4.3. Portuguese Ombudsman as President of the Ibero-American Federation of Ombudsman The Ibero-American Federation of Ombudsman (FIO) brings together 104 Ombudsman and Human Rights Institutions from 20 Ibero-American geographical areas, which since 1995 have been dedicated to the protection and promotion of Human Rights. On March 10, 2016, the Ombudsman assumed the Presidency of the Ibero-American Ombudsman Federation, an institution of which he was already Vice-President of the European Region, following the resignation of the previous President elected at the XX General Assembly of FIO, of November 2015, that took place in the city of Montevideo, Uruguay. On the same occasion, on the proposal of the Ombudsman of Portugal, approved by the Rector Council of FIO, Deputy Ombudsman Jorge Miranda Jacob was appointed as FIO’s technical secretary. At the aforementioned meeting of the FIO Rector Council, held on March 10, 2016, in the city of Lisbon, FIO’s Strategic Strategic Plan was approved for the four-year 20162020, in which the following strategic objectives were defined: As a reference institution in the defense, promotion and protection of Human Rights in Ibero-American geographic space; Improve the internal and external communication processes of the Federation; Ensure the principle of gender equality in the FIO; Support and strengthen the thematic networks based work model; Strengthen the relationship between the institutions that make up the FIO and improve its capacity for action; And develop a permanent technical structure. In the course of FIO’s current activity and with a view to its institutional strengthening, in view of the inadequacy of its Statutes in view of the current size and activity of the Federation, steps were taken to reform them, which also corresponded essentially to the text approved In 1995, the year of its foundation, with further detailed corrections. For this purpose, FIO members were consulted, a first update study was carried out and a commission was set up to present a proposal for a statutory amendment to the FIO General Assembly. Each year the FIO produces a thematic report on human rights issues. The first report prepared and published under the Portuguese Presidency focused on the theme of poverty, an option dictated by the relevance and visibility of the subject, which is also the essential theme of the United Nations Agenda 2030, To put an end to poverty in all its forms and throughout the world and, by 2030, to eradicate extreme poverty. This report, which was attended by 19 of the 20 National Institutions of FIO, was publicly presented at its Annual Congress, under the theme Poverty, Dignity and Human Rights, held on November 23 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, In the Canaries. In this same place was held, on November 24, the XXI Ordinary General Assembly of the FIO, where they discussed | 97