A/HRC/15/56 2. Specific 24. Human rights mechanisms can bilaterally or multilaterally decide to establish cooperation arrangements that go beyond the minimum agreed at the international level, taking into account the needs and development of each human rights mechanism. C. Cooperation between regional human rights mechanisms 25. The United Nations, through OHCHR, can facilitate the dialogue between regional and subregional human rights bodies by providing a global perspective and sharing lessons learned and best practices. In addition, OHCHR can support the process by providing technical assistance. Cooperation between regional human rights mechanisms can contribute to the elaboration of cooperation strategies between international, regional and subregional mechanisms. D. Role of national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations 26. NHRIs and NGOs play an important role in monitoring the application of international human rights standards and following up on the implementation of judgments, decisions and recommendations emanating from United Nations and regional human rights mechanisms. Both international and regional human rights mechanisms have encouraged NHRIs to interact with them on a regular basis.5 NHRIs and NGOs also contribute to the strengthening of the capacity of States to ensure implementation of international human rights norms. It is therefore necessary to include them as full participants in the cooperation process between human rights mechanisms. E. Challenges 1. Insufficient resources 27. International, regional and subregional human rights mechanisms, as well as NHRIs and NGOs have very limited human and financial resources. 28. Cooperation strategies should take into account the limited financial resources of stakeholders. The United Nations, regional organizations and governments, should allocate resources to allow effective and sustained cooperation between international, regional and subregional human rights mechanisms. Donor support initiatives could contribute to the achievement of this goal. 2. Lack of knowledge of international and regional human rights mechanisms 29. The participants shared the view that international, regional, subregional and national human rights protection systems are unknown to some relevant actors and the general public at the regional and national level. It was thus suggested that international and regional human rights mechanisms, together with NHRIs and NGOs, should undertake public awareness-raising about human rights mechanisms and international human rights standards. Information on the functioning of international, regional, subregional and national mechanisms and how to have access to them needs to be broadly disseminated. Translation of official documents and case law into local languages will help this dissemination, as well as cooperation at the technical level between human rights 5 8 See para. 47 below.