A/HRC/19/50 in the design, establishment and implementation of specialized information systems for the follow-up of recommendations and voluntary pledges. 3 6. Denmark stated that the VFFTA should aim to establish and strengthen coordination mechanisms, to devise road maps for the follow-up of recommendations and to implement key recommendations. It further stated that it was important for all parties to actively support the UPR mechanism and that this support should include financial contributions to the VFFTA. 7. Guyana stated that the follow-up to commitments made by States during their respective reviews were fundamental and essential to the UPR process. The main challenge was to ensure that the norms and standards of the international human rights systems are translated into action. To that end, the implementation of international human rights obligations cannot depend on political will alone. In many instances, obligations will not be fulfilled, or fulfilled in a timely manner, because of the paucity or lack of necessary mechanisms, poor communication and dissemination, complex political situations, lack of capacity and resources at the institutional level, or difficulties of implementation due to competing and immediate demands on limited resources. In this regard, the VFFTA provided a critical and missing component in the implementation of States’ commitments, especially with regard to developing countries. 8. Guyana further stated that any system developed to implement the VFFTA will have to be efficient, realistic and directly linked to the provision of financial and technical cooperation or human rights advisory services, as requested by States. The VFFTA should assist States to access technical and financial resources to facilitate overcoming some of their capacity constraints. The VFFTA should specifically target the least developed countries, newly emerging or restored democracies, countries where there has been a regression in human rights as well as small and vulnerable States, which face particular challenges in attaining the realization of human rights. In addition, the VFFTA can assist in enabling the States to develop road maps and practical mechanisms to ensure a reliable follow-up and implementation process. Technical cooperation programmes can facilitate in the exchange of best practices between States and allow for more country-specific and country-driven goals achievable within a reasonable time frame, depending on the level of development constraints of a State, while at the same time recognizing the imperative of national capacity-building. 9. Guyana added that the VFFTA can contribute to and be integrated into the United Nations Common Country programming cycles, including the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF). Therefore, the VFFTA could positively contribute to the implementation of commitments made by States, especially small developing countries. 10. Japan stated that reviews from the second cycle onwards should focus, inter alia, on the implementation of the preceding outcome. In order to support the follow-up to accepted recommendations, Japan reiterated its previous proposal that beginning with the second cycle of the UPR: (a) each State should make its own best efforts to follow up on its recommendations and where these efforts are inhibited by a lack of resources and/or knowhow, relevant United Nations agencies including OHCHR are encouraged to provide assistance; (b) each State should group its accepted recommendations into those recommendations that it can implement on its own (first group) and those recommendations for whose implementation international assistance is required (second group), and provide this information to the Secretariat for circulation. In relation to the second group of recommendations, the State should call on bilateral donors and relevant United Nations 3 4 Colombia conveyed its responses to the survey in a note verbale, dated 16 November 2011.