A/HRC/7/74 page 7 Additional financial support or access to a regional pool of funds could allow human rights advisers to be assisted by specialized short-term experts from the United Nations system (for example, on child rights, environmental law, gender, disabilities, etc.). 2. Human rights components of United Nations peace missions 13. During the course of the twenty-seventh session, the Board had separate sessions with selected heads of human rights components of United Nations peace missions. The Board was briefed in depth on lessons learned from implementing technical cooperation in Afghanistan and Sudan. To facilitate the work of the Board of Trustees and to enable it to better review technical cooperation undertaken by human rights components of peace missions, a mapping exercise has been initiated. This aims to identify good practices based on lessons learned on the implementation of technical assistance and capacity-building activities in the context of United Nations peace operations that could be replicated and/or serve as a basis for new or improved future interventions. The mapping exercise is expected to be finalized at the beginning of 2008, and will assist the Board in continuing its follow-up and providing advice to advance technical cooperation carried out by human rights components of peace missions. IV. UPDATES ON RECENT DEVELOPMENTS REGARDING THE UNITED NATIONS REFORM PROCESS AND THE UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW 1. The United Nations reform process - “One UN” 14. The report of the Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on United Nations System-wide Coherence, “Delivering as One” (November 2006) recommends that human rights, as a cross-cutting issue, must be an integral part of United Nations activities, particularly when delivering as “One UN” at the country level. Consultations by the Panel have reaffirmed the legitimacy of the United Nations to address human rights through, inter alia, supporting national counterparts in their pursuit of international human rights commitments. In this context, eight country teams (Albania, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Pakistan, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uruguay, and Viet Nam) are piloting “One UN” (One Programme, One Budget, One Leader and One Office) with the Governments of the countries concerned. 15. During its sessions in 2007 the Board was briefed on current views on the development of a strategy to contribute to the “One UN” process and to bring human rights to the forefront of United Nations operations on the ground, in line with “Delivering as One”. The Board was pleased to note the reform effort (which it sees as a more long-term endeavour) and its emphasis on keeping the United Nations presence light, while maximizing use of the expertise of all the agencies. They saw the deployment of human rights advisers to country teams as a potentially efficient way for OHCHR to contribute its human rights expertise. The Board also underlined the importance of OHCHR positioning itself in order to be able to feed into the pool of potential candidates for Resident Coordinators, and at the same time ensure opportunities for staff progression from OHCHR into higher positions in the United Nations system. The Board further noted the challenges ahead as to how to effectively engage at the country level, how OHCHR can ensure adequate capacity internally and how to strengthen the OHCHR regional offices to substantively backstop technical cooperation at the level of country presences, human rights components within peace missions and human rights advisers placed in country teams.