A/HRC/28/63 cases (see document A/HRC/22/47). The Special Rapporteur intends to make accredited national institutions privileged partners in following up recommendations in general but also in specific cases, as required. 94. Follow-up to country visits will also be an important element of the Special Rapporteur’s activities. He intends, where possible, to increase the number of short visits that he makes in order to ask State authorities about follow-up to recommendations and urgent appeals. 95. The procedure will be that discussion panels will be set up with the stakeholders of the country concerned to address the situation in that country and identify the best way of ensuring more effective follow-up to recommendations. When such a discussion panel is arranged, the country authorities will be officially informed through their permanent mission and the Special Rapporteur will request the government to hold bilateral discussions, which will make it possible to gain a better understanding of the status of implementation of recommendations. 96. The Special Rapporteur will take the opportunity to offer technical assistance, based on best observed practices, in order to provide the government with the appropriate tools to implement recommendations more effectively. G. Wider dissemination of good practices 97. The effective protection of human rights defenders and the follow-up of specific cases will be one of the main features of the Special Rapporteur’s activities, whether through communications or urgent appeals, country visits or short follow-up visits. 98. At the same time, the Special Rapporteur is well aware of the link between protection activities and promotion activities. He has been struck, during regional consultations, by the extraordinary vitality of human rights defenders, specialized NGOs and networks of defenders, who, over the 16 years since the adoption of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, have been able to develop and improve the mechanisms of protection, international solidarity and rapid reaction in the face of threats and attacks by, for example, using state-of-the-art technologies and social networks. 99. Some States and groups of countries have developed their own tools, guidelines, national legislation and visa or relocation mechanisms to prevent violations of the rights of human rights defenders more effectively and to protect those who need protection. 100. Seminars, round tables, forums and other forms of consultation have been organized on every continent to train human rights defenders, to teach them protection techniques and to protect their means of communication against surveillance risks. Such meetings provide an opportunity for exchanges of good practice and the Special Rapporteur will, where possible, respond positively to invitations made to him to participate in such meetings. 101. Lastly, the Special Rapporteur intends to join others in drafting a guide to good practices and to put every effort into the dissemination of good practices, which, when they are widely disseminated, so as to reach even the most isolated human rights defenders, can have a multiplier effect in protecting and promoting the right to defend human rights. H. Greater visibility for the issue of human rights defenders 102. During the first regional consultations, the human rights defenders expressed the importance of visibility for their situation and their role. They said they wished to see greater prominence given to positive stories about their work, their successes, the problems GE.14-25280 15