A/HRC/43/3 of) and Zambia, as well as through a regional event for 12 States from Asia hosted in Thailand. Other support included rolling out the national recommendations tracking database in Botswana, Guatemala, Honduras, Mauritius, Mongolia, Montenegro, the State of Palestine, Saudi Arabia and Sierra Leone. OHCHR also trained United Nations resident coordinators and country teams in the Balkans and East Africa on how to engage with and follow up on the recommendations of international human rights mechanisms. 14. The treaty body capacity-building programme enabled OHCHR to develop training materials, provide national and regional training to strengthen the capacities of States and civil society to implement the recommendations of human rights mechanisms, further upgrade the Universal Human Rights Index and roll out the generic national recommendations tracking database. 15. Through the OHCHR-administered voluntary fund for financial and technical assistance in the implementation of the universal periodic review, OHCHR provided assistance to States, including through a regional consultation in Panama in September on good practices in the universal periodic review process, follow-up and synergies with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. 6. Humanitarian funds 16. In 2019, the United Nations voluntary trust fund on contemporary forms of slavery and the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture, both administered by OHCHR, awarded grants to support redress and rehabilitation for about 8,600 victims of contemporary forms of slavery in 25 States and for about 36,000 victims of torture in 77 States. The Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture also issued emergency grants to respond to cases occurring in the context of human rights and humanitarian crises. In 2019, the Special Fund established by the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment supported 13 prevention projects in 12 States parties. B. Development 1. 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals 17. To help promote a rights-based implementation of the 2030 Agenda, OHCHR increased its support to States, United Nations resident coordinators and country teams, civil society and other stakeholders in a broad range of countries, including Argentina, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti, Lesotho, Liberia, Malaysia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Africa, Ukraine, Uruguay, Timor-Leste, Tunisia, Uganda and Zimbabwe. That included assistance to countries preparing for voluntary national reviews of the high-level political forum on sustainable development. 18. OHCHR continued to promote a human rights-based approach to data5 to ensure that no one was left behind in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, providing technical support and capacity-building in Albania, Kenya, Kosovo, 6 Pakistan, the Russian Federation, South Africa, Uganda and the United Kingdom. OHCHR also populated indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals under OHCHR international custodianship7 and contributed to the first handbook developed under the auspices of the Statistical Commission to measure governance and human rights progress, including on the basis of such indicators. 8 In collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, OHCHR developed a common survey module to support countries in the collection of data for the indicators for Goal 16 of the Sustainable Development Goals, including indicator 10.3.1/16.b.1, which measures discrimination. 5 6 7 8 4 See www.ohchr.org/HRBAD. References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999). Notably, indicators 16.1.2, 16.10.1, 16.a.1 and 10.3.1/16.b.1. See www.ine.cv/praiagroup/#home.