A/HRC/45/15 180,000 communities throughout the country, including in rural areas. From the centres, public servants visited localities and held assemblies for community planning. The objectives of the citizens’ assemblies were to promote informed, organized and democratic community participation in order to carry out participatory diagnoses and to solve priority problems in the locality. 65. In terms of executing social welfare policy, the Government sought to generate interlinked development processes. The Ministry of Welfare’s programmes were based on the following actions: prioritizing attention to people living in areas with a majority indigenous and Afro-Mexican population, areas with a high or very high degree of marginalization and areas with high levels of violence; providing economic and in-kind support directly without intermediaries; facilitating the integration of a single census of beneficiaries for the implementation of cross-cutting actions by various agencies; identifying the beneficiaries and geographic location of the population’s needs; and ensuring that every programme had specific mechanisms for community participation and social oversight. 66. The purpose of the Citizen’s Budget initiative was to inform citizens in a clear and transparent manner how public resources were used. The Citizen’s Budget explained in a simple way how the federal budget was prepared. In 2020, a version in Nahuatl had been included, for the first time, as it was the most widely spoken indigenous language in the country. Also in 2020, an English version had been presented to promote feedback on Mexican initiatives at the international level. Mexico was the first country to join the international standard for open budget data, which was promoted by the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency in collaboration with the World Bank’s BOOST initiative. 67. The Financial Intelligence Unit of Mexico had taken measures to trace and identify illicit assets, and to intensify international cooperation in that regard. The Unit was a member of the Egmont Group, which shared information with other countries’ financial intelligence units on the prevention, investigation and combating of money-laundering. The Government had also signed 43 memorandums of understanding with other countries on financial intelligence exchange related to money-laundering and financing of terrorism. 68. The Government of the Philippines provided information regarding its national-level practices, including regarding its National Strategy for Financial Inclusion, the processes related to preparing its long-term development policies (AmBisyon Natin 2040), public participation in the budget process, and work on ensuring fiscal transparency. 69. The Government of the Russian Federation reported that when financing development projects, it was guided by the priority needs of the partner countries. That approach was based on the concept note on the State policy of the Russian Federation on international development assistance, which had been confirmed through a Presidential Decree in 2014. Development assistance was provided only upon explicit request from a State. Whether a respective State had a programme on combating poverty and a strategy for sustainable socioeconomic development was taken into consideration. 70. The Russian Federation had adopted the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness: Ownership, Harmonisation, Alignment, Results and Mutual Accountability. Development projects were based on the national development strategies of the receiving Governments and the evaluation of their effectiveness was conducted together with the State authorities, based on mutually agreed criteria. The Russian Federation aimed to provide equal access for all developing countries to information regarding development assistance opportunities. Information regarding competitions for projects that were financed by the contributions from the Russian Federation to United Nations operative funds and programmes was published in open sources. 71. The Russian Federation paid special attention to the harmonization of financing for development approaches. For example, in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme it had financed a number of projects in the Commonwealth of Independent States. A project on strengthening the potential for stable financial development in the Commonwealth region for the period 2017–2019 was aimed at providing technical cooperation to the Governments of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan for receiving access to new sources of funding. Another project in Armenia, for the period 11