HIGHLIGHTS OF RESULTS Highlights of pillar results Mechanisms (M) PILLAR RESULTS / SHIFTS / SDGs RESULTS / SPOTLIGHTS M1 Technical assistance provided through the Treaty Body Capacity-Building Programme contributed to the establishment and/or strengthening of National Mechanisms for Reporting and Follow-up (NMRFs) in Botswana, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Eswatini, Ghana, Haiti, Kenya, Mauritius, the Republic of North Macedonia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Zambia. In the State of Palestine1 , OHCHR gradually enhanced the capacity of the Palestinian NMRF, including by increasing the knowledge about the international human rights treaties and mechanisms of representatives from relevant government institutions in the NMRF. Actions taken by the Office contributed to the institutionalization of the NMRF, clearly identifying the roles and responsibilities of each of its three levels, namely, the permanent High-level Interministerial Committee, the Interministerial Technical Committee and the ministry-based working groups. In addition, UN Human Rights initiated the roll-out of the National Recommendations Tracking Database (NRTD) to support the effective follow-up on relevant concluding observations/recommendations issued by the international human rights mechanisms. National institutionalized structures facilitate an integrated and participatory approach to reporting to the human rights mechanisms and implementation of their recommendations. Spotlights: Youth Disabilities Women With OHCHR’s support, the NMRF in Serbia cooperated with civil society and other relevant actors in the measurement of implementation of recommendations from the international human rights mechanisms. The Government, together with CSOs, developed a set of human rights indicators and an online database is now available to reflect nearly 400 recommendations received from the international human rights mechanisms. The database includes an interactive feature that ensures that all indicators that measure progress, their level of implementation and all relevant collected data can be easily updated and monitored by the general public. Furthermore, the Office facilitated the participation of CSOs in regular sessions of the NMRF and their engagement with issues of particular relevance, such as the prohibition of torture, specific reporting exercises and follow-up to individual decisions. At the request of CSOs, the Office organized a series of thematic sessions between relevant line ministries and members of the NMRF that are focused on follow-up and the exchange of insights and information about accountability regarding specific processes or outcomes. M2 Civil society organizations, national human rights institutions, and non-traditional actors, particularly those working on emerging human rights issues (frontier issues), increasingly engage with the international human rights mechanisms and use their outcomes. The UN Country Team (UNCT) in Ukraine submitted contributions to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in anticipation of its preparation of the list of issues related to its consideration of Ukraine’s combined second and third periodic reports; to the Human Rights Committee in anticipation of its preparation of the list of issues prior to its consideration of Ukraine’s eighth periodic report; and to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) to supplement Ukraine’s follow-up report to the concluding observations issued by the treaty body. UN Human Rights led the UNCT’s Human Rights Working Group and, in coordinating these submissions, it promoted a unified UNCT approach and ensured that the major human rights issues affecting Ukraine were brought to the attention of the UN human rights mechanisms. In El Salvador, OHCHR facilitated the process of discussing recommendations issued during the second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) cycle with the UNCT, the Office of the Procurator 1 20 UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2019 Shifts: H ereinafter, all references to the State of Palestine should be understood in compliance with United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19. Global Constituency Prevention Civic Space