A/HRC/41/41/Add.2 organizations should not be limited to non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council. 63. The coordination mechanism of the high-level political forum should identify spaces in which civil society shadow reports can be presented or shared with States to enable dialogue and further partnerships during the forum. 64. States and the coordination mechanism of the high-level political forum should ensure that the recommendations from civil society reports are taken into account when discussing and negotiating the ministerial declaration of the forum. 65. The outcomes of the voluntary national review and its presentation at the high-level political forum should be widely disseminated among civil society actors at the national and subnational levels. 66. Civil society should develop collaborative endeavours at the local level to identify the priority areas of people’s concerns and build their capacities to hold government institutions accountable. That includes raising levels of awareness and understanding of the 2030 Agenda among all civil society actors, including by breaking silos and building solidarity. 67. It is critical to strengthen the capacity of national human rights institutions to: monitor and hold Governments accountable for the lack of progress or adequate progress in the implementation of the commitments of the Sustainable Development Goals; identify patterns of discrimination and inequality that impede the promise of the Goals to “leave no one behind”; and utilize the quasi-judicial mandates of national human rights institutions to receive and redress complaints of human rights violations related to development. Box 3 Ensuring accountability for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its processes: examples of promising practice Monitoring and accountability functions are at the heart of the mandates of national human rights institutions in many countries.a In Argentina, the National Ombudsman developed a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation programme for the Sustainable Development Goals in January 2016. As part of the programme, the Ombudsman has initiated 57 investigations that are explicitly linked to the Goals, the results of which will be sent to the relevant national authorities and to the United Nations system on an annual basis.b The Danish Institute for Human Rights developed the Human Rights Guide to the Sustainable Development Goals and the SDG - Human Rights Data Explorer, which connect each target of the Goals to international human rights instruments and country recommendations, providing an integrated approach to implementation of the Goals. c Similarly, Paraguay established the SIMORE Plus platform, linking its follow-up mechanisms for international human rights recommendations to the Goals. The SIMORE Plus platform strengthens State capacity to monitor compliance with human rights recommendations and their connection to the Goals.d In 2019, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launched a pilot global data collection on the implementation of access-toinformation laws in 43 countries.e UNESCO is the custodian agency for indicator 16.10.2 of the Goals on access to information and is mandated to monitor and report on the number of countries that adopt and implement constitutional, statutory and/or policy guarantees for public access to information. The data collected through the pilot project will help UNESCO to map global progress towards realization of access-to-information rights and feed into voluntary national reviews. In 2017, the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs launched the Indigenous Navigator, a platform for and by indigenous peoples to systematically produce data and monitor the level of recognition and implementation of their rights. The Indigenous Navigator monitors both the implementation of relevant international human rights conventions, including International Labour Organization Convention No. 169 concerning indigenous and tribal peoples in independent countries, and essential aspects of the Goals. The project has been conducted in countries such as Bangladesh, the 10