A/HRC/41/28 organizations and international experts, participated to define a road map for cooperation and partnership between OHCHR and the Assembly. 20. On 28 June 2018, the Fund supported a joint workshop held by OHCHR and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the IPU headquarters in Geneva. The event, entitled “Parliaments as guardians of human rights: the case for strong parliamentary human rights committees and the development of international principles to support their work”, included Members of Parliament and civil society organizations from diverse geographical locations. The findings of the study on the contribution of parliaments to the work of the Human Rights Council and its universal periodic review, including the draft principles on parliaments and human rights (A/HRC/38/25) were presented. The workshop enabled participants to engage in discussions on the rationale for having a set of international principles to guide the work of parliamentary human rights committees. Diverse regional perspectives and experiences were shared relating to the role of parliamentary human rights committees in the international human rights system, particularly the universal periodic review and treaty body system; parliamentary oversight of government policy; and the critical relationship between parliaments and national human rights institutions. Participating parliamentarians agreed to disseminate and discuss the draft principles in their respective jurisdictions and use them as a guide to strengthening the mandate of parliamentary human rights committees. 21. On 28 June 2018, within the framework of the thirty-eighth session of the Human Rights Council, a side event was organized by the OHCHR Universal Periodic Review Branch, IPU and the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, and co-sponsored by the Permanent Missions of Ecuador, Italy, Maldives, Morocco, the Philippines, Romania and Spain. The panel was composed of Members of Parliament from Burkina Faso, Chile, Togo, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Uzbekistan, as well as academics and representatives of civil society organizations and OHCHR. The event allowed for the sharing of good practices in relation to parliamentary engagement with human rights and participants advocated for awareness-raising about efforts to establish or strengthen national parliamentary human rights committees, drawing on the good practices of various parliamentary systems and reflecting on the draft principles on parliaments and human rights. A representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean stated that the Assembly had already committed in its annual meeting to endorse and advocate for the draft principles. 22. Other events supported through the Fund in 2018 included two subregional workshops on the universal periodic review for the sharing of good practices in terms of preparation and reviews and in the implementation of and follow-up to recommendations. In these workshops, OHCHR pledged to continue to support parliaments in their engagement in the universal periodic review process, in close cooperation with IPU, the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions and the United Nations Development Fund. 23. The first subregional workshop was targeted at English-speaking States in Africa and was held in Entebbe, Uganda, on 23 and 24 April 2018. It was organized with the support of the Government of Uganda and in close cooperation with the African Union, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Uganda Human Rights Commission (the national human rights institution). The workshop was an opportunity not only for representatives of Member States but also for regional organizations, national human rights institutions, non-governmental organizations and United Nations country teams to become more familiar with policies and action concerning the universal periodic review and other human rights mechanisms. 24. Topics for discussion during the workshop included: policies and practices in relation to the universal periodic review; the establishment of interministerial structures and processes as national mechanisms for reporting and follow-up; and creating synergy between the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and recommendations of human rights mechanisms. Good practices and challenges in relation to the universal periodic review were shared between representatives of different regions. Panel discussions were held on strengthening cooperation between national human rights institutions, civil society organizations, regional human rights mechanisms and the United Nations country 6