A/HRC/33/33 workshops on strategic planning and complaints, investigation and conciliation management, with a view of building the capacity of the Commission. 26. In Sierra Leone, OHCHR provided support to the National Human Rights Council on the universal periodic review, sexual and gender-based violence and persons with disabilities, and organized a workshop on business and human rights in May 2016. 27. In Malawi, OHCHR trained the Human Rights Commission, including on business and human rights, human rights monitoring and engagement with the United Nations human rights system. 28. In Kenya, OHCHR provided technical and financial support to the National Commission on Human Rights, including on counter-terrorism, investigations, monitoring of places of detention, protection of human rights defenders, follow-up to recommendations from international human rights mechanisms, business, and reproductive rights. 2. Americas and the Caribbean 29. During the period under review, the OHCHR regional offices for South and Central America, the country offices in the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico, the human rights advisers to the United Nations country teams in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Panama and Paraguay, and the human rights component of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, continued to provide advice on and assistance in strengthening national human rights institutions in the Americas and the Caribbean, in consultation with the OHCHR National Institutions, Regional Mechanisms and Civil Society Section. (a) Legislative advice 30. In 2015, OHCHR provided legislative advice on the establishment of a national human rights institution in Jamaica, as well as training to the staff members of the Office of the Public Defender of Jamaica on international human rights standards and mechanisms. (b) Capacity-building 31. In Paraguay, OHCHR trained the staff of the Ombudsman institution on the universal periodic review, treaty bodies and special procedures. 32. In October 2014, OHCHR conducted training for the national human rights institution of Peru on follow-up to universal periodic review recommendations. 33. In November 2014, in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the national human rights institution of Chile, OHCHR conducted a workshop for civil society organizations on the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure. In 2015, also in partnership with the national human rights institution of Chile, OHCHR organized a seminar on alternative reporting to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and a regional seminar on business and human rights, and launched a joint publication on social protests and human rights. In August 2015, other activities were jointly carried out on sexual and reproductive rights, and on social protests, as well as training on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex rights. 34. In December 2014, OHCHR collaborated with the national human rights institution of Argentina on the operationalization of a guide on combating racial and ethnic discrimination, and to deliver training on indigenous peoples’ rights to Guarani communities. 6 GE.16-11355