A/HRC/36/50/Add.1 94. The Special Rapporteur recommends that international supporters of transitional justice: (a) As a matter of strategy, provide for balanced, long-term funding to transitional justice and eschew unrealistic and short-term, project-oriented timelines, and ensure that funding strategies pay proportionate attention to civil society (and victim) roles in successful transitional justice initiatives; (b) Recognize the relevance of transitional justice to prevention of conflict, achieving sustainable peace, and Sustainable Development Goal 16, and integrate transitional justice into multilateral and bilateral frameworks touching on these issues. 95. The Special Rapporteur recommends that United Nations agencies: (a) Consolidate or harmonize rosters in the various agencies that work on transitional justice, including OHCHR, the Department of Political Affairs, UNDP, UN-Women, the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, UNICEF and others. Such rosters can be drawn upon to activate essential expertise in tight windows of opportunity. United Nations agencies should also ensure that roster members are properly vetted for technical expertise and contextual knowledge; (b) Take steps to strengthen organizational competence to deliver on transitional justice: United Nations agencies should develop joint strategies and strengthen both headquarter- and field-level mechanisms for coordination on transitional justice, for example, through the Global Focal Point for Police, Justice and Corrections; the Rule of Law Unit in the Executive Office of the SecretaryGeneral; field-based strategy sessions linked to the Human Rights Up Front initiative; or other relevant means. Inclusion of both levels is critical as each performs different functions within the system. Additionally, United Nations agencies should improve information sharing and develop a specific platform, with a dedicated owner, to actively facilitate it; and, finally, develop accountability mechanism to track implementation, follow-through on commitments, and outcomes; (c) In recognition of the relevance of transitional justice to prevention of conflict, achieving sustainable peace and Sustainable Development Goal 16, take the opportunity presented by initiatives relating to these issues to integrate transitional justice into the relevant policy frameworks. 96. The Special Rapporteur addresses the following recommendations to intergovernmental bodies: (a) The universal periodic review processes in the Human Rights Council afford greater possibilities to encourage countries to adopt transitional justice and to mobilize the needed resources (technical and financial) from other countries for implementing it. Given the affinities between transitional justice and preventive strategies in general, this could be done as part of the proposal by the SecretaryGeneral to include support for prevention strategies as part of universal periodic review discussions; (b) Reference to transitional justice in Security Council mandates should be informed by contextual and political analysis and, in particular, the institutional preconditions for successful implementation of complex transitional justice engagements; (c) Decisions to include transitional justice as part of Security Council mandates should be linked to clear and robust financing mechanisms; (d) An informal experts group on transitional justice should be established to strengthen information flows to Security Council members from human rights mandates holders, human rights bodies, civil society and other relevant actors. 20

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