A/HRC/10/54 page 17 B. Treaty bodies 70. As an ongoing activity, OHCHR has systematically engaged with treaty body members by providing expert analyses concerning national human rights institutions and their related activities. In 2008, several institutions made statements and provided reports to treaty bodies in relation to the consideration of reports submitted by their respective countries. 71. OHCHR prepares and regularly updates a compilation of all treaty body concluding observations and recommendations that relate to national human rights institutions (www.nhri.net) and systematically sends concluding observations to the institutions of the countries concerned, following their adoption. OHCHR also encourages institutions to participate in treaty body sessions and the strengthening procedures for their interaction, including by providing information on the list of issues, contributing to the sessions and in the follow-up to concluding observations. 72. In February 2008, OHCHR organized the East African subregional workshop on reporting practices to United Nations treaty bodies. National human rights institutions as well as government representatives from Burundi, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia, the Sudan, Rwanda, the United Republic of Tanzania and Uganda participated. One session focused on the role of the said institutions in treaty body reporting. 73. On 19 May 2008, OHCHR, in collaboration with the Iberoamerican Federation of Ombudsmen and the University of Alcala, held a workshop on the role of national human rights institutions in the protection of economic, social and cultural rights during the session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Their role in the promotion of the justiciability of economic, social and cultural rights was discussed in this context, with institutions from Spanish-speaking countries participating. 74. A meeting of chairpersons of human rights treaty bodies was held from 23 to 25 June 2008. The National Institutions Unit gave a written update of the developments regarding interaction between national human rights institutions and treaty bodies and shared a table of good practices in this area. 75. Since 2003, OHCHR has been involved in the European Union-funded project entitled “Strengthening the implementation of human rights treaty recommendations through the enhancement of national protection mechanisms”, which aims at improving the implementation of conclusions and recommendations of human rights treaty bodies at the national level by the strengthening of the capacity of national human rights institutions, non-governmental organizations and the media. Activities are designed to enhance their participation in the reporting process and to encourage the use of international human rights instruments and treaty body recommendations in their respective areas of work to further the promotion and protection of human rights. A regional workshop was held in Panama from 27 to 29 August 2008 with participants from Argentina, Columbia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico and Panama. National workshops were held in Morocco and Indonesia in December 2008.