National Mechanisms for Reporting and Follow-up Group Activity 2.2 2 Hand-out 1/2 Guidance questions for discussion Working table 1: Engagement capacity ¡¡ How does my Government currently engage with international and regional human rights mechanisms? Which Ministry takes the lead? When? ¡¡ Is there a permanent structure for engagement with human rights mechanisms? Or is it an ad hoc engagement? ¡¡ What works well? What does not work well? ¡¡ How does/could the Government organize and centrally facilitate visits by Special Procedures mandate holders or the Sub-Committee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT)? ¡¡ How does/could it organize and centrally facilitate the preparation of responses to communications and follow-up questions and recommendations or decisions received from the Treaty Bodies or the Special Procedures? ¡¡ How could a NMRF best be structured and resourced? ¡¡ How could one avoid too much rotation between staff or maintain some core institutional knowledge? ¡¡ How could one ensure that staff are adequately trained? ¡¡ How would gender be mainstreamed in the structure and work processes? Working table 2: Coordination capacity ¡¡ How could the Government best collect, analyse and disseminate information from or to Government entities for reporting and follow-up to recommendations? ¡¡ How could the Government best collect, analyse and disseminate information from or to parliament, the judiciary and the National Statistical Office for reporting and follow-up to recommendations? ¡¡ Is/or could the lead agency/Ministry responsible for implementing Sustainable Development Goals be included in such a structure? ¡¡ If a NMRF were to be established, how could the visibility of the NMRF be ensured? ¡¡ How can one ensure that everybody understands its role and functions and cooperates with such a mechanism? 27