A/HRC/16/20 80. OHCHR continued to work closely with humanitarian partners at all levels of different humanitarian processes, notably as a standing invitee to the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC). OHCHR is an active member of the IASC Sub-Working Group on Preparedness and contributes to the latter’s four-monthly “IASC Early-Warning EarlyAction” report. OHCHR monitoring, reporting and advocacy has been used to highlight deteriorating human rights situations and emerging crises to enable preventive measures to be taken by country teams, agencies and non United Nations partners. OHCHR is in this way supporting partners through analysis and recommendations of strategic options to mitigate emerging situations in for example Guinea, Kyrgyzstan and the Sudan. 81. In addition, the Office supports the Humanitarian Reform Process led by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, in particular in the context of the Humanitarian Coordination Strengthening Project and the Cluster Approach, especially the Protection Cluster. OHCHR is a core member of the Global Protection Cluster Working Group and its various task forces including on natural disasters and learning. The Office also sits in the Steering Committee of the Protection Standby Capacity Project (ProCap), an inter-agency standby roster of protection officers that provides support to United Nations agencies in their protection response to crises. 82. Within the context of the cluster approach, the Office leads Protection Clusters in Haiti, Nepal, the occupied Palestinian territory and the Pacific region, and plays a key supporting role in other countries such as Kyrgyzstan and Uganda. 83. In order to enhance the expertise and capacity of OHCHR to deploy staff on humanitarian assignments, a number of staff participated in an OHCHR pilot training course on human rights and humanitarian action. III. Conclusion 84. The year 2011 marks a number of anniversaries, such as the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development and the tenth anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action. The year 2011 is also the International Year for People of African Descent and marks the conclusion of the Human Rights Council review and first cycle of UPR, setting the stage for the second cycle focusing on implementation of previous recommendations. In 2011, I will be submitting a compilation of recommendations for the strengthening of the treaty body system. 85. By definition, human rights work is a collective effort in a historic movement and strategic priorities are long term. The year 2011 will include a number of landmarks on which we will build to deepen our engagement in the six priority areas of our work. They will remain our priorities for the biennium 2012-2013. We will do so against the background of an untenable financial situation stemming from the gap between increased requests for mandated activities, zero growth of the regular budget and shrinking extrabudgetary resources. 17