A/HRC/27/41 10. Technical assistance and capacity-building complement other key OHCHR functions, as set out in General Assembly resolution 48/141. 11. OHCHR engages directly with governments and actively cooperates with all relevant national stakeholders, such as ministries, parliaments, the judiciary, transitional justice mechanisms, security institutions, statistical and information systems, mechanisms for the protection of vulnerable groups and groups that are discriminated against, national human rights institutions, development actors and civil society organizations, to support their role in drawing up and assessing the impact of national policies. 12. Policy processes should be based on a human rights-based approach which upholds the universality, inalienability, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of all human rights and ensures that decisions and objectives relating to those processes are achieved through participation and inclusion, the rule of law and accountability, nondiscrimination and transparency. 13. Effective national policies based on human rights align the priorities and goals of the State with the conditions for its population to enjoy all human rights. The experience gathered over the past 20 years by OHCHR demonstrates that the active and meaningful participation of all sectors of society in debating and developing policies and programmes affecting the population is critical for the success of such processes. In that context, the aim of technical cooperation is thus also to ensure that policy processes and outcomes empower rights holders to assert and claim their rights, and to assist duty bearers in ensuring that those rights are enjoyed by all. 14. Technical cooperation is a vehicle to support States’ compliance with their human rights obligations and their follow-up to recommendations made by human rights mechanisms in that regard. Technical cooperation projects are results oriented; they are designed on the basis of dialogue with all relevant stakeholders. 15. Over the years, OHCHR has been providing increasing assistance to United Nations country teams to integrate human rights into their programming strategies, including in the context of joint projects, and to promote a coordinated and coherent United Nations systemwide human rights approach to technical cooperation. 16. OHCHR also supports regional and subregional organizations in strengthening arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights and in exchanging views on good practices and lessons learned. Such comparative processes strengthen regional cooperation and demonstrate the viability of strategies and the achievability of results. 17. Since the creation of the mandate of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR has been working closely with States in support of their efforts to further the enjoyment of human rights for all. Examples of that work are human rights assessments; advisory services, including technical advice on institution building and strengthening legislation and policies; training of trainers; awareness initiatives; national workshops; dialogue facilitation; provision of documentation, publications and web tools; and sharing of good practices from other countries. 18. OHCHR, including through its field presences, promotes inclusive national ownership and sustainability of support efforts. 19. The Board of Trustees which oversees both the Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights and the universal periodic review (UPR) Voluntary Fund for Financial and Technical Assistance, two key financial sources of OHCHR technical assistance, advises the Office on policy and strategic orientation with 4