A/HRC/23/18 37. At the regional consultations, specific initiatives were identified, such as a coordination body of United Nations and Inter-American human rights mechanisms on torture, which would hold periodic meetings to exchange information, identify common thematic priorities, discuss strategies and identify complementary areas. Another initiative was the drafting of a joint report that would follow up on the recommendations made by both systems between 2007 and 2010. At the regional consultation in Europe, it was recommended that United Nations and European mechanisms on torture should coordinate their assistance to national preventive mechanisms so as to avoid duplication. In that regard, the role played by the European national preventive mechanisms project of the Council of Europe was underscored. At the regional consultation for Africa, it was recommended that United Nations and African mechanisms on torture should consult each other and share information at the stages of strategic planning, planning and implementation of activities, and follow-up. To that end, the establishment of an institutional framework on cooperation was suggested in the form of a general memorandum of understanding or of specific memorandums between United Nations and African mechanisms on torture. 38. In follow-up to the regional consultation in Africa, a meeting on enhancing prevention of torture in Africa was held in Johannesburg, in August 2012, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Guidelines and Measures for the Prohibition and Prevention of Torture, Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in Africa (the Robben Island Guidelines), the main regional instrument on the prevention of torture. Participants included representatives of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, national human rights institutions, national preventive mechanisms and non-governmental organizations. The Johannesburg Declaration and Plan of Action on the Prevention and Criminalization of Torture in Africa, which included measures and recommendations to be implemented, was adopted at the end of the meeting. 39. Participants also referred to the joint working group meetings of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of the Child, held in 2010. At the meetings, the decision was made to create a task force to identify modalities of reducing the reporting burden on States parties to the two treaties. Recommendations to enhance cooperation between the two bodies were adopted, including on the sharing of information and on participation in the activities of the other body. 40. On the margins of the seventeenth session of the Human Rights Council, in June 2011, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences convened a side event on regional standards on violence against women. The panel included representatives from African, Inter-American, European and ASEAN human rights mechanisms, who discussed the levels of protection envisaged by regional human rights instruments, remaining gaps and challenges, as well as possible areas of cooperation with the United Nations special procedures. 4. Study visits, workshops and training programmes 41. Certain capacity-building activities were cited as good practices, in particular those for emergent regional human rights mechanisms: for example, in December 2010, OHCHR and the United Nations Development Programme organized a workshop on strengthening secretariat support for the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, in Jakarta. A similar workshop was organized in 2011 by OHCHR for the secretariat of the OIC Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission. 42. A study visit conducted in 2011 by the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights to Europe and the United States of America was mentioned as a good practice. During that visit, commissioners held meetings with the Inter-American 10