A/HRC/43/68 implementation of key recommendations emanating from the universal periodic review, strengthening the capacity of United Nations country teams, establishing and/or strengthening national mechanisms for reporting and follow-up, creating a plan and database on the implementation of recommendations and strengthening parliamentary capacities for implementation. 17. With the Office and partners, the Board continued to explore the relevance of and opportunities for the provision of advisory services and technical cooperation in areas identified as priorities, such as corruption, climate change, inequalities and the displacement and movement of people. The Board has found the expertise and experience of OHCHR in those areas to be essential in supporting a broader and better understanding of the human rights dimensions and implications linked with the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. The Board has considered the challenges that corruption poses for human rights at all levels and the type of interventions, through research, advocacy, advisory services, training and technical cooperation, that could be useful to support States. Corruption affects the basic human rights of millions of people around the world, due to the impact that it has on the already often reduced public funds for the provision of basic services, including for education, health and pensions. The Board found the efforts that the Office is putting into enhancing its thematic capacities to better advise partners in those areas to be very relevant and is encouraged by the type of programmes that are in place on the ground and being implemented together with main partners in the regions it has visited. B. Forty-ninth session (Pretoria and Maputo) 18. In accordance with its practice of holding one of its two sessions each year in a State where OHCHR has a field presence, the Board held its forty-ninth session in Pretoria, where OHCHR has its Regional Office for Southern Africa. The Board also used the opportunity to visit the Regional Office’s technical cooperation project in Mozambique and its main implementing partners there. 19. The main purpose of the session was to increase the understanding of the type of technical cooperation that OHCHR provides in a regional context and to give relevant guidance to the Office on continuing to strengthen the technical cooperation components of its programmes on the ground. As was the case in its previous sessions in other regions, the Board also explored the experiences and expectations in the priority areas, in particular the impact of corruption in addressing inequalities and the human rights situation regarding the movement of people, with the Office and its partners. In South Africa, the Board learned about specific and locally based projects in the host country and other countries in the region, including Mozambique and Malawi. 20. With the session in Southern Africa, the Board has completed a first round of visits to all types of OHCHR field presences in all regions. The sessions have provided another dimension to the Board’s advisory role, given that its members have been able to continue building a better understanding of the type of technical cooperation that OHCHR is best placed to offer and how the results of the Office’s monitoring role and analysis of challenges and opportunities on the ground serve to develop sound technical cooperation programmes, together with partners, to address those challenges and build on opportunities yielding visible results. 21. The physical presence of the Office in the region and the Office’s strategy to expand its regional presence and technical capacity is enabling it to enhance the value of its unique mandate and to engage actively with key partners in the region. The Board observed how the highly qualified technical expertise of the Office in Pretoria, working in close interaction with all actors on the ground, had established the necessary trust to gather the evidence-based information necessary to provide relevant advice to State entities and other key actors on effective policies and programmes. 22. During the session, the Board learned about the support being provided in Malawi to the United Nations country team and national partners through the deployment of a human rights adviser. The deployment is facilitated, as is the case in 37 countries around the world, 5