MANAGEMENT learned from the pilot with the senior leadership. The project was underpinned by a communication strategy to ensure active participation. The final reports were completed on 9 March. Colleagues that received feedback discussed the results and designed their professional development plans through coaching. • In 2019, special focus continued to be placed on women leaders within UN Human Rights. Five staff members attended the UNSSC Women Leadership programme, EMERGE the Programme for Emerging Women Leaders. During an office-wide collaborative effort in the first quarter of 2019, an initial proposal was developed for a Women’s Mentoring Programme that was based on learnings and good practices by UNAIDS. › E MERGE is a leadership development and coaching programme that promotes and develops women leaders with the aim of closing the gender parity gap in the UN system. It was co-developed for women leaders by 11 UN partners (ILO, the International Telecommunication Unit (ITU), the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UN Human Rights, UNAIDS, UNHCR, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC), WHO and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)) to implement the 2017 UN Leadership Framework. Specifically, it identified four leadership behaviours that exemplify the new way of working, namely, focusing on impact, driving transformational change, systems thinking and co-creation. The commitment to and belief in inter-agency collaboration and gender equality resulted in a high level of engagement by 33 participants and 28 organizers, including learning managers, from the 11 entities over a sustained period of three years. › In 2019, UN Human Rights jointly with ILO, ITU, OCHA, UNAIDS, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNOG, UNSSC, WHO and WIPO won the International Coaching Federation’s Prism Award for EMERGE, in recognition of its high-quality standards of professional coaching. The award honours organizations of all sizes and in all sectors that have enhanced their organizational performance through the deployment of coaching for a change in culture, leadership and people development, organizational productivity and performance improvement. The third edition began in 2019. • A number of initiatives were carried out to strengthen the skills of the staff in the Guatemala office. One such initiative that had a concrete impact on the work of UN Human Rights in the region involved the participation of a staff member in a training of trainers session on “Human Rights at International Borders,” in Geneva. The training was instrumental in strengthening the capacity of the Office in Guatemala to provide technical assistance to State institutions, particularly immigration and law enforcement officers, and staff members of the national human rights institution. It also enabled the Office to support similar initiatives undertaken by other field offices in the region. UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2019 83