A/HRC/39/26 the high-level political forum. It was furthermore instrumental in shaping the actions of OHCHR to meet and report on its commitments to the World Humanitarian Summit. The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the Committee on the Rights of the Child also continued to call on States parties to implement the technical guidance in their concluding observations. 8. In an effort to make the guidance more accessible for specific stakeholder groups, OHCHR — in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and the François-Xavier Bagnoud Centre for Health and Human Rights of Harvard University — produced practical guidance for the judiciary on key considerations in applying a rightsbased approach to sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn and under-5 child health.4 This adds to the series of reflection guides highlighted in previous reports, including for health policymakers, national human rights institutions and health workers. 9. OHCHR worked closely with other United Nations agencies to integrate the technical guidance in wider United Nations processes, notably the Global Strategy on Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health, including through the convening of the High-level Working Group on the Health and Human Rights of Women, Children and Adolescents, established by WHO and OHCHR. In its report,5 launched in May and June 2017 at both the World Health Assembly and the Human Rights Council, the Working Group put forward a holistic, integrated approach, asserting that the health of women, children and adolescents could only be improved if human rights were upheld and if there was strong political will and leadership. As a result of the work of the Working Group, WHO and OHCHR concluded a framework of cooperation and are developing a joint programme of work to support further implementation of the recommendations, which will include efforts to further promote implementation of the technical guidance. III. Utilization of the technical guidance A. National level multi-stakeholder processes 10. The technical guidance supports the convening of multi-stakeholder processes to consider and prioritize action on human rights related to sexual and reproductive health, and OHCHR has facilitated such processes with partners since the adoption of the technical guidance. 11. For instance, in Malawi, following the 2015 multi-stakeholder dialogue on the human rights assessment and national inquiry, efforts continued to implement the action plan that emerged from that process. The follow-up efforts included: monitoring implementation of the recommendations; working towards accountability through dissemination meetings in 10 districts; providing training to strengthen the capacity of service providers; and establishing real-time reporting and early warning signs of violations of sexual and reproductive health and rights. Those processes also supported legislative reform efforts, such as increasing the age of marriage to 18 years and revisions to the national sexual and reproductive health policy, which raised budget allocations for contraception and sets out a strategy for strengthened community and youth-based sexual and reproductive health initiatives. That work, which was supported by UNFPA, was coordinated by a national task force, established by the Malawi Human Rights Commission and composed of civil society organizations and State institutions. 12. Following the 2014 multi-stakeholder consultation in Uganda, OHCHR continued to work closely with the Ministry of Health, UNFPA, WHO, the Uganda Human Rights Commission and civil society on the technical guidance, including support to the Ministry of Health in the development and elaboration of its multi-sectoral strategy on the 4 5 4 See www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Women/WRGS/JudiciaryGuide.pdf. Available at www.who.int/life-course/publications/hhr-of-women-children-adolescents-report/en/.