A/HRC/26/41 (c) The Council should take steps to enhance support for national human rights institutions, such as increasing funding for existing or new staff and for the exchange of knowledge among similarly situated national human rights institutions; (d) There is a need to find ways of instituting tracking, monitoring and peerreview mechanisms, such as through the negotiation of an enhanced Declaration on the Right to Development and the mainstreaming of the right to development in the universal periodic review process; (e) South-South cooperation in the area of human rights, both in its regular and triangular forms, should be deepened by supporting greater human rights cooperation among developing or similarly-situated countries, while using existing capacity in one country to help others. The Technical Aid Corps scheme of Nigeria is an excellent example of this form of existing South-South cooperation that can be deepened and expanded with the support of the Council; (f) Human rights education should be deepened and enhanced by ensuring that it becomes much more of a two-way street than is currently the case; (g) The global infrastructure for cooperation in the human rights field needs to be strengthened by: (i) Greater and more effective international human rights cooperation to better protect migrants around the world, for which there is an urgent need; (ii) Encouraging the universal ratification of human rights instruments and, as far as possible, the inclusion of all States and actors in the process of international cooperation in the human rights field; (iii) Consolidating and synchronizing State reporting to reduce “reporting fatigue” among States; (iv) Increasing the resources available to the subsidiary bodies of the Council and its special procedures; (v) Coordinating and unifying almost all visits by special procedure mandate holders to a particular country, in order to reduce the amount of resources and time host States spend cooperating with them; (vi) Implementing a voluntary opt-out system for the issuance of standing invitations to special procedures; (vii) Improving coordination between the Council and regional bodies, and among regional bodies themselves, by encouraging the establishment of focal points in each body to concentrate on this task and enhancing the use of technology in pursuit of this goal; (viii) Strengthening the universal periodic review mechanism by mandating the Troika to arrange an informal meeting with the relevant national nongovernmental organizations and national human rights institutions immediately before hearings in the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review and making more practical efforts to include other stakeholders, such as the regional human rights institutions, in the process; (ix) Providing more resources for special rapporteurs to follow up on their recommendations; (x) Developing detailed guidelines and/or a model report to assist States in the preparation of universal periodic review mid-term implementation reports, and utilizing an opt-out system for encouraging the submission of such reports; 17

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