A/HRC/38/40 D. Enhanced outreach to the media and society for greater visibility of the mandate, in order to strengthen and promote international solidarity 26. The Independent Expert believes in the importance of greater media and societal awareness and visibility for the mandate, given the importance of international solidarity in the fulfilment of human rights. As such, while being mindful of the need for special procedure mandate holders to be independent, the Independent Expert intends to reach out in as constructive a way as possible to high-profile persons, media organizations and other relevant stakeholders, with a view to leveraging their high visibility to achieve greater awareness and visibility for the pressing issue of the inadequacy of expressions of human rights-based international solidarity. He hopes that such outreach will help create a more supportive global sociopolitical environment within which the key goals of the mandate can be pursued. E. Greater engagement with other United Nations bodies and other international institutions 27. The Independent Expert is mindful that Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/55 requires him to take into account the outcomes of all major United Nations and other global summits and ministerial meetings and to seek views and contributions from United Nations agencies and other relevant international organizations in the execution of his mandate. 28. The Independent Expert has therefore prioritized an even greater degree of engagement with international institutions in his work plan. In that context, the Independent Expert met with relevant officials of the United Nations Development Programme in October 2017 in New York and of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in November 2017 in Geneva, and participated in the preparatory (stocktaking) meeting of the intergovernmental conference to adopt the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration, in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico in December 2017. F. Continued engagement with civil society 29. The Independent Expert considers engagement with civil society, as advocates of social change, to be crucial to the effective execution of his mandate. As such, he intends to undertake even more robust engagement with both international and local civil society groups both within and beyond the framework of his country visits and his visits to the Human Rights Council in Geneva and the General Assembly in New York. Indeed, while he was in New York in October 2017 to address the General Assembly and during his visit to Geneva in November 2017 to attend the induction course for newly appointed special procedure mandate holders, he met and had fruitful exchanges with several representatives of civil society. G. Enhanced coordination with other special procedure mandate holders 30. The Independent Expert recognizes the interconnectedness between his mandate and the mandates of other special procedures. While mindful of the importance of preserving the independence and the scope of his mandate, the Independent Expert has engaged and worked with the other mandate holders, especially those whose responsibilities relate closely to the thematic priorities discussed in section V of the present report. He intends to continue to do so. The engagement envisaged would be aimed at identifying possible areas of cooperation between the Independent Expert and the other mandate holders, to add value to each other’s work. 8