A/HRC/34/24 human rights in all governmental policies; and a set of human rights indicators based on the aforementioned OHCHR guide on human rights indicators. 60. Thirdly, the majority of delegations emphasized the critical importance of ensuring that follow-up processes and systems were widely inclusive, with a view to involving multiple stakeholders. 61. In this regard, the continued active role played by civil society, including NGOs, academics, legal and health professionals, was welcomed by numerous delegations. Several delegations mentioned that they had prepared their national implementation plans in cooperation with NGOs. One delegation mentioned specifically indigenous groups in its consultation process. Another delegation stated that civil society, together with national human rights institutions, provided crucial support in measuring the implementation of recommendations. This is all the more true in the absence of an effective follow-up mechanism at the State level, as stated by an NGO. The same organization added that civil society has been actively engaging with various governments to ensure that they are aware of sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics issues and know what steps they need to take. Another NGO recommended that national human rights follow-up systems should systematically involve civil society and human rights defenders in the follow-up to recommendations, from the planning stage to the actual implementation. 62. National human rights institutions were also praised on several occasions as being valuable partners in ensuring follow-up to recommendations. For instance, one delegation mentioned that the Government had made a commitment to work with the national human rights commission to develop a public and accessible process for monitoring progress in relation to recommendations made by the universal periodic review. Similarly, a number of delegations referred to the legislative branch as being one stakeholder that should be involved in the follow-up process. In this regard, the importance of the participation of Members of Parliament in State delegations during the universal periodic review, notably in the run up to its third cycle, was stressed. 63. Referring to the recent Glion Human Rights Dialogue, one delegation asked whether there would be any merit in establishing some guidelines for national human rights followup systems and processes. 64. Finally, one NGO suggested that, inter alia, United Nations human rights bodies prioritize the adoption of objective criteria to assess and incentivize the implementation of their recommendations and systematically request States to establish national follow-up systems when relevant. It also called on United Nations country teams to redouble efforts to support the implementation of all United Nations human rights recommendations evenly. C. Role of international cooperation to support national human rights follow-up systems and processes 65. Several delegations emphasized the importance of international cooperation to support national human rights follow-up systems and processes. One delegation noted that a follow-up and implementation perspective was helpful for understanding the types of needs countries may have, the practices they were developing to meet those needs, and how these could inspire other countries to take similar actions, with the support of the United Nations. A few delegations emphasized that the consent of the State receiving technical assistance had to be the rule. 66. A number of delegations shared their experiences in providing technical assistance to other States. One delegation stated that it had developed a programme of cooperation that had been implemented successfully in various countries. It noted that each country created 12