A/HRC/4/94 page 7 22. The Board also enquired about engagement with IMF and was briefed on the related work on the follow-up to the Plan of Action in the area of building partnerships. Currently, the Office was focusing on engagement with the World Bank. VII. UPDATE ON RECENT DEVELOPMENTS WITHIN THE UNITED NATIONS 23. The Board had been following the United Nations reform initiatives with keen interest and advising the Office on the implications for the technical cooperation programme. At its twenty-fifth session, it reviewed recent developments in the United Nations, including with regard to the Human Rights Council, the High-level Panel on System-wide Coherence, the Peacebuilding Commission and the United Nations Democracy Fund. 24. The Board was particularly interested in the developments around the Human Rights Council, including the discussion on the universal periodic review mechanism and its normative basis and resource implications. The Board pointed out the value of the achievements made over the last 60 years in the field of human rights. The Human Rights Council should be seen as an integral part of the larger United Nations machinery that included the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Peacebuilding Commission and other bodies. 25. With regard to the High-level Panel on System-wide Coherence, a stronger focus on mainstreaming human rights in development activities was advocated. OHCHR was called upon to serve as a centre of excellence, providing normative support to countries, and the role of the resident coordinator would be strengthened. The Board was pleased to learn that terms of reference for resident coordinators were currently being revised to include human rights and that an induction programme for resident coordinators was being prepared. The Board stressed that the time had come to turn rhetoric into action. The accountability of resident coordinators was of key importance. Training, involvement in the selection process, and the development of tools were concrete steps to be taken in this regard. VIII. SEMINAR ON RECOMMENDATIONS OF UNITED NATIONS TREATY BODIES 26. The Board of Trustees had in recent years held discussions with human rights treaty bodies, through the meetings of chairpersons of human rights treaty bodies and the inter-committee meetings of human rights treaty bodies, on the implementation of recommendations of treaty bodies at the national level. United Nations specialized agencies, funds and programmes had sought guidance on how their input into the treaty body system could result in the formulation of more concrete and implementable recommendations. They had also sought guidance on how they could assist at the operational level in the implementation of recommendations contained in concluding observations. Treaty bodies had also called on the specialized agencies, funds and programmes to assist them in their monitoring role and to support implementation of their recommendations. The seventeenth meeting of chairpersons of human rights treaty bodies held in June 2005 recommended the organization of a seminar for treaty body members, members of the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation, United Nations specialized agencies, funds and programmes and, if possible, representatives of United Nations field presences to discuss the format and substance of concluding observations and their implementation at the national level.