A/HRC/RES/45/32 Reaffirming General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 27 September 2015, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, and recalling the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular, inter alia, Goal 4 on ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all, and its specific and interlinked targets, and other education-related Goals and targets, Reaffirming also the Incheon Declaration: Education 2030: Towards inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all, Stressing the importance of international cooperation, including the exchange of good practices, and of technical cooperation, capacity-building, financial assistance and technology transfer on mutually agreed terms in facilitating the realization of the right to education, including through the strategic and adapted use of information and communications technology, Recognizing the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on the enjoyment of the right to education and the educational disruption experienced by learners, especially girls and those in the most vulnerable and disadvantaged situations, which may exacerbate exclusion and inequalities in education, Recognizing also the need to assess, monitor and mitigate the impact caused by the closure of schools and other educational institutions during the pandemic with a view to facilitating the continuity of inclusive and equitable quality education for all, and encouraging national initiatives such as data collection, inclusive decision-making in public policies for education, and national monitoring and follow-up mechanisms, for and with the participation of children and adolescents, where feasible, Recognizing further that technical cooperation and capacity-building play an important role in supporting States’ efforts to alleviate the adverse impact of the pandemic on the enjoyment of the right to education and to ensure inclusive learning opportunities by, inter alia, facilitating distance learning solutions, bridging the digital divide that hinders access to technology and educational opportunities for disadvantaged learners, and enhancing the capacities of educational institutions and teachers, and in this regard welcoming relevant multi-stakeholder partnerships, such as the Global Education Coalition, launched by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as part of its COVID-19 education response, Reiterating that one of the responsibilities of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Office of the High Commissioner is to provide advisory services and technical assistance, at the request of the State concerned, with a view to supporting actions and programmes in the field of human rights, and to coordinate activities to promote and protect human rights throughout the United Nations system in accordance with the mandate of the Office, Appreciating the important role of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights, the Voluntary Trust Fund for Participation in the Universal Periodic Review, the Voluntary Technical Assistance Trust Fund to Support the Participation of Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States in the Work of the Human Rights Council and the Voluntary Trust Fund for Financial and Technical Assistance for the Implementation of the Universal Periodic Review in supporting States in developing their national capacities to promote the effective implementation of their human rights obligations and accepted universal periodic review recommendations, including those pertaining to the right to education, Noting with appreciation the contributions of the Boards of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights and of the Voluntary Trust Fund for Financial and Technical Assistance for the Implementation of the Universal Periodic Review through their annual reports to the Human Rights Council, in particular on the components of technical cooperation and the identification of good practices, Welcoming and encouraging new and existing initiatives aimed at providing human rights technical cooperation and capacity-building support, in consultation with and with the consent of the Member States concerned, through bilateral and multilateral cooperation, 2