A/HRC/39/20 7. OHCHR provides technical and legal assistance to national human rights institutions and other stakeholders, in particular regarding constitutional and legislative frameworks relating to the establishment, nature, functions, powers and responsibilities of institutions. It also conducts and supports comparative analyses, technical cooperation projects, needs assessments and evaluation missions to establish national human rights institutions or strengthen their capacity to discharge their mandate effectively. 8. During the period under review, OHCHR provided advice and/or assistance aimed at establishing and/or strengthening human rights institutions in Afghanistan, Algeria, Burkina Faso, Chad, Colombia, the Congo, the Cook Islands, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, the Russian Federation, South Sudan, Timor-Leste, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan and the State of Palestine. 9. In some cases, this assistance was provided jointly with United Nations agencies, funds and programmes and other partners. 1. Africa 10. During the period under review, the OHCHR regional offices for Central, East, Southern and West Africa, the OHCHR country offices in Burundi, Guinea and Uganda, the human rights advisers to the United Nations country teams in Chad, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, the Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sierra Leone, and the human rights components of the United Nations peace missions in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia,2 Mali, Somalia, South Sudan and the Sudan (in Darfur) continued, in consultation with OHCHR, to provide advice on and assistance in the establishment and/or strengthening of national human rights institutions. 11. During the period under review, OHCHR provided legislative advice to Chad, the Congo and Djibouti for the establishment of a national human rights institution in compliance with the Paris Principles. 12. In February and March 2018, OHCHR provided technical advice to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights and the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics on how to use treaty body recommendations and good statistical practices to include data on indigenous peoples, persons with albinism and intersex persons in the census of 2019. OHCHR provided financial support to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights for the organization of a retreat in April 2018 on election-related sexual and gender-based violence. In June 2018, OHCHR provided substantive support for a meeting between the Commission and the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics on data-collection methodology for indicators of Sustainable Development Goal 16 (16.1.1, 16.1.3, 16.3.1 and 16.10.1). 13. In December 2017, OHCHR provided technical support to the Independent National Commission on Human Rights of Liberia for the development of a five-year strategic plan. OHCHR also continued to provide technical and financial support for the development of a complaint-handling mechanism that was launched in January 2018. It also provided technical support to the Commission for the recruitment of three regional coordinators. 14. During the period under review, OHCHR provided legal and technical advice to the Independent National Human Rights Commission of Madagascar. It conducted 22 training sessions for the Commission’s staff and provided financial and technical support for the Commission to conduct information campaigns on access to justice and remedies for victims of human rights violations. In March 2018, OHCHR provided technical support for the Commission’s mid-term evaluation to enhance its compliance with the Paris Principles. 15. In April 2018, OHCHR organized a workshop to strengthen the capacity of the National Human Rights Commission of Mali to discharge its mandate in compliance with the Paris Principles. OHCHR also financially supported the participation of a resource person from the Network of African National Human Rights Institutions in that workshop. 2 4 The human rights component of the United Nations Mission in Liberia was closed on 31 March 2018.