A/HRC/38/28 teams have increased their capacity to apply a human rights-based approach, which can help to support Member States in building synergies at the country level. United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks and other United Nations planning documents, in a number of countries, have integrated human rights concepts and mainstreamed recommendations issued by the international human rights mechanisms, and have highlighted linkages between the Sustainable Development Goals and human rights. The OHCHR Regional Office for South America has developed a matrix linking the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their targets and indicators with the recommendations issued as part of the universal periodic review process and by special procedures and treaty bodies, in relation to the countries of the region. As a result, the 2017–2021 United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks of Brazil and Peru incorporate a matrix that matches each strategic outcome of the framework to relevant Sustainable Development Goals and recommendations from the human rights mechanisms. 15. The United Nations can support enhanced policy coherence by assisting with aligning strategies and plans, ensuring that nobody is left behind, and identifying synergies between human rights obligations and Sustainable Development Goals. As experience from several countries shows, OHCHR capacity-building activities, coupled with advocacy by United Nations country teams, can result in the human rights mechanisms’ recommendations being mainstreamed in national action plans and can inform the process of implementing and reporting on the Goals. Uzbekistan integrated the recommendation of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on enhancing women’s participation in public affairs in its State Programme for the Implementation of the Development Action Strategy for 2017–2021. On the basis of the same Committee’s recommendations, Tajikistan incorporated prevention of violence against women and girls as a sub-priority of its National Development Strategy for 2016–2030, and developed an action plan on implementing the Committee’s recommendations. The National Action Plan on gender parity for 2018–2020, of Kyrgyzstan, incorporates the Committee’s concluding observations, the agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women, and the Sustainable Development Goals and provides for a national monitoring mechanism and the participatory development of sectoral and regional gender action plans. 16. The 2030 Agenda also provides new avenues for cooperation among States. The growing interest of Member States in South-South and triangular cooperation opens doors to new and innovative opportunities to further the rights-based implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. Noteworthy in this respect is the “Sufficiency Economy Philosophy for the Sustainable Development Goals Partnership” initiative, of King Bhumibol of Thailand. There are currently such partnership projects with 20 countries in the Asia-Pacific region and in Africa, such as Fiji, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste and Tonga, and Benin, Lesotho, Mozambique and Senegal, which promote the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and of human rights in areas including the right to food, the right to health, the right to development. The Ministerial Declaration of the Group of 77 and China in 2016 recognized the value of the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy as a practical approach that could support the implementation and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals — underscored by its successful application in various development projects in a number of Group of 77 countries. B. Operationalizing the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and human rights through information management 17. The Universal Human Rights Index, which is a database of recommendations from all United Nations human rights mechanisms, now also has links to the Sustainable Development Goals. In April 2018, as part of an agreement between OHCHR and the Danish Institute for Human Rights, a database was launched linking human rights recommendations to the Sustainable Development Goals. Still a pilot project at this stage, it links the more than 50,000 recommendations made during the first and second cycles of the universal periodic review to specific Sustainable Development Goals. The database allows States to address these recommendations as part of their implementation of the Sustainable 5