A/HRC/44/25 implementation. UNFPA also manages the Global Youth Advisory Panel, comprising 21 young people, aged 15 to 24, from all geographical regions; (b) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ensures gender-and age-balanced partnerships with civil society in its work and meetings, where 50 per cent of the representatives from civil society should be women and at least 33 per cent youth representatives; (c) The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the World Food Programme have created the United Nations Partner Portal, a shared database designed to facilitate harmonized, efficient and easy collaboration between the United Nations and civil society. In the case of Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, more than 70 per cent of its civil society partners are local organizations; (d) The UNDP guidance note on social and environmental standards and its Gender Equality Strategy 2018–2021 provide for meaningful engagement of all stakeholders in all activities; (e) The UNAIDS Gender Assessment Tool for HIV responses and the People Living with HIV Stigma Index 2.0 allow for assessment of gender-specific barriers to the engagement of women and girls in the HIV response, the engagement of civil society promoting gender equality, and the involvement of key stakeholders in HIV data collection. UNAIDS played a key role in the establishment of the Robert Carr Fund, which provides funding to global and regional civil society networks to support their responses related to HIV/AIDS; (f) The Department of Economic and Social Affairs facilitates the World Summit on the Information Society Forum, a multi-stakeholder platform to support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. The programme and agenda of the summit are completely crowdsourced, including from civil society; (g) Structured engagements with a variety of civil society actors in their policy formulation and programme implementation processes are facilitated by the Farmers’ Forum and the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum at the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the World Health Organization framework of engagement with non-State actors, and the official partnerships of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with 392 non-governmental organizations and 33 foundations. 3. Efforts to overcome barriers to United Nations civil society engagement at the country level 28. Despite some good practices involving civil society engagement, barriers for the engagement of United Nations entities with civil society at the national level persist, including in relation to women, young people and other excluded and underrepresented population groups. For instance, in some countries, State authorities require formal registration of civil society entities, in order to partner with the United Nations, particularly in relation to its humanitarian, peacebuilding and democracy funds. 29. The United Nations Democracy Fund supports civil society projects around the world that strengthen the voice of civil society, promote human rights and encourage the participation of all groups in democratic processes. Some United Nations country teams support gender equality and grass-roots activists through small financial contributions and grants. 30. To address gender-specific barriers, United Nations country teams 11 reported that the United Nations Development Assistance Framework processes cover gender mainstreaming as a core component. Those processes include utilizing gender scorecard indicators to assess women’s participation, and carrying out gender screening and establishing a quota 11 Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Costa Rica, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait, Myanmar, Nepal, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Rwanda, Turkey and Uzbekistan. 7