A/HRC/4/94 page 8 27. Such a seminar took place during the twenty-fifth session of the Board of Trustees, on 9 and 10 November. The seminar represented the first opportunity for some of the key actors to gather together for a focused discussion. In addition to all the members of the Board, treaty body members from the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the Committee against Torture and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, as well as representatives from the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the International Labour Organization (ILO), UNAIDS, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank, and OHCHR staff from the field participated actively in the discussion. 28. Colleagues from specialized agencies and programmes shared their various experiences in relation to the different aspects of treaty body work, in particular the formulation and implementation of treaty body recommendations. Several OHCHR field case studies from different regions were presented. It was clearly demonstrated that the quality of recommendations made by treaty bodies was directly linked to the input received from actors at the national level. In addition to reports from Governments, contributions from national NGOs, OHCHR field presences where they existed, and United Nations agencies and programmes were essential to assist treaty bodies to make relevant and constructively critical commentaries. Such contributions from the field could be made even more systematic. 29. Furthermore, OHCHR had an important role in providing training, awareness-raising and other capacity-building activities for a range of concerned actors at the national level, including parliaments, which performed a key function regarding the implementation of recommendations of United Nations treaty bodies. Some countries now had a large body of recommendations before them awaiting implementation. OHCHR, working together with NGOs and United Nations country teams, should help process the recommendations in order to facilitate their implementation based on clearly identified priorities. There was also a need to make United Nations human rights treaty body work better known to the general public in many countries. Country visits by treaty body members, when they took place, were considered useful in raising the awareness of treaty body work at the national level as well as in enabling treaty bodies to raise the most relevant questions. 30. As United Nations expert bodies, human rights treaty bodies brought legitimacy and weight at the national level. The output of treaty body work served as a valuable framework and as entry points for OHCHR engagement with countries. It also served as a useful tool for United Nations agencies and programmes in furthering countries’ development objectives. Concluding observations and recommendations of human rights treaty bodies should be systematically considered and integrated into analyses by United Nations agencies and programmes when establishing policy and programmatic strategies. 31. Participants at the seminar welcomed the opportunity for a focused discussion among relevant partners. They considered that further follow-up meetings, involving government representatives, would be most useful.