A/HRC/35/18 best practices in that regard, following up on that report. Legal provisions on human rights in the context of resettlement aimed particularly at the Roma community were included in the bill, including requirements for social inclusion, such as access to mainstream schooling and the labour market. The bill sent to the parliament also includes a number of safeguards in the context of evictions, which have not previously formed part of Serbian law. 25. The Government of Tajikistan, with the support of OHCHR, made considerable efforts to improve the inter-agency mechanism for the implementation of international human rights obligations, including by reviewing its regulations to expand the role of civil society. That included advocacy on enhancing the mechanism’s functions on monitoring and follow-up by appointing human rights focal points at the ministerial and municipal levels, launching and regularly updating the website of the commission on the implementation of international obligations in the field of human rights, and holding public consultations with civil society organizations. Furthermore, OHCHR advocacy has also resulted in the Government developing a comprehensive national action plan. 26. In the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the expert working group of the national mechanism for reporting and follow-up (the government intersectoral body) increased its skills and competence to coordinate State reporting and follow-up efforts. Through workshops, OHCHR helped the working group to acquire skills for clustering and prioritizing, as well as applying an integrated approach to the implementation of recommendations using the OHCHR human rights indicators framework. As a result, the working group has developed a tool to cluster all the recommendations and has started drafting an integrated implementation plan. Middle East and North Africa 27. In Iraq, OHCHR provided technical and other assistance to the Government in the preparation of reports under various human rights treaties. It also provided considerable support, capacity-building and technical advice to civil society organizations on shadow reporting, and to the national High Commission for Human Rights on submission of reports to treaty bodies. Iraq has not yet responded to the universal periodic review recommendation to develop an implementation action plan for the review recommendations. OHCHR negotiated with the Government of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq to hold a series of consultations with relevant stakeholders, including civil society, on developing an implementation action plan to implement the review recommendations that are relevant to the region pursuant to its jurisdiction. The action plan was due to be endorsed and launched in early 2017. 28. In Mauritania, the participation of women in the discussions on the effective implementation of universal periodic review recommendations and the drafting of the national development strategy 2016-2030 was reinforced through workshops with civil society, targeting women. As a result, human rights NGOs are aware of the relationship between human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals, the process of national prioritization and their relevance for the national development strategy 2016-2030. OHCHR provided ongoing training and capacity-building to the ministerial unit responsible for drafting that strategy and the consultants working on the different development assistance framework-related documents. As coordinator of the human rights and gender thematic group under the United Nations Development Assistance Framework, OHCHR raised United Nations colleagues’ awareness about human rights mainstreaming and initiated a joint meeting with the evaluation and monitoring group. Latin America and the Caribbean 29. In Argentina, OHCHR provided technical assistance to the Federal Human Rights Council to strengthen SIPEN, the national periodic reports system that is in place to monitor compliance with recommendations and reporting to human rights mechanisms. 30. During 2016, the human rights officer based in Barbados conducted seminars across the Eastern Caribbean for government officials and civil society on the United Nations international human rights mechanisms with a focus on the universal periodic review and the treaty bodies. The officer provided assistance on the establishment of a national 6