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5.
In close consultation with the various sections of OHCHR, the Board of Trustees
focuses its attention on broadly guiding the operationalization of the Fund by providing
policy advice.
6.
The Board of Trustees held its first session in Geneva in November 2013 and was
briefed on the OHCHR approach to UPR follow-up as well as on the support provided to a
number of States which had been funded by the Voluntary Fund for UPR Implementation.
7.
The Board of Trustees held its second session in Mexico City in February 2014,
during which it reviewed the projects to be funded from the Voluntary Fund for UPR
Implementation in 2014. The Board of Trustees noted with satisfaction that a number of
projects to be implemented during 2014 were geared towards bringing about tangible
results on the ground. The Board of Trustees emphasized the importance of ensuring the
sustainability of the impact, and of active civil society involvement in UPR follow-up.
8.
The Board of Trustees also held discussions with OHCHR on the newly revitalized
OHCHR strategic vision for more integrated, proactive and systematic UPR follow-up. The
Board of Trustees welcomed the ongoing efforts of OHCHR to design such a strategy, and
provided OHCHR with advice and guidance thereon.
B.
OHCHR strategic vision for UPR follow-up and the Fund:
going forward
9.
Over the past two years, OHCHR has been developing the capacity to provide
increased support to States in their efforts to implement the outcome of the UPR, including
through the operationalization of the Voluntary Fund for UPR Implementation. This effort
has included an integrated approach to supporting implementation of recommendations
emanating from all the international human rights mechanisms.
10.
Building on lessons learned, OHCHR is in the process of revitalizing a strategic
vision for UPR follow-up that is more proactive, systematic and results-oriented. This
newly revitalized strategy for UPR follow-up will seek to enable OHCHR to provide more
effective support to States on the ground, whether directly or through ensuring the
integration of support in United Nations Country Team programming on UPR follow-up, to
enable States to achieve concrete results for the promotion and protection of human rights.
In the strategic vision, the role of OHCHR will be defined as “a clearing house” as
requested by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 16/21.
11.
The documentation of best practices is also an important priority in this new
strategy. It is vital that good practices on follow-up should be made available as widely as
possible. The Fund for UPR Implementation will therefore continue to fund the
documentation of good practices emerging from the implementation of technical assistance
projects and which could be replicated in other countries. Systematic documentation of
good practices on follow-up to the projects and of effective project management
methodologies by recipients of moneys from the Fund will constitute an important
precondition for support.
III. Activities to be supported by the Fund during 2014
12.
A project to strengthen the capacity of the national authorities in the Republic of
Moldova to combat discrimination will be supported by the Voluntary Fund for UPR
Implementation, in particular concerning the National Council to Prevent and Combat
Discrimination, judges and prosecutors, and other stakeholders, including lawyers, health
service providers, civil society organizations, and, especially, men and women from
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