A/HRC/7/69 page 54 Principal conclusion: Implementing the harmonised approach to NHRIs engagement with Treaty Body Processes 6. Participants shared and reflected on practical experiences of engagement since the Berlin meeting. On the basis of these discussions, they endorsed the harmonised approach to NHRI engagement with Treaty Body processes agreed upon in Berlin (attached to these conclusions) and recommended that NHRIs and treaty bodies work towards its implementation. The increased communication and sharing of practices between different UN human rights treaty bodies on engaging NHRIs was welcomed, and the Inter Committee Meeting of Treaty Bodies was encouraged to continue to focus on harmonising their approach working methods and interaction with NHRIs, and prioritise this discussion at the next Inter Committee Meeting of Treaty Bodies. Encouraging participation 7. Treaty Body Secretariats and the National Institutions Unit of the OHCHR were asked to actively invite and encourage NHRI’s to participate in the UN treaty body processes and to provide them well in advance with information on the annual programme of consideration of state party reports as well as with summaries of previous recommendations by the international human rights system by country. Lists of Secretariat focal points for each Committee would also be made available. 8. They were also asked to provide guidelines on interaction with UN human rights Treaty Bodies, rules of procedure, development of reports by NHRIs and NHRI follow-up to concluding observations. The use of web technology to inform and familiarise NHRI’s and others with these procedures was supported. 9. The availability of an ICC Geneva Representative who could speak on behalf of A status NHRIs in UN human rights treaty body sessions was noted and supported. 10. The forthcoming publication by the German Institute for Human Rights of a Hand-Book on NHRI’s interacting with the treaty body system was welcomed. NHRI and Treaty Bodies: Good Practices 11. The good practices shared by NHRIs concerning their interaction with Treaty Body secretariat staff ahead of the session; with individual members of the Treaty Bodies, their participation in informal/formal sessions and then the follow-up action at the national level to treaty body concluding observations were commended. Particular emphasis was placed on the need to envisage follow up mechanisms by NHRIs to Treaty Bodies recommendations in order to ensure oversight to Government action - acknowledging also that it is the State that has the primary responsibility for follow up. This included bringing together various national actors, such as Parliament, engaging the media, advocating for implementation, monitoring the State party’s response, and providing feedback to the relevant Treaty Body. Especially important was also the contribution of NHRIs to the identification of the list of issues to be discussed with the State party prior to the consideration of the report as well as their support in sharpening the focus of the concluding observations.