A/HRC/9/4 page 4 11. OHCHR has continued to contribute to the implementation of the World Programme and its plan of action by conducting the following activities:2 (a) Facilitating information-sharing and networking among all actors through the ongoing development of the OHCHR Database on Human Rights Education and Training, which provides information on relevant institutions, programmes and materials (accessible at http://hre.ohchr.org/hret), and of the Resource Collection on Human Rights Education and Training, a specialized section of the OHCHR library that includes a variety of human rights education and training materials. OHCHR continues to respond on a daily basis to related queries from governmental and non-governmental actors, including by providing human rights education and training reference services and advice. OHCHR has also supported international and regional human rights education activities organized by other actors through grants, publications, participation of specialized staff and other initiatives, as appropriate; (b) Supporting national capacities for human rights education and training through projects undertaken within the framework of the OHCHR programme of technical cooperation in the field of human rights.3 OHCHR has continued to devote enhanced efforts to strengthening national capacities for human rights training of military, police and other staff deployed to peacekeeping operations; (c) Supporting grass-roots human rights education initiatives through the Assisting Communities Together Project, a joint initiative of OHCHR and UNDP. The project provides small grants to national and local non-governmental organizations for community-based human rights education and training projects. In the fifth phase (2005-2008), which focused on supporting activities within the school system, OHCHR supported 155 projects in 44 countries.4 In May 2008, UNDP and OHCHR launched the sixth phase (2008-2009) of the Project, in which the participation of 33 countries is envisaged. To create synergy with the first phase of the World Programme, the sixth phase of the Project will focus on supporting projects contributing to the 2 More information on all these activities is available on the address www2.ohchr.org/english/ issues/education/training/index.htm. 3 More information on this programme is available on the address www.ohchr.org/EN/ Countries/Pages/TechnicalCooperationIndex.aspx. 4 In Africa (Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda); in the Arab region (Iraq, Palestinian Authority); in the Asia-Pacific group (Afghanistan, Cook Islands, Indonesia, Mongolia, Samoa, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu); in Europe and Central Asia (Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Serbia and Montenegro, Tajikistan, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Ukraine); and in Latin America and the Caribbean (Belize, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Uruguay).

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