A/HRC/34/3 93. At the country level, OHCHR continued to integrate human rights into the overall efforts of protection clusters, humanitarian country teams and humanitarian coordinators. The Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights participated in the annual humanitarian coordinators retreat, and OHCHR maintained deployment of three staff members to advise the regional and country-level humanitarian leadership in relation to the crisis in the Syrian Arab Republic. OHCHR is a member of the humanitarian country team in Ukraine; continued to lead the protection cluster in the State of Palestine; and participated in the work of protection clusters or working groups in El Salvador, Haiti, Iraq, Myanmar, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Ukraine and Yemen, as well as in the Pacific region. The Office also provided support to national partners in the context of humanitarian action, for example the Direction de la protection civile in Haiti, and promoted the involvement of human rights defenders in humanitarian action. During the reporting period, the Central Emergency Response Fund supported OHCHR engagement in Burundi. III. Management and administration 94. The High Commissioner’s organizational change initiative, detailed in the report of the Secretary-General on the proposed regional restructuring of OHCHR (A/71/218 and Corr.1), aims at improving the effectiveness and efficiency with which OHCHR carries out the mandate contained in General Assembly resolution 48/141 and in implementing programme 20 (Human rights) of the biennial programme plan. The initiative would bring OHCHR closer to Member States and other regional and national stakeholders by strengthening six existing OHCHR regional offices and establishing two new regional offices, one for Eastern Europe and Central Asia and another for North America and the English-speaking Caribbean. A number of functions currently performed at headquarters will move to the regional level. 95. Following discussions at its seventy-first session, the General Assembly has deferred consideration of the report on the proposed regional restructuring of OHCHR to the main part of its seventy-second session. If approved, the initiative will be implemented within existing resources, as changes will be funded by savings from the move of posts and related resources, both regular budget and extrabudgetary, to lower-cost duty stations. Additional savings from salaries and travel will be reallocated to further increase technical cooperation activities. IV. Conclusions 96. Confronted by chronic and emerging challenges, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and his Office have reinforced the fundamental role of human rights at the core of responses to global crises. During the reporting period, OHCHR worked towards building common approaches grounded in international human rights principles with partners at all levels, to ensure sustainable protection for rights holders worldwide, including in the contexts of conflict, migration and development. As noted in the present report and previous reports of the High Commissioner to the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly, OHCHR requires adequate resources to fulfil its mandate as well as the expectations of Member States and other stakeholders. 97. Important milestones were celebrated during the reporting period, including the fiftieth anniversary of the International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; the tenth anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; the thirtieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development; and the tenth anniversary of the Human 17