A/HRC/23/31 support, including short, specialized training sessions and an exchange programme with other national legislative bodies. 43. Continued support for the Government and the legislative assemblies at both the national and State levels will be crucial to ensuring that legislative processes are prompt, inclusive and transparent, and strengthen the legal human rights protection framework. IV. Priority areas for technical assistance 44. Significant efforts have been made and funds committed to the development of a legal and policy framework that prioritizes the protection of human rights in South Sudan. The South Sudan Development Plan for the period 2011-2013 and the United Nations Development Assistance Framework have identified human rights and gender equality as cross-cutting issues to be integrated into all development and State-building priorities. Because implementation of these plans has been severely constrained by the austerity budget imposed after the suspension of oil production, a proposal has been made to extend the validity of these parallel planning programmes until 2016. 45. Pursuant to Security Council resolutions 1996 (2011) and 2057 (2012), UNMISS was given a robust human rights mandate to strengthen the capacity of national stakeholders through enhancement of their skills and knowledge. A technical cooperation programme under the auspices of OHCHR has been embedded into the work of the UNMISS Human Rights Division as an important component of the Mission’s mandate. The programme has been implemented in the form of activities aimed at building the human rights capacity of specific stakeholders, in close collaboration with the Human Rights Commission and United Nations specialized agencies, funds and programmes. 46. Since the inception of UNMISS on 9 July 2011, under the Technical Cooperation Programme, 140 human rights capacity-building activities have been conducted in accordance with the UNMISS human rights mandate. These activities have focused on government ministries, the National Assembly, the South Sudan National Police Service, the SPLA (including Military Justice), corrections officers, traditional leaders, the Human Rights Commission, civil society organizations, human rights defenders and media groups. The activities, at the national, State and sometimes county levels, range from advice and recommendations on the human rights aspects of legislation to capacity-building workshops. 47. The work of the Human Rights Division of UNMISS is carried out in close collaboration with the Mission’s specialized components, namely United Nations police, the Rule of Law and Security Institutions Support Office, and the Child Protection, Civil Affairs and Gender units, to ensure the integration of human rights into all their institutionand capacity-building activities, including for civil society. As previously reported, the national Human Rights Commission remains a principle partner, though its work during the past year has been deeply affected by budget cuts. A. South Sudan National Police Service 48. The South Sudan National Police Service needs to build its capacity to fulfil its mandate to prevent, combat and investigate crime, maintain law and public order, protect people and property, and to uphold and enforce the Constitution and the law. On 23 January 2013, the President issued a decree for the appointment of a new head of the Service. 49. As reported by the High Commissioner in her previous report, the United Nations police developed the Strategic Training Plan for 2012-2015, in collaboration with 10