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periodic review recommendations. Technical advice will also be provided for defining the
methodology and timelines in that regard.
18.
Through the work of the human rights adviser recently deployed to Jamaica, support
will be provided for the drafting of a common core document, which will contribute to
increasing the capacity of Jamaica to meet its reporting obligations to international human
rights mechanisms as follow-up to universal periodic review recommendations. Support
will also be provided for creating a database on human rights recommendations in order to
increase the State capacity to follow up on the recommendations of all international human
rights mechanisms.
19.
In Kazakhstan, technical assistance will be provided to the Government to
implement the recommendations that were put forward during the second cycle of the
universal periodic review and in which developing and implementing a national action plan
on human rights and strengthening the capacity of the national preventative mechanism
were called for. Expert advice and guidance will be provided for the establishment of a
standing national coordinating mechanism to ensure integrated follow-up to
recommendations of human rights mechanisms.
20.
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia established the Inter-Sectoral Body on
Human Rights following its first universal periodic review. That body is composed of the
State secretaries of the key ministries and took the lead in coordinating follow-up to
recommendations emanating from the universal periodic review and those of the other
human rights mechanisms. Follow-up to the consultations on its second universal periodic
review pointed to the need for increased substantive and expert support to the body and for
increased capacity through the addition of an “expert advisory group”. Technical assistance
will be provided to contribute to increasing the capacity of the body and the expert group.
Various actions will be undertaken, including a study visit to other States in a similar
situation, “mentoring” from another State to follow up on improving the process and
capacities, training workshops (which will also reinforce the involvement of civil society
stakeholders) and seminars on examining recommendations and developing tools to
monitor follow-up to recommendations.
21.
In Malaysia, the Human Rights and Development Theme Group of the United
Nations country team has been engaging with the Government for the development of a
national action plan on the implementation of recommendations of the second-cycle
universal periodic review. In that regard, support will be provided to organize consultative
meetings between the Government and different stakeholders on the development of the
action plan. The National Human Rights Commission of Malaysia, part of the
Governmental Task Force on the development of the national human rights action plan,
intends to develop a database to track the implementation of the universal periodic review
recommendations, in consultation with the Government of Malaysia. Support will hence be
provided to Commission for developing such a database, which will be modelled on a good
practice example in the area from other countries.
22.
In Mali, technical assistance will be provided to strengthen the national follow-up
processes. Hence, assistance will specifically be aimed at: initiating a discussion on the
relevance of merging various interdepartmental committees that exist in the country;
supporting the Malian authorities in preparing an implementation action plan for universal
periodic review recommendations; and supporting the National Steering Committee
pending the merging of the various existing interdepartmental committees. A national
consultant will assist the authorities in drafting the action plan for the implementation of the
recommendations.
23.
Following a request from the Government of Mauritania for support in the
development and implementation of a strategy to follow up on the recommendations of the
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