A/HRC/41/25 Sustainable Development Goal and share experiences and good practices (A/HRC/40/34, para. 100). 12. In her dialogue with the Human Rights Council on 7 March 2019, the Deputy Secretary-General urged Member States to leverage the multilateral system to secure progress and increase resources for implementation of the 2030 Agenda and human rights at the national level, including for the least developed countries, landlocked least developed countries and small island developing States. She further encouraged Member States to engage with all parts of the United Nations system, especially the human rights system, noting that the universal periodic review and other human rights mechanisms were essential to the effort, since they made key recommendations that could help advance the success of the Sustainable Development Goals at national level. 13. The Deputy Secretary-General stated that countries could also show progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by utilizing human rights reporting processes, such as the universal periodic review, which would provide a space for discussion and cooperation among stakeholders, and that those review processes could complement the voluntary national reviews conducted at the high-level political forum for sustainable development. 14. As part of its mandate, OHCHR provides technical support for the implementation of international human rights norms at the national level and works to mainstream human rights in all areas of work of the United Nations, through its field presences in over 70 countries and enhanced support to United Nations country teams, facilitated by the United Nations Sustainable Development Group. Such efforts are anchored in a holistic and integrated approach that takes into account the outcomes and recommendations of all international human rights mechanisms, including the treaty bodies, the special procedures and the universal periodic review. III. Key elements at the national level A. Establishing national mechanisms for reporting and follow-up 15. The significant expansion of the human rights system, at both the international and regional levels, has placed increasing requirements on Member States to report to the international and regional human rights mechanisms and follow up on the recommendations or outcomes emanating from them. As a result, an increasing number of Member States are adopting a more comprehensive, efficient and sustainable approach by putting in place a new type of governmental structure, known as a national mechanism for reporting and follow-up. 16. National mechanisms for reporting and follow-up ensure coordination between different government entities, thereby building national ownership and coherence, empowering line ministries and developing sustainable expertise. They also allow for structured and formalized contacts with parliament, the judiciary, national human rights institutions and civil society, strengthening participatory, inclusive and accountable human rights-based governance. 17. Those mechanisms are uniquely placed to take the lead in clustering and prioritizing recommendations, developing a comprehensive national human rights action plan or a specific implementation plan for following up on recommendations and promoting the integration of such recommendations in national policies for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. In a number of countries, such mechanisms also coordinate the preparation of midterm reports to the universal periodic review, which are submitted on a voluntary basis by an increasing number of countries (currently 73). 18. In order to be effective, the mechanisms are normally equipped with four complementary capacities: (a) Engagement capacity: the capacity to engage and liaise with international and regional human rights mechanisms and centrally facilitate the preparation of reports and 4