A/HRC/26/51 26. On the basis of its findings and experience, the Board is able to provide advice on challenges and opportunities experienced by OHCHR field presences in the area of technical cooperation, on good practices in the implementation of technical cooperation locally, and more generally on the broad lines for the design and implementation of technical cooperation work as an integral part of the programme of the Office. 27. The Board considers therefore that a number of components for effective technical cooperation by OHCHR have become evident. These elements were broadly presented to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-third session. First, effective technical cooperation is based on the universality and indivisibility of all human rights and includes both the protection and the promotion of human rights. Second, effective technical cooperation focuses on building and strengthening national frameworks and institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights. Third, effective technical cooperation reflects national development objectives to ensure the highest levels of ownership and sustainability, as well as to respond to genuine national interest, commitments and efforts in the promotion and protection of human rights. Fourth, technical cooperation is formulated and implemented with the broadest possible participation of all elements of national societies, and is also linked with regional and subregional human rights mechanisms. Fifth, technical cooperation is linked to the follow-up on implementation of the recommendations and concluding observations made by international human rights mechanisms. Sixth, technical cooperation is mainstreamed through all United Nations agencies and operations in each country and region. Seventh, effective technical cooperation requires linking it with existing thematic priorities of the Office and maintaining it as an integral part of the overall OHCHR programme. 28. The Board, through its reports and presentations to the Human Rights Council, has already elaborated on the importance of anchoring technical cooperation on the universality and indivisibility of all human rights, including its protection and promotion aspects. The Board would like to continue as a programme of work for the coming years its elaboration of the main elements of the above-mentioned seven components, as it considers that this could be beneficial to support the Office in the implementation of the technical cooperation aspects of its new four-year programme for the period 2014-2017. In the present report, the Board underscores the critical importance of building and strengthening national frameworks and institutions in the field of human rights through technical cooperation and advisory services with the support of OHCHR, as well as the importance of partnerships with United Nations entities on the ground. B. Technical cooperation, and building and strengthening national frameworks and institutions 29. The first of the components of effective technical cooperation described above is its basis in the universality and indivisibility of all human rights, and includes both the protection and the promotion of human rights. This is the key objective of technical cooperation: better promotion and protection of human rights. The second component, building and strengthening national frameworks and institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights, is the strategy and methodology for achieving the key objective. 30. The term “national frameworks and institutions” is an inclusive term that incorporates the whole range of mechanisms available to States to fulfil their international human rights obligations. It includes the rule of law, legal and political accountability, democratically elected parliaments, independent courts and independent national human rights institutions, national development institutions, just to mention a few. The strategy employed by effective technical cooperation is directed towards the strengthening of these 8