A/HRC/25/19 78. OHCHR contributed to the implementation of the policy on human rights screening of United Nations personnel, endorsed by the Secretary-General to ensure that the Secretariat does not recruit or deploy any senior staff member who has violated international human rights or humanitarian law. OHCHR co-chairs, jointly with Office of Human Resources Management, the Secretariat-wide working group on screening of United Nations personnel, and actively participated in the review process of the policy by accumulating lessons learned, including challenges and initial results. 79. Two years after its adoption, the human rights due diligence policy on United Nations support to non-United Nations security forces has proved its value as a tool to assist principled and effective engagement in situations where risks of serious human rights violations by regional and national security forces with which the United Nations is partnering are high. The policy has garnered strong support from Member States and civil society actors, and has been frequently referred to by the Security Council. OHCHR supported the implementation of this critical policy by developing additional guidelines, advising United Nations peace missions, United Nations country teams and individual United Nations entities on the development of procedures and risk assessments, and by facilitating lessons learning. 2. Engagement in humanitarian action 80. In May, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and I presented a joint paper to the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on the protection of human rights in humanitarian crises, bearing in mind the conclusions made in the report of the SecretaryGeneral’s Internal Review Panel on United Nations action in Sri Lanka. The Committee consequently included human rights protection as one of its five priorities for the period 2013-2015. Furthermore, human rights protection has been included as a standing item of the agenda of the Committee Working Group for 2014-2015. 81. OHCHR also contributed to the Transformative Agenda protocols, and committed a number of staff to the inter-agency rapid response mechanisms. OHCHR staff members are applying the new arrangements for the humanitarian programme cycle to the 2014 strategic planning for humanitarian responses to a number of crises. 82. OHCHR field presences continued to lead protection clusters in Haiti, Mauritania and Palestine, and to co-lead in the Pacific. They also actively engaged in supporting humanitarian coordinators and country teams, as well as protection clusters or protection forums, through the work of human rights field presences (in Mali and Yemen) or rapid response teams (in the Central African Republic, Mali and Myanmar). In November, OHCHR sent a team to the Philippines to support the United Nations Resident Coordinator and the country team in the aftermath of typhoon Yolanda. F. Human rights mechanisms and development of international law 1. Treaty bodies 83. Following the extension of the intergovernmental process for strengthening the human rights treaty body system, ultimately until February 2014, OHCHR continued to provide support to the co-facilitators of the process. In addition to facilitating informal consultations with all treaty bodies, civil society and the Human Rights Council, OHCHR organized, in April 2013, a workshop on developing the capacity of States to report to treaty bodies and to follow-up on concluding observations. In order to foster synergy between the treaty bodies and the intergovernmental process, the annual meeting of the chairpersons of treaty bodies was organized in New York, in May. Furthermore, my Office finalized a comprehensive cost assessment of the treaty body system as requested by the 15