A/HRC/38/28 I. Introduction and methodology 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 36/28, in which the Council requested OHCHR to prepare a report on how United Nations human rights bodies and mechanisms, including the Human Rights Council, the universal periodic review, the special procedures and the treaty bodies, and United Nations country teams and agencies can, through effective, coherent and coordinated technical assistance and capacitybuilding in the promotion and protection of human rights, support States in the realization of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In the resolution, the Council requests OHCHR to highlight practical steps and concrete examples that seek to promote policy synergy and coherence, use of technology and innovation, the strengthening of the capacity of national statistical offices and data systems related to human rights where applicable, and ways to enhance national implementation, reporting and follow-up, taking into account the different constraints and needs of States. 2. The present report will serve as a basis for the discussions at the annual thematic panel on technical cooperation, at the Council’s thirty-eighth session, which will focus on enhancing human rights technical cooperation and capacity-building to contribute to the effective and inclusive implementation of the 2030 Agenda. 3. In preparing the present report, OHCHR gathered information on different experiences, including methodologies used and lessons learned. OHCHR is grateful for the inputs received from Member States and United Nations entities in the preparation of the report. Those contributions — together with information provided by United Nations country teams, from United Nations human rights bodies and mechanisms 1 and from across OHCHR and its field presences — constitute the basis for the report. Realization of the 2030 Agenda has only recently been set in motion, but as Member States, supported by the United Nations system, move forward with national implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, good practices are emerging. In the present report, which is designed to frame the panel’s discussions and facilitate exchanges of views and experiences, OHCHR focuses on concrete examples of how human rights technical cooperation and capacity-building support the realization of the 2030 Agenda and ensure a rights-based implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals that integrates the principle of leaving no one behind. Azerbaijan, Gabon, Greece, Italy, Qatar, the Russian Federation and Thailand submitted information relevant for the preparation of the report. 4. In the report is built on examples of how technical cooperation and capacitybuilding programmes are supporting States in practical terms in their realization of the 2030 Agenda. Throughout the report, information can be found about the use of guidance tools, and there are examples of efforts to promote synergies and policy coherence between the implementation efforts at the national level and the follow-up to the recommendations of international human rights mechanisms, and examples of methodological support with regard to indicators and data collection in the planning, monitoring, evaluation and followup phases. 5. In the report, OHCHR endeavours to identify what can be considered as good practice, and examines opportunities, challenges, gaps, and possible priority areas of focus. Given the limitations on the length of documents, the report cannot be exhaustive. Rather, it is focused on a number of concrete examples that can serve as a basis for the sharing of experiences among States during the panel discussions. II. Operational framework and policy 6. The 2030 Agenda, which was adopted by consensus by all Member States, is firmly grounded in the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 2 Including the Human Rights Council, the universal periodic review, special procedures and the human rights treaty bodies.