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focus on assisting States to fulfil their commitments to implement priority thematic
human rights recommendations accepted during their universal periodic review and
those from other international human rights mechanisms.
47.
OHCHR will continue to strive to share with States and other United Nations
partners several tools that are available to help integrate and mainstream the
recommendations of international human rights mechanisms into their respective
programmes, such as the United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks and
national development action plans.
48.
It is worth noting that OHCHR, with the advice of the Board of Trustees of the
Fund, constantly reviews and updates its strategic vision for follow-up support in
order to provide more effective support to States in an effort to facilitate results on the
ground in terms of the promotion and protection of human rights. While OHCHR
continues to take a holistic and integrated approach to its follow-up support, it seeks,
through the use of money from the Voluntary Fund, to: (a) provide capacity-building
to States for them to prepare meaningful national reports on implementation, through
the provision of training across the spectrum of the government actors concerned; and
(b) enable States to meet their commitments by focusing on supporting them to
implement key thematic priority recommendations. In that regard, it is important to
integrate recommendations from international human rights mechanisms into the
national planning processes; to utilize international human rights recommendations
for early warning and conflict prevention by integrating them into the Human Rights
Up Front initiative; and to ensure that the recommendations become a crucial element
in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals by integrating them into
the relevant national implementation frameworks and action plans.
49.
It is also important to encourage and secure the active participation of other
stakeholders in the follow-up process, as that is key to achieving a sustained impact.
Hence, various stakeholders should be able to benefit, either directly or indirectly,
from the Voluntary Fund by becoming involved in the technical cooperation and
assistance programme for the States that are beneficiaries of the Fund.
50.
In order to provide technical support and assistance for follow-up more
effectively, it is imperative that more contributions be made to the Voluntary Fund.
With additional resources, the Fund will be able to support OHCHR to ensure the
sustainability of support to States in implementing the recommendations of the
international human rights mechanisms.
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