A/HRC/27/20 to support by-laws to engage men in maternal health issues. The districts came up with their own action plans, and some innovations, such as pregnancy mapping and door-to-door mobilization, as well as follow-up. Furthermore, the technical guidance is explicitly mentioned in the Consolidated District Priority Interventions for Maternal and Newborn Health 2014–2015. 46. The technical guidance has also contributed to the strategic planning carried out by donors. Staff at the Danish International Development Agency pointed out that the technical guidance was helping in the formulation of the next cycle of support (for 2015 to 2020) for the health sector in one of the African countries where the Agency is active. For example, the standards of availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality that are highlighted in the technical guidance, as well as in other human rights instruments, helped the Agency to consider how its support could contribute to reducing discrimination and strengthening broader accessibility to facilities, goods and services. D. Convening multi-stakeholder processes 47. As a result of the collaboration between organizations in developing the technical guidance, OHCHR, PMNCH, WHO and UNFPA are working together to strengthen the application of rights-based approaches to maternal, newborn and child health, including to related sexual and reproductive health issues. As part of this joint work, a regional workshop was held in Lilongwe from 18 to 20 November 2013, bringing together representatives of governments, national human rights institutions, United Nations country teams and civil society, from four countries, namely Malawi, South Africa, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania. The aim of the workshop was to build the capacity of participants to assess their legal and policy environment, in order to integrate human rights into laws, policies and programmes relating to maternal, sexual and reproductive health, and newborn and child health, and to understand the implications for States in the areas of planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring, review and remedies. 48. At the workshop, participants worked in country groups to identify specific action points to follow up on in their countries; these were considered strategic opportunities for applying rights-based approaches in the areas of maternal and child health. The action points included efforts to integrate human rights into revisions of existing policies relating to sexual and reproductive health, efforts to bring human rights analysis into the UNDAF process, and providing human rights expertise to law reform processes. Following on from this workshop, efforts are under way to produce situational assessments on human rights and maternal and child health, including sexual and reproductive health, which can be used as inputs into national planning and programming processes through multi-stakeholder initiatives. 49. In Mexico, OHCHR is involved in efforts to implement the technical guidance, in close collaboration with the Committee for the Promotion of Safe Motherhood; these are focused on the States of Jalisco and Oaxaca. In May 2014, a range of stakeholders gathered, including from the Government, the legislature, human rights institutions, civil society organizations and academia, to raise awareness about the technical guidance, with a view to developing an implementation plan. The guidance was presented to the authorities and, as a result, in Jalisco, an agreement has been reached to establish an intersectoral committee. E. Development of tools 50. Since the adoption of the technical guidance in September 2012, numerous stakeholders have pointed out the need for more detailed guidance. In response to these 13

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