REPORTING TO THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY BODIES TRAINING GUIDE: Part II — Notes for Facilitators SESSION SEQUENCE Step 1: Interactive presentation  Duration 45 minutes a) The main issues to be presented will generally be: üü the fact that States have been increasingly adopting different approaches to meeting their growing international and regional human rights obligations; üü the purpose of the OHCHR Practical Guide and the accompanying Study of State Engagement with International Human Rights Mechanisms: identify the key ingredients for a well-functioning and efficient NMRFs (drawing on different State practices and not proposing a one-size-fits-all solution); üü a definition of a National Mechanism for Reporting and Follow-up; üü the advantages and disadvantages of the existing types of NMRF: 1) ad hoc; 2) standing, based within a Ministry or Inter-Ministerial; and 3) separate institution; üü the key features of a NMRF: standing governmental structure; comprehensive mandate; budget and human resources; and its four capacities (see next point); üü an explanation in detail of the four capacities of an effective NMRF, i.e. engagement, coordination, consultation and information management; üü examples of the links between the four capacities and the reporting cycle. TIP ÎÎGeneral links of a NMRF four capacities with the reporting cycle: • all technical aspects (e.g., knowledge of how to submit a report to a Treaty Body) enhance the engagement capacity; • pulling together information for a State party report from different Ministries, Government institutions, the parliament, the judiciary and the National Statistics Office enhances the State’s coordination capacity; • consultation on the draft State party report with the national human rights institution or civil society organizations is an expression of the consultation capacity of the State; • establishing methods and tools for tracking implementation of recommendations from human rights mechanisms including the Treaty Bodies (e.g., implementation plans, clustering of recommendations) enhances the information management capacity. b) Instead of a PPT, you can reconstruct the chart below with self-sticking cards and markers on a flipchart as you are explaining to participants the key features and four capacities of a NMRF. 22