A/HRC/23/27 finalize its plan action based on an internal capacity assessment of the Commission conducted in 2011. 109. Under the capacity-building project of UNDP (see also paragraph 15 above) and the European Union to support the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission, in November 2012, a training session was held on international and African human rights mechanisms for the commissioners to enable them to cooperate with the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Expert advice was provided to support the Commission in the preparation and submission of its budget and for the procurement of equipment. B. United Nations Children’s Fund 110. UNICEF supported the development of a website for the national human rights institution of Mexico. 111. UNICEF Bolivia established a strategic partnership with the Office of the Ombudsman (Defensoria del Pueblo) of Bolivia (Plurinational State of) to implement activities relating to children’s and adolescents’ rights to participation. C. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 112. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs provided the Office of the Ombudsman of Colombia with support to develop activities for the benefit of vulnerable communities and communities affected by gross violations of humanitarian law. D. International Organization of la Francophonie 113. Within the framework of their standing partnership, OHCHR and the International Organization of la Francophonie developed and implemented joint capacity-building and technical cooperation programmes to establish and strengthen national human rights institutions in French-speaking countries, including Benin, Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, Haiti and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. V. Recommendations A. States 114. States are encouraged to implement the recommendations made by their national human rights institutions. 115. States are encouraged to establish a national human rights institution where none exists, and to strengthen the structures and independence of existing ones in order to enable the effective fulfilment of their mandate, taking into account the recommendations made by the Subcommittee on Accreditation and the advice provided by OHCHR. 116. States are encouraged to ensure that national human rights institutions are provided with a broad mandate to protect and promote all human rights, including economic, social and cultural rights, adequate powers of investigation into allegations of human rights violations, and with an authorization to visit detention centres. 17