A/HRC/44/19 July 2019 in cooperation with the National Police College of Jamaica, among other things, to build the capacity, knowledge and skills of police recruits to understand, identify and respond to acts of discrimination and to build their legal literacy and procedural awareness of the child protection system. Additionally, the trainings sought to shift attitudes and biases among police recruits towards marginalized and vulnerable groups, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons, persons living with HIV/AIDS and persons with disabilities. 41. The Human Rights Adviser in Jamaica also organized a workshop for the Jamaican judiciary to present the online training platform on international human rights. The workshop was organized in collaboration with the Judicial Education Institute of Jamaica and the Court Management Services and was attended by the judges at all levels, including the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The workshop presented the main elements of the training course and provided guidance on how trainers and judges can use the online platform as a consultation tool. During the training, the online course was handed over officially to the Judicial Education Institute and one administrator was assigned to manage the site and to provide access to all members of the judiciary. 42. As part of a Voluntary Fund project in Peru, the OHCHR Regional Office for South America received technical support to develop an intersectoral protocol that identifies the key phases for the preparation of reports and the implementation of recommendations, with a special emphasis on the implementation of recommendations from the universal periodic review. The protocol was widely disseminated among different stakeholders, such as the ombudsman’s office and civil society organizations, and it will allow for a better implementation of the universal periodic review and other human rights mechanisms’ recommendations. The Voluntary Fund also allowed the review of implementation of the National Human Rights Plan for 2018–2021, including in light of the recommendations of the third cycle of the universal periodic review and the 2030 Agenda. 43. In Uruguay, the Voluntary Fund was used to create a course on the integration of human rights recommendations into action plans of State institutions. More than 90 State officers, mainly members of the institutions that compose the national mechanism for implementation, reporting and follow-up, were trained on how to effectively integrate the recommendations into planning processes within their institutions. The course was facilitated by the Human Rights Adviser and co-organized by the United Nations Country Team, OHCHR, the Institute of Public Policies on Human Rights of MERCOSUR, the National Secretariat for Human Rights and the Uruguayan International Cooperation Agency. 44. The Voluntary Fund was also used in Uruguay to strengthen capacities of national justice operators. Around 200 judicial operators (judges, prosecutors and public defenders) were trained on international human rights standards and soft law and were equipped with better tools to implement international human rights recommendations. Finally, the Voluntary Fund supported the launching and implementation of a project focused on the structural transformations needed for the fulfilment of the 2030 Agenda. The project, led by the Resident Coordinator’s Office and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and aimed at strengthening the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in highincome countries, was part of a joint process among United Nations agencies, academia, government, the private sector and civil society. 45. Financing from the Voluntary Fund allowed the Regional Office for Central America to continue to support the Government of Costa Rica in building capacity of members of the Inter-Institutional Commission for the Monitoring and Implementation of International Human Rights Obligations to finalize the installation of a national database developed by Paraguay. The Regional Office will continue to support the Government in implementing the recommendations of the international human rights mechanisms through the action plan developed by the Inter-Institutional Commission. 46. With the support of the Voluntary Fund, activities in Mauritania were aimed at the implementation of the national action plan for the implementation of recommendations from the 2015 universal periodic review, developed by the Commissariat for Human Rights, Humanitarian Action and Relations with Civil Society in 2018. In March 2019, the OHCHR Office in Mauritania organized a training session on formulating and adopting human rights and Sustainable Development Goals indicators. Members of the interministerial technical committee on drafting State reports and other focal points on 9

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