A/HRC/19/47 National Priority Program (NPP) on Human Rights and Civic Responsibilities10 under the Governance Cluster of the Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board (JCMB). OHCHR/UNAMA provided input during the action plan’s consultation and drafting process, supporting the coordination role of AIHRC throughout. In October 2011, JCMB endorsed the priority programme, and its further implementation and funding were discussed along with the other NPPs at the Bonn Conference in December. Additionally, at Bonn, the international community agreed to continue supporting Afghanistan in the long term and to deliver the vast majority of development assistance in line with the Government’s strategic funding priorities, laid out in the NPPs. Although the plan of action has been endorsed by the JCMB and donors have committed to channel 80 per cent of all future funding through the NPPs, it is still unclear whether there will be enough funding available to implement the NPP on Human Rights and Civic Responsibilities. 48. OHCHR/UNAMA and international donors worked with the Government to meet the Kabul Process11 commitment to create a funding mechanism in the State budget for AIHRC. On 13 December 2010, the Ministry of Finance announced that the Government had allocated one million dollars to AIHRC, subject to parliamentary approval of the 2011/2012 budget. Despite this pledge, the final 2011/2012 budget submitted to Parliament allocated only half the pledged amount and failed to regularize AIHRC’s legal status within the overall budget framework. As international donor support is likely to dwindle in the next year, AIHRC will increasingly have to rely on Government allocations, and so long as its budgetary status is not regularized and safeguarded, the Commission’s independence and long-term sustainability will be vulnerable. OHCHR/UNAMA, together with international partners will continue to advocate for the Commission to have access to sustainable State funding in order to perform all the functions set out in its mandate, in accordance with the Paris Principles. 49. Together with the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), OHCHR/UNAMA facilitated a capacity assessment of AIHRC in May and July 2011. OHCHR/UNAMA and international partners will continue providing support to the Commission to aid implementation of their capacity development strategy and capacity assessment recommendations. 50. AIHRC’s Child Rights Commissioner, Hamida Barmaki, and her family were tragically killed in the 28 January 2011 attack on a supermarket in Kabul. She was one of OHCHR/UNAMA’s key partners on children’s rights and played an important role in furthering agreements between the Government and the United Nations to prevent sexual abuse and underage recruitment of children. 51. OHCHR/UNAMA continued to provide technical support to the Human Rights Support Unit (HRSU) at the Ministry of Justice.12 OHCHR/UNAMA had regular strategic meetings with HRSU to provide policy advice in different areas of its work, as well as technical assistance for the development of an action plan to implement the recommendations of the Human Rights Council under the 2009 universal periodic review. 10 11 12 The National Priority Program on Human Rights and Civic Responsibilities highlights the importance of human rights, legal awareness and civic education programmes targeting communities across Afghanistan to foster a more informed public and civil society and to increase Government accountability. AIHRC is the lead coordinator of activities among line ministries and civil society groups. The transition process to Afghan leadership and responsibility, reaffirmed at the international conference on Afghanistan, held in Kabul on 20 July 2010. The Human Rights Support Unit, officially inaugurated on 29 September 2010, is responsible for strengthening the Government’s capacity to fulfil its international human rights obligations. 15