A/HRC/29/21 identifying indicators to monitor progress; the role of civil society and national human rights institutions throughout the process; and the increasing role and the value added by the involvement of parliamentarians. 21. OHCHR formalized a partnership with the Inter-Parliamentary Union in order to strengthen the participation of parliamentarians in the work of the Human Rights Council, with a specific focus on the universal periodic review and the implementation of recommendations emerging from the review, and in recognition of the importance of such participation. In this context, a series of regional seminars were held in 2014, namely, in Bucharest (February), Montevideo (July) and Rabat (September). Parliamentarians from the respective regions were brought together at the seminars with a view to familiarizing them with the universal periodic review process and identifying areas for their intervention and involvement. IV. Conclusions 22. The Voluntary Fund for Participation in the Universal Periodic Review continued to facilitate the participation of developing countries, and in particular least developed countries, in the sessions of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review at which they are considered. Assistance has been provided to those States, at their request, to enable them to participate in the adoption of their outcome document by the Human Rights Council at its plenary sessions. In that regard, and in addition to the relevant correspondence, the secretariat is following up with delegations through a more proactive approach to ensure that all States entitled to assistance under the Voluntary Fund avail themselves of the opportunity. 23. Since the inception of the universal periodic review and the inherent related challenge to ensure that participation is indeed universal, the needs and constraints of least developed countries have been considered. Ensuring the informed, regular and full participation of States with little resources and no representation in Geneva, in addition to all other States, requires regular outreach activities. Specific attention and focus have been given to those countries through targeted initiatives either at the bilateral level or through the organization of subregional seminars. Initiatives to follow up on the Mauritius and Casablanca seminars will be pursued in 2015 through targeted seminars for Lusophone countries and Caribbean States. 24. OHCHR is expanding and strengthening its partnership with the InterParliamentary Union, and the series of regional seminars will be continued in 2015. It is expected that once the first round of seminars is concluded a compilation of the good practices that emerged in the meetings will be prepared and widely shared among relevant stakeholders. 6