A/HRC/14/32 trafficking, current trends with regard to victims, traffickers and criminal networks, their modi operandi, travel routes and different forms of exploitation. Funding 105. Some regional mechanisms lack the necessary financial capacity to provide the support and technical and legal assistance to countries in their region to mainstream international human rights standards into their anti-trafficking laws. For example, LAS indicated that countries in its region are keen to receive support in that regard, but that LAS lacked the necessary funds to provide it. IV. Conclusions and recommendations Based on her analysis, the Special Rapporteur puts forward the recommendations set out in the following paragraphs. 106 Whenever possible, regional or subregional cooperation mechanisms should be established to promote a coordinated approach to combat human trafficking within a region where complementarities and synergies for joint work exist. 107 Regional mechanisms should develop standards that reflect a human rightsbased approach to trafficking, based on relevant international instruments such as the Palermo Protocol and the OHCHR Guidelines. These standards should be developed in regional legal instruments, regional and national action plans, bilateral agreements, and further set out in practical guidelines, standard operating procedures or practitioners’ handbooks. Furthermore, regional mechanisms should provide assistance to countries in operationalizing these standards at the national level through capacity-building activities, most importantly training and workshops. Finally, they should be active in monitoring and evaluation, collecting data on achievements and challenges, and sharing the results of their evaluation, including good practices, with countries in their region. 108 Regional cooperation instruments and plans of action should promote the ratification of international human rights law instruments, including the Palermo Protocol. In particular, they should contain a commitment by all countries to adopt the Palermo Protocol definition of human trafficking, which covers trafficking of all persons, women, children and men, and in all its forms, including for sexual exploitation, labour exploitation, slavery or practices similar to slavery, organ transplantation and other exploitative reasons. (a) With regard to the regional mechanisms’ institutional frameworks, these should include: 109. A sustained high-level commitment from relevant ministries or establishments that focus on human trafficking. 110. A solid foundation to build from, such as a Convention, an MOU or a Declaration, followed by a comprehensive regional workplan. 111. The establishment of a regional monitoring body to meet regularly to review the degree of implementation of normative instruments and workplans and provide recommendations to countries. 20 GE.10-13211