In the frame of the Ombudsman’s NPM activity, it has been made more attention to increasing professional capacity of NPG members. At the initiative of the Ombudsman and in collaboration with the UNICEF Baku Office, it was held five-day training for NPG and Regional Offices of the Ombudsman titled “Increasing |Monitoring Skills in Child Rights”. UNICEF international experts Mr. Reidar Hiermann and Ms. Anna Nordenmark were involved into the training as experts and they shared their relevant experience. It were held discussions about human rights-based approaches to child work, international child rights standards, juveniles and children residing in social-care institutions, interviewing of children and application of various methods to obtain necessary information from them and on other issues; it were organized team works, practical experience and final observations. NPG members gave broad information to experts about their activity, effective multilateral cooperation of the Commissioner with well-known international human rights institutions, such as UNICEF. It was also reported that during the visits to the places which persons cannot leave at their own will, including TDPs, penitentiary institutions, investigation isolators, correction facilities, boarding houses for the elderly and PWDs, psychiatric institutions, NPG held meetings with the detainees, including children, learned their situation of custody condition, health care service, treatment in these facilities, also persons and staff members met, were given legal advice and were trained accordingly. In the frame of the training, the participants visited the Special Boarding School No. 6 for Speech Impaired Children under the Ministry of Education located in Turkan settlement of Baku city as well as the Correctional Institution of Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice. They met with children resided there. At the end of the training, the outcomes of the monitoring were discussed; the work of the Azerbaijani NPM was highly evaluated by international experts and considered to continue the cooperation in the future. 66