A/HRC/43/68 Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Libya, Somalia and the Sudan (Darfur); and 4 country and standalone offices, in Chad, Mauritania, Mexico and the State of Palestine. 52. Through the Voluntary Fund, OHCHR continued facilitating national efforts to incorporate international human rights standards into national laws, policies and practices, with particular emphasis placed on follow-up to the recommendations made by international human rights mechanisms and the development of online mechanisms to facilitate such follow-up. Particularly relevant during the period under review have been the technical cooperation and advisory services provided in the context of the support of States’ efforts on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. It has also contributed to the establishment and strengthening of national structures, institutions and capacities to ensure adherence to those standards. Activities to strengthen the administration of justice, including support for increasing capacities for access for individuals and groups facing discrimination and exclusion and increasing the capacity to promote gender equality and women’s rights and combat inequalities, have also featured prominently and were linked to the particular Sustainable Development Goal. United Nations resident coordinators and country teams have continued to see their human rights capacity strengthened. Detailed information on income and expenditure under the Voluntary Fund, its financial status in 2019 and a list of donors and contributors are contained in annexes to the present report (see annexes II–IV). V. Main findings and recommendations 53. The Board has been particularly pleased to observe how the priority areas and target populations identified by OHCHR are serving to solidify new areas of support through technical cooperation. It coincides with the expectations and needs on the ground, as observed by the Board after holding sessions in all regions. The Board has paid attention in particular to the issue of corruption and its profound impact on the enjoyment of human rights and noticed how that issue has increasingly been included in training and capacitybuilding initiatives and policy dialogues. The Board continues to observe how the investment of the Office in furthering the understanding of the dimensions of corruption, in the initial years of implementation of the plan of OHCHR, is triggering specific areas of support through the technical cooperation provided by OHCHR. The Board recommends that OHCHR begin taking steps to further mainstream those results into its programmes and projects. Furthermore, the Board has noted with appreciation the enhanced focus in addressing inequalities, in particular the profound focus on gender equality issues and combating gender-based violence. The Board recommends that OHCHR continue developing that area further, in particular to explore how local authorities and communities can be further engaged in addressing the deep-seated root causes of inequalities and exclusion. 54. Those issues and the realization of human rights are central imperatives of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. The Board welcomes in particular the partnership with the United Nations Sustainable Development Group to ensure that resident coordinators and United Nations country teams are well equipped with the knowledge, experience and expertise on human rights necessary to better support States. According to the findings of the Board, the expanded deployment of human rights advisers contributes greatly to the strengthening of capacity and contributes to ensuring that all United Nations programming processes are rooted in human rights, as envisioned in the 2030 Agenda. The solid efforts to ensure human rights inclusion throughout the programmatic United Nations tools, including the new iteration of the United Nations sustainable development cooperation frameworks, as key components to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, are welcomed by the Board. The Board commends national partners and resident coordinators and their teams on the ground who are developing practical mechanisms to fully integrate human rights into the ongoing sustainable development programmes, through the incorporation of the outcomes of the international human rights mechanisms as key reference points to guide priority-setting and programmatic interventions. 55. The experience in Mozambique shows the commitment, knowledge and capacity of the Office’s staff and how the Office and the national partners work jointly building the 13