A/HRC/7/58 page 16 during his visit, they organized meetings with the Ministry of Health, WHO and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency to review progress made since the previous visit of the Special Rapporteur in 2005. 52. Field presences also provided support to the monitoring mechanisms of United Nations human rights treaty bodies. In Colombia, the field presence is providing technical advice to the Government, civil society and the United Nations system regarding the follow-up to the recommendations made by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the mandate-holders of the special procedures with regard to economic, social and cultural rights. In Uganda, the field presence is engaging national experts to support the Government’s preparation of a State party report to the Committee. The field presence in Nepal provided input to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights upon the request of the Committee. The field presence in Sierra Leone is assisting that country’s Government to comply with its reporting obligations to international treaty monitoring bodies, including the Committee, through capacity-building and technical advice. The OHCHR Regional Office for Central Asia, jointly with the Committee, organized a regional workshop on follow-up to the Committee’s concluding observations. 53. Using the conceptual and methodological framework outlined in 2006 on indicators for monitoring compliance with international human rights instruments (HRI/MC/2006/7), lists of indicators on the right to adequate food, health, adequate housing, education, work and social security were developed by OHCHR, in consultation with a panel of experts, including members of treaty bodies, special rapporteurs, United Nations agencies and civil society organizations. Identified indicators bring to the fore an assessment of steps taken by States parties in addressing their obligations, from acceptance of international human rights standards (structural indicators) to efforts being made by the primary duty-bearer, the State, to meet the obligations that flow from the standards (process indicators), through to the outcomes of those efforts from the perspective of rights-holders (outcome indicators). The framework, which adopts a common approach to monitoring civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights, was further validated through workshops and consultations at the country level with national human rights stakeholders, namely national human rights institutions, policymakers, statistical agencies, civil society organizations and United Nations agencies. Subregional workshops were organized in India and Uganda and a national seminar on human rights indicators was held in Brazil in 2007. 54. In April 2007, OHCHR-Nepal organized a series of meetings in Nepal on social exclusion and long-standing discrimination. The meetings were attended by the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, Doudou Diène; the Special Rapporteur on human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples, Rodolfo Stavenhagen; and experts from the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Chin Chung and Yozo Yokota. The visit of the experts in their unofficial capacity was specifically intended to assist OHCHR-Nepal to refine its policy and strategy for addressing social exclusion, discrimination and inequality issues, and to provide an opportunity to various local partners and stakeholders to conduct dialogues with the Special Rapporteurs and the experts on issues of concern relating to equality and non-discrimination. Issues concerning economic, social and cultural rights were raised during the discussions, particularly the problems faced by the Dalits in relation to literacy, school attendance, employment, health, nutrition and housing, with percentages significantly below national averages.