A/HRC/43/37 the United Nations sustainable development cooperation frameworks. A good example of this is the compilation made by the OHCHR country office in Tunisia. C. Collaboration with other actors 1. Collaboration with treaty bodies 48. Treaty bodies, through the concluding observations they adopt following interactive dialogues with States, contribute to upstream prevention by making recommendations on the institutional, legislative and societal changes needed to build more just and cohesive societies. They help also in identifying trends in and patterns of violations, thereby functioning as early warning mechanisms. The consultations highlighted the need to develop more cooperation between the Council’s mechanisms and treaty bodies. Treaty body chairs present annual reports to the General Assembly. The Council could enhance dialogue with the treaty bodies by inviting their chairs or other members to address the Council on specific country situations or themes. The Council could also consider inviting, on a more regular basis, treaty bodies to contribute to thematic studies, prepared either by OHCHR or the Advisory Committee. Building on existing practices, consultations between special procedures and treaty bodies could be strengthened. States should also use the universal periodic review process to recommend, more systematically, improvements in the timely submission of reports to the treaty bodies and implementation of treaty body recommendations or views adopted under the individual communications procedure. 2. Collaboration with regional organizations 49. Paragraph 5 (h) of General Assembly resolution 60/251 requires the Council to work in close cooperation with regional organizations. On this basis, the Council has adopted, since 2007, a series of resolutions on regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights, 10 which mandated OHCHR to organize workshops to share information and identify proposals on how to strengthen cooperation between the United Nations and regional arrangements in the field of human rights. 11 This has led to progress. The adoption, in 2012 in Addis Ababa, of a roadmap for increased cooperation between the special procedures and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights could be replicated in other regions. Such joint initiatives, if supported by sufficient resources to implement them, could enable more joint activities between United Nations mandate holders and the independent experts of other organizations, such as joint visits and statements, which so far have only happened on an ad hoc basis. The inclusion of independent experts from regional mechanisms in investigative bodies, as in the factfinding mechanisms on Burundi, could also be replicated. 50. The letter sent in 2008 by the High Commissioner inviting regional organizations to submit information to the universal periodic review, in addition to the communications sent by OHCHR to regional organizations before every universal periodic review cycle, has led to increased regular inputs by regional organizations. However, it is unclear what follow-up, if any, regional organizations give to universal periodic review recommendations. 51. In order to further develop cooperation between the Council and regional organizations specifically in the field of prevention, the Council could mandate OHCHR to organize a workshop and draft a report on this topic. An important area of joint endeavour may be the preventive potential of implementing, in a coordinated manner, the Sustainable Development Goals. 3. Collaboration with national human rights institutions and civil society organizations 52. The critical role played by national human rights institutions that comply with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles)12 and civil society organizations in preventing human rights violations has been underscored in several reports presented to the Council (in 10 11 12 See Human Rights Council resolutions 6/20, 12/15, 18/14, 24/19, 30/03 and 34/17. Six workshops have taken place so far. As of 4 March 2019, there are 78 institutions accredited with A status. 11