A/HRC/26/51 this way can the individual State that has sought international assistance acquire the capacity to ensure itself its full compliance with its international human rights obligations. The Board is of the view that newly established thematic priority on widening the democratic space provides a solid framework to support States in these endeavours, and hopes that it would attract necessary resources to be adequately implemented. C. Synergy and partnerships with other United Nations entities 37. Synergies and partnerships among United Nations agencies and programmes in the area of technical cooperation in the field of human rights is one of the focus areas of attention of the Board during its sessions, in particular during its visits to OHCHR presences in countries. 38. Through discussions with United Nations Resident Coordinators and United Nations agencies and programmes, the Board has had the opportunity to study the extent to which the programme, priority focus and activities of a particular office are also in line with or respond to the main human rights issues and the demands from a variety of country partners, and how they relate and are linked to the United Nations development framework, other programming tools and joint United Nations development efforts on the ground. 39. In Mexico, as in the case of previous visits, the Board met with the United Nations Resident Coordinator and representatives from the United Nations Children’s Fund and the International Organization for Migration. During the discussions, the role of the Office in ensuring human rights mainstreaming across the work of the United Nations country teams was particularly stressed, as was the capacity of the Office to provide timely and substantive advice on relevant human rights normative issues. The Office was found to be a reliable and critical partner in joint capacity-building and advisory services, provided by the United Nations at the request of the Government. 40. The Board has observed that, in countries where the presence of the Office is particularly well established through acceptable human resources and expertise as well as the capacity to adequately and independently monitor the human rights complexities on the ground, the technical cooperation programmes developed at the request and in close cooperation with relevant state entities and other United Nations partners are often robust and provide visible and measurable results. D. Measuring results in technical cooperation and the response of the Office of the High Commissioner 41. Measuring impact at the country level and monitoring programme implementation are becoming less challenging for OHCHR, as all its presences and all Headquarters structures move on to using the online performance monitoring system, which was designed to plan, monitor and report on results for all of OHCHR programming. At November 2013, all OHCHR field presences (including all those presences receiving support from the Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation) had submitted all their planning documents (annual and for the programming cycle for the period 2014-2017), as well as their end-ofcycle reports (2012-2013) through the system. Board members were highly encouraged by the impressive results that the increased and systematic use of the system was already achieving, even at the early stages. 42. During the sessions in Geneva and in the field visits, the Board observed how the system, which interlinks planning, monitoring, the production of reports and sharing experiences, represents a paramount tool facilitating enormously and in a very professional manner the definition and selection of the Office’s results, as well as their measurement. 10