A/HRC/31/78 As a result, for the first time in two decades, the country is capable of dealing with the challenges that it must overcome in order to further its economic and human development. The main such challenges are to consolidate the national reconciliation process on the basis of an even-handed administration of justice and to maintain peace and security. The objective of the observations and recommendations made by the Independent Expert, the Human Rights Council in the course of the universal periodic review and the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations is to accompany the country along that path. This necessarily entails the country’s fulfilment of its international human rights commitments. The recent adoption of a strategy for monitoring the action taken pursuant to those recommendations is an encouraging sign, and the progress made and the results achieved under that strategy will be followed with interest. B. Recommendations 85. The Independent Expert recommends that the Ivorian authorities take the following actions in order to strengthen the rule of law: (a) Continue with the national dialogue with a view to including all political schools of thought as fully as possible in the democratic process; (b) Build the capacity of the Independent Electoral Commission so that it is in the best possible position to organize the forthcoming legislative and local elections; (c) Take advantage of the planned constitutional reform effort to consolidate the rule of law by, inter alia, strengthening the independence of the judiciary and raising the National Human Rights Commission of Côte d’Ivoire to the rank of an independent constitutional institution endowed with the necessary means to fulfil its mission. 86. The Independent Expert recommends that the Ivorian authorities take the following actions in order to reinforce the reconciliation process: (a) Draw all the useful conclusions possible from the presidential election results and utilize them to consolidate the reconciliation process; (b) Make the report and recommendations of the Dialogue, Truth and Reconciliation Commission public as a means of reinforcing the reconciliation process; (c) Continue to strike a balance in terms of the prosecution of members of the two camps who are believed to have committed human rights violations with a view to providing the most effective means possible of healing the wounds caused by the series of crises that have occurred in the country since 19 September 2002; (d) Continue to build the capacity of the justice system so that the investigations can proceed at a good pace and trials can take place w ithin a reasonable time period; (e) Build the material and human capacity of the office in charge of conducting exhumations; (f) Adopt and promulgate a law which defines the concept of a victim of the post-election violence and the concept of redress and a law on witness and victim protection; (g) Clarify how the roles of the National Commission on Reconciliation and Compensation for Victims and of the National Programme for Social GE.16-00901 21/23