A/HRC/40/3 C. Peace and security 1. Support to peace missions 32. OHCHR continued its strategic and operational support to human rights components of United Nations peace operations and its engagement with the Security Council. 33. OHCHR participated in strategic assessments of peace operations in Mali and the Central African Republic and in transition planning in Darfur in the Sudan. It contributed to the development and review of policies on the protection of civilians, conflict-related sexual violence and child protection, and conducted training of uniformed peacekeeping personnel and senior leaders of peace operations. 2. Human rights due diligence and compliance frameworks 34. OHCHR co-led the global review of implementation of the human rights due diligence policy and provided technical and operational expertise for the implementation of the policy in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, GuineaBissau, Haiti, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan and Uganda. 35. OHCHR worked on the human rights compliance of non-United Nations international military operations authorized or mandated by the Security Council. It engaged with the Joint Force of the Group of Five for the Sahel and its member States for the establishment and operationalization of a human rights and international humanitarian law compliance framework. 3 It continued working with the African Union towards strengthening the human rights, international humanitarian law and conduct and discipline compliance framework for their peace support operations. 3. Prevention, early warning and emergency response 36. OHCHR supported the efforts of the Secretary-General to prioritize prevention and continued to implement the Human Rights Up Front initiative. 37. As part of its enhanced focus on preventing violations and strengthening protection of human rights, OHCHR continued to refine methodologies and reinforced its information management and early warning capacity. It developed a field-oriented information management strategy to respond to the needs of an increasingly data-driven environment and established emergency response teams in the regional offices for Southern Africa and South-East Asia. It also embarked on a project with the World Bank to strengthen the continental early warning system of the African Union. 38. Early warning tools developed by some human rights components of peace missions contributed to strengthening the protection of civilians in countries such as Mali and South Sudan. In the Central African Republic, OHCHR supported the adoption of a national action plan on the prevention of public incitement to violence and hate speech and the related national campaign. 39. OHCHR engaged in conflict prevention or resolution, for example between internally displaced persons or refugees and host communities in the south of Mauritania and in Nigeria, where it engaged with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in alternative dispute resolution measures on land and property issues emanating from the Boko Haram insurgency and counter-terrorism operations. 40. OHCHR dispatched teams to several countries to respond to crises and other emerging situations (Ecuador and Nicaragua), including as part of United Nations missions in Comoros and Togo. It remotely monitored the situation in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and conducted missions to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, in relation to the situation of the Rohingya population of Myanmar and to the integration of human rights in humanitarian assistance. It also supported the response of the humanitarian country team in Ethiopia and enhanced its advice to the authorities. 3 6 Security Council resolution 2391 (2017) provides for this compliance framework.