A/HRC/10/26 page 6 (b) The Fund collaborates actively with various actors, including other United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, international and regional organizations, human rights treaty bodies and special procedures, Governments, parliamentarians, civil society and communitybased organizations, religious leaders and other decision makers to support efforts aimed at protecting the rights of women and adolescent girls worldwide, including the right to reproductive health. In particular, in 2007, UNFPA partnered with the Special Rapporteur on the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health to organize an expert meeting that brought together United Nations treaty body representatives, special procedures and specialized agencies, together with non-governmental organizations and international experts, to discuss experiences of working on reproductive rights and future strategies for mainstreaming reproductive health issues into their work further and for collaboration. (c) The Fund listed various United Nations treaty bodies (the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the Committee on the Rights of the Child) and special procedures (the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences) working in the area of reproductive rights, and stated that it is important that the various mechanisms inform and contribute to each other’s work, cross-fertilizing their recommendations, and using their own mandates to bring coherence to their jurisprudence and advance the international human rights protection system. (d) The Fund suggested that United Nations agencies, special procedures and non-governmental organizations should use the general recommendations and concluding comments and observations from the treaty bodies and special procedures as well as the recommendations from the universal periodic review in their work to promote and protect reproductive rights. However, for this purpose there is a need for the work of the human rights system, including its jurisprudence, to be communicated more widely, in particular to the United Nations system in the field. For example, United Nations country teams and the Resident Coordinator system should develop systematic procedures to support this dissemination of information as well as the implementation efforts by Governments and civil society. (e) Non-governmental organizations have been instrumental in bringing reproductive rights to the attention of treaty bodies. At the international, regional and national levels, these organizations are key partners in the effort to promote and protect reproductive rights, such as in their work to promote reproductive health rights through various strategies, including working with treaty bodies and regional bodies by submitting amicus briefs, engaging with special procedures, advocating for Government compliance with treaty body recommendations, working with national partners on equality and reproductive health issues, including providing training and capacity-building for lawyers and campaigners, and providing research, analysis and tools for human rights education. However, UNFPA also noted that challenges to effective collaboration still remain for non-governmental organizations, including resource constraints that often make it difficult for them, particularly those from the South, to be present at the sessions of the Human Rights Council and its committees and to present oral reports.