A/HRC/41/25 V. Conclusions 67. As stated in a recent report of the Secretary-General, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development represents a major shift towards a more balanced development model with human rights at its core. With the third cycle of the universal periodic review, the relevance, precision and impact of its recommendations would be strengthened, including through stronger tie-ins with United Nations country teams, and existing OHCHR databases would link all findings and recommendations with the Sustainable Development Goals, making it easier to integrate those benchmarks into planning at country level. OHCHR indicators would help the United Nations to better support Member States monitor their progress towards fulfilment of the Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (A/72/351, para. 81). 68. In his report, the Secretary-General specifically pointed out that the success of States in their efforts to promote and protect human rights, including developing comprehensive human rights action plans and plans for the implementation of recommendations of human rights mechanisms, with the support of the United Nations, would undoubtedly depend on national mechanisms for reporting and followup being in place to deal with the task of implementing recommendations and reporting on those efforts and the impact achieved, in close cooperation and consultation with national stakeholders (ibid., para. 83). 69. With respect to international cooperation, including through human rights mechanisms and their recommendations, the Secretary-General emphasized that it provided an important basis for States to achieve greater results in both the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and the protection of human rights at country level. The Secretary-General concluded that international and national efforts and action in the field of human rights should therefore be geared towards assisting States in effectively achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and in implementing the recommendations of the international human rights mechanisms (ibid., para. 85). 70. The regional level provides a useful interface for ensuring that international human rights standards translate into national contexts and for ensuring the relevance and impact of international machinery and reporting. United Nations and regional mechanisms should endeavour to implement agreements for sharing experiences and best practices and mutual capacity-building. 71. OHCHR experience points to evolving good practice that draws new contours of triangular North-South and South-South cooperation, promising greater national ownership, coordination and sustainability. The sharing of good practices of implementation of the recommendations of human rights mechanisms at regional, subregional and national levels has proved to be a valuable tool for linking up the executive with the other branches of government and enhancing the oversight role of parliaments, national human rights institutions and civil society organizations. 72. Greater transparency in identifying human rights needs will mobilize the United Nations system and the international community to provide greater assistance and support through ODA and existing trust funds. Peer reviews carried out by the OECD Development Assistance Committee could take into account human rights recommendations, notably from the universal periodic review, especially when countries that are recipients of ODA are ready to undertake reforms in follow-up to recommendations they have supported. Recommending States could ensure that their development cooperation entity is actively involved in such implementation efforts in States that are recipients of ODA. 73. The resulting compact between Governments, the United Nations system and the international community on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, with human rights at their core, is crucial to the success of the prevention agenda of the Secretary-General and of the Sustainable Development Goals. The enhancement of international cooperation in the field of human rights through the implementation of 15