A/HRC/43/68 clearly expanding the opportunities to engage strategically in the region and support greater cooperation. The experiences and impacts shared by partners at the session evidenced how the Office was present in the region and how it responded in a timely and efficient manner to requests for technical cooperation, while also anticipating and identifying through early warning and preventive work actions requiring enhanced support, despite its currently very limited staff capacity compared with other United Nations entities covering a similar number of countries. 36. The Regional Office for Southern Africa is one of the regional offices of OHCHR that does not receive United Nations regular budget resources, which is often the case for offices in regional settings. Furthermore, it faces the additional challenge of securing extrabudgetary contributions for regional work, given the middle-income status of many countries. As stressed in various studies, including by the Economic Commission for Africa, the region is grappling with high levels of inequality amid economic growth. All partners with whom the Board met recognized the importance of promoting inclusive, human rights-focused policies, in line with the goal of the 2030 Agenda to leave no one behind. Women are key drivers of change in the region, and States should be supported in addressing gender inequality and enhancing the empowerment of women. It is critical to invest in ensuring a more robust human rights expertise and capacity in the region, and OHCHR should be fully supported in that endeavour. 37. At its meetings in both South Africa and in Mozambique, the Board also met with interested Member States supporting technical cooperation programmes in the region, in close cooperation with the OHCHR Donor and External Relations Section, and noted the relevant interest in the results achieved and in continuing to enhance support to the Office’s programmes on the ground. The Board therefore encourages Member States to expand their financial contributions through allocating a robust portion of the regular budget and ensuring enhanced extrabudgetary resources to the Office, in particular for the areas and projects identified as requiring financial support. III. Technical cooperation A. Technical cooperation in the field of human rights: key components of sound technical cooperation programmes 38. In 2012, the Board brought to the attention of the Human Rights Council a series of seven components for effective technical cooperation efforts by OHCHR and other United Nations entities. The components had become evident through its experience overseeing the management of the programmes financed through the Voluntary Funds and providing overall policy advice on technical cooperation. The context of the components has been elaborated in detail in each of the annual reports and in the oral presentations of the Chair of the Board to the Human Rights Council. The components have been noted with appreciation by Member States in various resolutions of the Human Rights Council, most recently in resolution 42/32, as a way to identify good practices. Over the past eight years, the Board has been guided by the components when identifying good practices and consulting with national partners on the ground. The experiences on the ground and information gathered on good practices have been used to refine and update the components in the context of efforts to achieve the commitments and pledges under the 2030 Agenda. The Board takes the opportunity of the present report to set out the redefined and updated components for easy reference by all partners. 1. Technical cooperation programmes must be based on the universality and indivisibility of all human rights – economic, civil, cultural, political and social rights – and must include both elements for the protection and the promotion of human rights. 39. Through the field visits conducted and discussions held in 2019, the Board has observed how the challenges of and impediments to the enjoyment of economic and social rights affect and have a negative impact on the enjoyment of civil and political rights, whereas on the other hand, restricted civil and political rights constrain the enjoyment of 9