A/HRC/30/28 6. Noting that the report prepared by OHCHR pursuant to Council resolution 23/19 was not intended as a blueprint for policy, the Chief of the Americas, Europe and Central Asia Branch gave examples of projects and programmes carried out with national partners across the world, from constitutional reform and transitional justice to the development of human rights indicator frameworks and curricula for human rights education. He emphasized that integrating human rights did not mean merely acknowledging the contents of human rights standards and recommendations when policies were being prepared. The aim was to go far deeper and translate human rights obligations into real and effective change. 7. He stressed that broad-based participation and cohesion were vital components at every stage of policy development. In this regard, the human rights implications of national policies had to be addressed by government ministries, civil servants and parliamentary committees. These processes, however, also needed to include judicial bodies, transitional justice mechanisms, security institutions, statistical systems, national human rights institutions, institutions involving the fight against discrimination, the private sector and— perhaps most crucially—civil society. The examples given in the report were concrete ones and were intended to be an inspiration for States that were looking for good practices to emulate in their own planning and programming. Mr. Magazzeni acknowledged with appreciation the important role of the Board of Trustees of the Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights in providing invaluable advice and support to OHCHR as it continued to develop its technical cooperation programme. II. Contributions by panellists 8. In his opening remarks as moderator of the discussion, Mr. Paulauskas introduced the panellists and highlighted their considerable experience and expertise in the field of human rights’ implementation and policy development. He said that the panel discussion was very timely, as 2015 marked the global celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations. He added that since the signing of the Charter of the United Nations in 1945, human rights had constituted one of the three pillars of the Organization, along with peace and development. He said that the Charter was based on the notion that there could be no peace without development, no development without peace, and neither without respect for human rights. He further recalled that during the seventieth session of the General Assembly the international community would debate, articulate and adopt a set of sustainable development goals, to follow on from the progress made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The post-2015 agenda offered a unique opportunity for the international community to renew its commitment to achieving development through the realization of human rights. In this context, and as an opening to the discussion, he asked the panellists to reflect on the following topics: first, how human rights obligations can be translated into real and effective change; second, what the most effective mechanisms are for achieving that goal; and third, how regional and subregional cooperation could be strengthened through a comparative process. 9. He said that Paraguay was engaged in pioneering work in systematizing the implementation of recommendations from the international human rights mechanisms as a basis for national policymaking. In particular, the system for monitoring recommendations, a database called “SIMORE”, was an important public tool that facilitated access to information on the status of implementation of recommendations. Acknowledging the innovative aspects of that system, he invited Mr. Cárdenas to explain the main steps in the development of that tool and to highlight how it had helped strengthen the Government’s capacity to make human rights an integral part of national planning and programming. 3