A/HRC/20/25 114. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as special procedures mandate holders, may wish to consider: (a) Strengthening partnerships with NHRIs. Well-functioning and ongoing partnerships with NHRIs are crucial to ensure constant and effective monitoring of developments relevant to recommendations, particularly in cases in which official information and data are not available or accessible outside the country. Contact with NHRIs should not be limited to specific events (such as country visits or submission of country mission reports to the Human Rights Council), but should be based on a mutually reinforcing flow of information. The Special Rapporteur received considerable support from some of the NRHIs in the countries concerned at the time of the visit and preparation of the report. However, the Special Rapporteur also notes the need to strengthen the ongoing cooperation between special procedures and NHRIs, acknowledging the limited institutional capacity and resources of some NHRIs; (b) Enhancing cooperation with United Nations country teams and other United Nations agencies. In the country visits assessed here, the partnership with the United Nations country team and human rights field presence, where present, began from the first stages of mission preparations and was maintained throughout the entire process. The level of engagement of the United Nations entities present at the country level in the preparation and conduct of a country visit also influences the extent of meaningful follow-up. While the Special Rapporteur is grateful to United Nations partners for information provided for this report, she notes that the depth and scope of available information varied considerably, and the information received was most useful where specific human rights presences or focal points existed in the countries and agencies concerned. The Special Rapporteur acknowledges that additional efforts should be made to better coordinate the follow-up of recommendations with United Nations country teams, in terms of facilitating followup activities, incorporating the special procedure mandate holders’ recommendations into work plans and providing feedback to mandate holders on progress made towards implementing recommendations; (c) Strengthening coordination among special procedures and between special procedures and treaty bodies. In her mission reports the Special Rapporteur referred to recommendations made by other mandate holders who had previously conducted visits to the respective country, as well as to concluding observations by treaty bodies with regard to the country. Treaty bodies and other special procedures mandate holders have in turn referred to her findings and recommendations in their respective discussions, considerations (see, for example, CERD/C/VNM/Q/10-14) and reports (see, for example, A/HRC/17/26/Add.4, para. 7). These mutually reinforcing practices, which serve as complementary follow-up tools, need to be better coordinated and institutionalized through the support of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights so that cooperation and coordination among the human rights mechanisms can be intensified (A/HRC/18/41, paras. 26-27). 23