A/HRC/35/20 study on State practices of engagement with international human rights mechanisms, which seek to identify key ingredients for a well-functioning and efficient national mechanism for reporting and follow-up, drawing on different State practices, while not proposing a onesize-fits-all solution.15 51. In 2016, some 28 countries received, from the treaty body capacity-building programme, assistance related to national mechanisms for reporting and follow-up, 13 countries received assistance in establishing a national mechanism for reporting and followup, and 15 countries received assistance on the effective functioning of their existing national mechanism for reporting and follow-up. At the same time, State officials from some 50 countries increased their knowledge and skills in regard to the human rights treaties, as well as their treaty reporting skills, further to activities conducted at the national level. By the end of 2016, the programme had enhanced the skills and knowledge of 170 State officials from 77 countries, who had become trained trainers on treaty reporting and part of a network of State officials within their subregion. 2. Technical cooperation to support the establishment of national human rights action plans 52. The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action — the outcome document of the World Conference on Human Rights, of 1993 — suggests that States develop national action plans for human rights and that the United Nations establish a comprehensive programme to support States in establishing national human rights structures. 16 Since then, OHCHR has provided extensive assistance in the form of technical cooperation to States wanting to pursue the establishment of national human rights action plans. These plans can now benefit from increased coordination capacity at the State level through the national mechanisms for reporting and follow-up. An important milestone in this work is the production by OHCHR of a comprehensive guidance manual on national human rights action plans, which has been used extensively by States and by OHCHR staff when providing technical cooperation. 17 OHCHR will soon launch an updated version of that manual. 53. In South-East Asia, OHCHR contributed to exchanges of experiences between Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand on the development of national human rights action plans. At the suggestion of OHCHR, Malaysian officials visited Thailand to learn from the experiences of Thailand in developing a plan. 3. Online system for reporting on recommendations, in Paraguay 54. Individual OHCHR field presences are also offering technical cooperation on enhanced engagement with the international human rights mechanisms. In Paraguay, the Human Rights Adviser supported the State (the executive, legislative and judicial branches), the Attorney-General and the Ombudsman in their joint initiative to develop an inter-institutional mechanism to monitor, follow up on and report on the recommendations issued by the United Nations and the regional human rights mechanisms in relation to Paraguay. One important outcome of that process is the online Recommendations Monitoring System,18 developed to allow the uploading of human rights recommendations adopted by United Nations bodies in respect of Paraguay and to provide information on the follow-up to their implementation, including with regard to the State institutions in charge of implementation, all relevant policies and programmes, and actions, indicators and challenges. 15 16 17 18 OHCHR, National Mechanisms for Reporting and Follow-Up: A Practical Guide to Effective State Engagement with International Human Rights Mechanisms (2016). See A/CONF.157/23, para. 69. OHCHR, Handbook on National Human Rights Plans of Action (Professional Training Series No. 10) (29 August 2002). Sistema de Monitoreo de Recomendaciones, frequently referred to by its Spanish acronym SIMORE. 11