A/HRC/43/73 B. 1. Measures to enhance the effectiveness of the follow-up mechanisms to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and to ensure better synergy and complementarities in the work of those mechanisms Conclusions 87. The Working Group: (a) Recognizes the importance of continued efforts aimed at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the Durban follow-up mechanisms and commits to increasing efforts aimed at avoiding overlapping and/or the duplication of initiatives; (b) Acknowledges the need to enhance further the effectiveness of the mechanisms dealing with or addressing racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, with a view to achieving better synergy, coordination, coherence and complementarity in their work; (c) Commits to improving its methods of work with a view to enhancing its effectiveness and efficiency, including deciding that procedural issues, including ones relating to the agenda, programme of work and themes for deliberations, will be addressed by the Chair at least three months before the beginning of the respective session, requesting that the secretariat circulate all relevant documents, both procedural and substantive, at least six weeks before the respective sessions and that the Secretariat notify non-governmental organizations, national human rights institutions and other stakeholders well in advance with regard to upcoming sessions; (d) Commits to increasing efforts to complement the work of other Durban followup mechanisms with a view to avoiding overlapping and/or the duplication of initiatives and agrees to continue discussion of those efforts at future sessions; (e) Requests OHCHR, in scheduling the relevant sessions of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action follow-up mechanisms, to avoid overlap between their respective sessions and also to avoid overlap with sessions of the Human Rights Council and its various mechanisms, in order to allow the meaningful participation of Member States, regional and subregional organizations, national human rights institutions or similar bodies and civil society organizations; (f) Underlines that the limitation of resources should not affect the implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, while acknowledging the need to enhance the effectiveness of the mechanisms related to or addressing racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, with a view to achieving better synergy, coordination, coherence and complementarity of work; (g) Underlines the imperative of the full and effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and is of the view that the twentieth anniversary of its adoption should be seen as an important opportunity to strengthen its role as a comprehensive tool for the anti-racism agenda and an occasion to assess the impact of the work of the Durban follow-up mechanisms and provide for increased publicity and outreach on their contributions. 2. Recommendations 88. The Working Group recognizes the importance of continued efforts aimed at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the Durban follow-up mechanisms and commits to increasing efforts aimed at avoiding overlapping and/or the duplication of initiatives. It reiterates its request for more cooperation between the Durban follow-up mechanisms and relevant human rights bodies, including treaty bodies and special procedures mandate holders, with the aim of developing synergy and complementarities between those mechanisms, and invites the group of independent eminent experts on the implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent: (a) To leverage the inputs of other United Nations mechanisms aimed at the elimination of racial discrimination; 15