A/HRC/41/25 ministries, political parties and civil society groups. The plans cover civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights, and often specifically target equal access and enjoyment of human rights by particular groups who may be in vulnerable situations. 23. Since the idea of national human rights action plans was launched in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action in 1993, numerous States have established national or sectorial plans. OHCHR has developed a comprehensive guidance manual on national human rights action plans and has provided technical assistance to Member States on their establishment. 24. Plans for the implementation of recommendations thematically cluster all recommendations from international human rights mechanisms, prioritize them, assign implementation responsibilities to ministries and State entities and indicate a time frame for implementation, as well as resources and indicators. 25. The increased coordination capacity provided by national mechanisms for reporting and follow-up is crucial for strengthening the capacities of Member States to develop national or sectoral human rights action plans or plans for the implementation of recommendations, and link them to national efforts for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. In support, OHCHR aims to strengthen national capacities in that regard. For example, in 2018, OHCHR provided support to Haiti, Nauru, the Republic of Moldova, Samoa and Uganda on the establishment or strengthening of national mechanisms for reporting and follow-up and, in addition, provided technical assistance on the elaboration or revision of national human rights action plans (see A/HRC/40/3). C. Integrating human rights into national policies for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals 26. OHCHR has developed a number of tools to support efforts by Member States to enhance implementation of international human rights recommendations and integrate them into their national policies for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. They include supporting the establishment of information management systems to facilitate the clustering and prioritization of recommendations and the development of human rights indicators. 27. The Universal Human Rights Index, a web-based database designed to facilitate access to human rights recommendations issued by the treaty bodies, the special procedures and the universal periodic review, has proven to be a useful tool to produce overviews of recommendations by country, linking them to each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. As part of an agreement between OHCHR and the Danish Institute for Human Rights, in 2018 a database was launched linking more than 50,000 recommendations made during the first and second cycles of the universal periodic review to specific Sustainable Development Goals, with a view to expanding it to include the recommendations from all human rights mechanisms (A/HRC/38/28, para. 17). 28. In a number of countries, OHCHR is also piloting, at their request, a specific tool, the national recommendations tracking database, which aims to facilitate the recording, tracking and reporting on the implementation of recommendations at country level, drawing road maps and assigning responsibilities, with clear budgets, benchmarks of success and timelines, for their implementation. The database allows Member States to import the recommendations from United Nations human rights mechanisms addressed to them directly from the Universal Human Rights Index, cluster and prioritize them, develop an implementation plan, including indicators and responsible institutions, and report on implementation. Member States can search and retrieve all this information through several parameters, including thematic areas, affected persons or groups and Sustainable Development Goals and targets. 29. Strong synergies can be built by clustering recommendations emanating from the human rights mechanisms and linking them to the Sustainable Development Goals. In Paraguay, the online database for following up on the recommendations of the international human rights mechanisms was developed with OHCHR support and was expanded in 2017 6

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