A/HRC/31/3 with activating the multinational joint task force mandated by the African Union Peace and the Security Council to support regional efforts to combat Boko Haram. 90. OHCHR also provided advice to United Nations missions and country teams, including in Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Somalia, on the implementation of the human rights due diligence policy. 2. Rapid response and early warning 91. OHCHR continued to respond to emerging and ongoing crises and deployed teams to assess the human rights situation in Cameroon, the Niger and Nigeria in the context of Boko Haram operations; in the Republic of Moldova, in relation to political instability; in Guatemala and Guinea in the context of elections; and at the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti to monitor the treatment of people of Haitian origin expelled from the Dominican Republic. Owing to financial constraints, the OHCHR contingency fund and rapid deployment roster used for such missions are overstretched. OHCHR monitored the increasing violence and unrest across the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, starting at the end of September 2015. 92. OHCHR remained fully involved in the implementation of the Human Rights Up Front initiative, including by providing support and advice both at headquarters and in the field to United Nations partners. OHCHR coordinated the development of the mandatory online course on United Nations human rights responsibilities for all United Nations staff, which was launched on Human Rights Day 2015. 93. Management of information on violations of human rights and broader threats to populations remained critical to the effective implementation of the initiative and to ensuring adequate and timely analysis and response. To that end, OHCHR led an interagency task force that put forward options for the establishment of a common United Nations human rights information management system. The Office contributed to defining new headquarters coordination and early warning mechanisms. OHCHR regularly provided country specific human rights and early warning analysis to United Nations system entities and a series of country notes were shared with resident coordinators to guide country-level strategies. 94. OHCHR mad greater use of other information sources. For example, it concluded a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research Operational Satellite Applications Programme with the aim of expanding its use of satellite imagery to verify human rights information. 95. At the country level, the Human Rights Up Front initiative resulted in enhanced mainstreaming of human rights into United Nations responses by bringing human rights analysis into development assistance frameworks, enabling improved strategies and operating procedures to address human rights risks, drawing attention to long-standing human rights concerns and strengthening human rights advocacy. OHCHR worked with partners, notably the Department of Political Affairs, on a concept for the rapid deployment of multidisciplinary teams to countries where crises may emerge. The first of these teams were deployed during the last quarter of 2015, in Burkina Faso and Lesotho. 96. OHCHR pursued efforts to professionalize human rights monitoring and investigation through the development and update of guidance tools, such as its glossary of violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law and new chapters of its manual on human rights monitoring. In 2015, OHCHR initiated a review of its casualty recording methodology with a view to improving existing practices. It provided guidance, training, advice and lessons learned exercises to commissions of inquiry, factfinding missions and ad hoc OHCHR deployments. Remote training was expanded and tested when the security situation did not allow for on-site training for staff, namely in 15

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