A/HRC/41/42 (a) The 15-year review process of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, and other relevant reviews, should include an assessment of the essential role that the Special Rapporteur and other independent monitoring mechanisms play in implementing the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, and other agendas, with a view to strengthening their mandates, including through the allocation of sufficient time, as well as adequate financial and human resources; (b) States should connect the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and Sustainable Development Goal No. 5 with the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Declaration on the Elimination of violence against women and other regional instruments, including by developing indicators on target 5.2 of the Goals, on femicide rates, and on the number of shelters and protection orders; (c) The mandate of the Special Rapporteur and other relevant mechanisms should be integrated into the processes of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development and the universal periodic review. 97. With respect to the mandate of the Special Rapporteur, States, United Nations entities and other relevant stakeholders should: (a) Based on the analysis provided in the present report, allocate adequate human and financial resources to support the mandate of the Special Rapporteur in fully developing its potential, including through the implementation of the recommendations contained in the present report, and in order to allow the mandate holder to consult regularly with civil society organizations, national human rights institutions, equality bodies and other relevant stakeholders; (b) Establish cooperation between the United Nations trust fund in support of actions to eliminate violence against women and the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, in line with General Assembly resolution 50/166; (c) Facilitate collaboration between the Special Rapporteur and the mandate of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on sexual violence in armed conflict, as well as the Victims’ Rights Advocate; (d) Support thematic cooperation between the mandate of the Special Rapporteur and other relevant treaty bodies and special procedures; (e) Support cooperation between the Special Rapporteur and the Committee, in line with the framework of cooperation (see para. 77), on developing guidelines on the implementation of general recommendation No. 35. 98. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women should: (a) Establish a working group on violence against women in line with the framework of cooperation (ibid.) and increase the time allocated during Committee sessions to the issue of violence against women; (b) Adopt an optional protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women based on general recommendation No. 35; (c) Relocate one of its sessions to New York, in response to its 2000 decision on that issue, and provide for the reporting on that session to the Human Rights Council. 99. With respect to the Commission on the Status of Women, States, United Nations entities and other relevant stakeholders should: (a) Include violence against women as a standing item on the agenda and elaborate a global implementation plan to eliminate violence against women; (b) Introduce a constructive dialogue between the Special Rapporteur and the Commission during the oral presentation of the mandate holder. 19