14 Parties, the executive summary highlights the main findings concerning preventive measures and the reporting of trafficking in human organs, data collection and information-sharing systems, training and awareness-raising frameworks, as well as audit and oversight mechanisms of transplantation systems. Despite generally well-developed legal frameworks and inspection systems in place in most States, significant shortcomings persist, in particular the absence of structured and specific training, insufficient use of evaluation mechanisms, limited involvement of civil society, and the lack of targeted measures addressing media actors and digital platforms. The report also underlines disparities in data collection and analysis systems depending on national organisational structures, as well as uneven approaches to public awareness-raising. It calls for a coordinated strengthening of prevention, training and awareness-raising mechanisms, improved information-sharing between competent authorities, and enhanced cooperation between institutional actors, health professionals and civil society in order to ensure the effective implementation of the Convention.