A/HRC/36/24 I. Introduction 1. In its resolution 59/113A, the General Assembly proclaimed the World Programme for Human Rights Education as a global initiative to advance the implementation of human rights education programmes in all sectors. The World Programme is structured in consecutive phases, with each phase focusing on specific sectors. The first phase (20052009) focused on integrating human rights education in primary and secondary school systems, and the second phase (2010-2014) on human rights education in higher education and human rights training for teachers, educators, civil servants, law enforcement officials and military personnel. Evaluations of the first and second phases were conducted in 2010 and 2015, respectively. 2. In its resolution 24/15, the Human Rights Council decided to focus the third phase (2015-2019) of the World Programme on strengthening implementation of the first two phases and promoting human rights training for media professionals and journalists. It requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to prepare a related plan of action (A/HRC/27/28), which contains practical guidance for national implementation. In its resolution 27/12, the Human Rights Council adopted the plan of action, encouraged States to implement it and requested OHCHR to submit to its thirty-sixth session a midterm progress report on the implementation of the third phase. 3. In January and February 2017 respectively, OHCHR sent notes verbales to States and letters to national human rights institutions inviting them to submit relevant information. By 18 May 2017, 20 Governments and 18 national human rights institutions from 36 countries had responded (see annex). 1 4. The present report provides an overview of reported national action undertaken as of January 2015. It is organized according to the structure of the plan of action for the third phase of the World Programme: the first part presents action undertaken to strengthen implementation of human rights education and training in the focus sectors of the first two phases and the second part highlights action taken to promote human rights training for media professionals and journalists. Finally, conclusions for further implementation are set out. II. Action at the national level to strengthen implementation of the first two phases of the World Programme A. National strategies and plans of action 5. A number of States reported on their overall strategies or plans of action for human rights education. The politica plurinacional de derechos humanos 2015-2020 in the Plurinational State of Bolivia was built on the achievements of the plan plurinacional de educación en derechos humanos 2009-2013, developed by the Ministry of Education in coordination with the Ministry of Justice and the Defensor del Pueblo and with technical support from OHCHR. In Finland, the 2017 national action plan on fundamental and human rights, whose drafting benefited from the advice of the Finnish Human Rights Centre, included a section on human rights education as one of four main topics. Italy highlighted a national plan of action, approved by presidential decree in 2016, addressing children’s rights and aimed at improving the quality of education and teacher training. Namibia reported that the 2015-2016 implementation framework of the national human rights action plan included activities designed to integrate human rights into all levels of education. 1 2 Submissions will be available on the OHCHR website at www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Education/Training/WPHRE/ThirdPhase/Pages/ProgressReport3rdPhase.a spx.