A/HRC/26/24 on Disability and Development (23 September 2013). The Meeting’s outcome document stresses the importance of ensuring accessibility for and inclusion of persons with disabilities in all aspects of development, with a view to enhancing cooperation and to providing relevant technical assistance to Member States upon their request, and underlines the need to achieve full application and implementation of the international normative framework on disability and development by encouraging the ratification and implementation of the Convention. 6. Technical cooperation is an integral component of the work of OHCHR. Through technical cooperation and advisory services, OHCHR helps in identifying and addressing knowledge and capacity gaps by facilitating constructive dialogue and positive change. Sound and efficient technical cooperation and capacity-building programmes need to be based on thorough understanding and analysis of a specific human rights situation and the multifaceted challenges related to it. This is achieved through independent and credible monitoring activities in cooperation with all relevant stakeholders – allowing OHCHR, in cooperation with relevant stakeholders, to establish needs, to put such needs at the centre of the Office’s planning and to identify the most suitable strategies to achieve progress towards results. 7. The response by OHCHR to the requests for technical cooperation and advice, which is guided by the recommendations from treaty bodies and special procedures and from the universal periodic review, has seen a significant increase in recent years, including on the rights of persons with disabilities. 8. Countering discrimination, in particular racial discrimination, discrimination on the grounds of sex, religion and discrimination against others who are marginalized, is one of the thematic priorities in the OHCHR Management Plan 2014-17. Within this framework, the Office works towards increased compliance of national legislation, policies, programmes and institutions with international human rights standards to combat discrimination. 9. Since the adoption of the Convention in 2006, OHCHR has gradually stepped up its work on the rights of persons with disabilities. As part of its technical cooperation and advisory services, the Office supports efforts to ensure ratification of the Convention and compliance of national legislation, policies, programmes and institutions with the Convention and other instruments relevant to the promotion and protection of the rights of persons with disabilities. The Office also seeks to ensure that persons with disabilities claim their rights by supporting efforts to facilitate their use of national protection systems and their participation in public processes. At the international level, OHCHR seeks to ensure that States uphold their human rights obligations by supporting their engagement with the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and other relevant human rights mechanisms. Finally, OHCHR also seeks to ensure the integration of a human rights-based approach to disability in policies and programmes of the United Nations, including adequate attention and support to the promotion and protection of the rights of persons with disabilities. 10. In December 2011, six United Nations entities (the International Labour Organization (ILO), OHCHR, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), UNDP and the World Health Organization (WHO)) launched the UN Partnership to Promote the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Multi-Donor Trust Fund, administered by the UNDP Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office.7 The Partnership plays an important role in ensuring the effective use of 7 4 See http://mptf.undp.org/factsheet/fund/RPD00.