A/HRC/19/31 E/CN.6/2012/12 UN-Women, in cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner will support follow-up to the Committee’s concluding observations and the implementation of the Convention and other human rights treaties and commitments, through the development and reform of constitutional, and legislative and policy frameworks. As mentioned above, cooperation between UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner will continue in the area of reparations for conflict-related sexual violence. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for example, the two entities will continue their work aimed at delivering reparations benefits to different communities, as a step leading towards the development of a national reparations programme. The two entities will ensure that truth commissions, commissions of inquiry and accountability mechanisms for violations of international law have the gender expertise necessary to fulfil their mandates through a coordinated approach. The Office of the High Commissioner, as a co-lead entity of the team of experts created pursuant to Security Council resolution 1888 (2009), will continue to cooperate with UN-Women in its field missions and will explore avenues for enhanced collaboration in the near future. Their collaboration in the field of gender integration will be strengthened within the framework of the System-wide Action Plan on gender equality and empowerment of women (SWAP) for which the Office of the High Commissioner has agreed to serve as a pilot during the initial phase of its development. 24. UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner will continue to pursue joint capacity development initiatives on improving States’ responses to violence against women, on intersectional discrimination and on the enjoyment of social, economic and cultural rights, in follow-up to the universal periodic review and reports by thematic special procedures. In El Salvador and the Dominican Republic, for example, UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner will advance regional initiatives designed to deepen the understanding of evolving forms of violence against women, to identify and document responses from the justice systems on such violence, and to design tools and methodological guides for investigating violence against women and combating impunity. The Office of the High Commissioner will continue to strengthen cooperation with UN-Women on joint activities designed to facilitate, implement and promote the SecretaryGeneral’s campaign “UNiTE to End Violence against Women”. Further, the Office of the High Commissioner will continue to work closely with UN-Women and the United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women, including on facilitating the Programme Appraisal Committee’s vision to strengthen reference to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence against Women and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, in the project review process. 25. In the context of the review of rule of law in peacebuilding, the Office of the High Commissioner will cooperate with UN-Women and other United Nations entities on the development of a guidance note for system-wide use on gender and the rule of law, a process led by UN-Women. UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner will continue and strengthen their cooperation in relation to women’s access to justice, including in connection with the proposed establishment of a task force on women’s access to justice of the Inter-agency Network on Women and Gender Equality, and on ensuring that a gender perspective is mainstreamed into all transitional justice measures supported by the United Nations. 11-63199 11

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