A/HRC/4/91 page 10 This development is in line with the ECOWAS Supplementary Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance of 2001, which stipulates that ECOWAS member States should create independent NHRIs and that the ECOWAS Secretariat should strengthen its capacity in that regard. The purpose of the Network, which was established on 10 November 2006, is to serve as a platform for strengthening the capacity of NHRIs to protect and promote human rights in West Africa. The Network is composed of all the West African NHRIs, both those deemed to be in compliance with the Paris Principles by the International Coordinating Committee of NHRIs and those which are not (the members are the institutions of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo). 32. The ECOWAS Executive Secretariat shall serve as a facilitator to the Network for an initial period of two to three years. After this start-up phase, it will continue to provide backstopping to the Network, which will have an independent secretariat. Workshops, training courses and advisory missions 33. OHCHR, with the human rights section of the United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS), is supporting the establishment of two human rights commissions: one based in Khartoum and entrenched in the Interim National Constitution of the Republic of the Sudan of 2005, and one for Southern Sudan, with its headquarters in Juba and incorporated in the Southern Sudan Interim Constitution. 34. OHCHR organized a consultation workshop on 8 May 2006, in cooperation with the Advisory Council for Human Rights and UNMIS, on the “Draft Bill of the National Human Rights Commission Act”. Attended by 56 representatives of civil society groups, lawyers, academics, parliamentarians, journalists and diplomatic missions, the objective of the workshop was to achieve broader consensus on the draft bill and provide an opportunity for a sharing of ideas. 35. OHCHR has assisted the Government with respect to the process of advising on the enabling legislation. An induction programme for the members of the Southern Sudan Human Rights Commission was organized in Juba, from 8 to 11 August 2006, with technical support from OHCHR. OHCHR, in cooperation with UNMIS, is in the process of facilitating a study tour in Uganda and South Africa for the newly appointed members of the Southern Sudan Human Rights Commission. 36. OHCHR, in cooperation with the United Nations Integrated Office in Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL), has been supporting the Government of Sierra Leone in the process of establishing its Human Rights Commission with respect to the provision of advisory services including the drafting of enabling legislation and the appointments process for the commissioners. The Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone Capacity Development Project is being elaborated in cooperation with UNIOSIL and aims at building the various capacities of the Human Rights Commission, namely: (i) to strengthen the structural and management capacity of the Commission; (ii) to develop and support the operational capacity of the Commission to deliver its services; and (iii) to support the implementation of the mandated functions of the Commission.