provide an enabling environment for the ODIHR to continue its work unhampered by unnecessary constraints and excessive controls; third, States should equip the ODIHR with sufficient resources to carry out all the mandates and tasks assigned to it by the participating States. Specifically, Chapter IV comes to the conclusion that: u The Chairman-in-Office should further encourage participating States to make use of the assistance offered by OSCE institutions; u States should re-examine the idea of establishing a flexible, temporary, and focused mechanism to examine specific issues or cases; u The OSCE should further engage with Partners for Co-operation and promote knowledge about, and visibility of, OSCE standards; u The OSCE should reach out more proactively to the wider network of organizations and initiatives and use its valuable expertise to promote democracy and human rights around the globe. For its part, the ODIHR will: u Further identify areas and issues that should be of concern to the OSCE community and bring them to the attention of the Chairman-in-Office, the Permanent Council, and a possible Human Dimension Committee; u Continue to reach out to the general public and disseminate relevant materials and information on its work in the human dimension and on the OSCE human dimension commitments, including by translating the OSCE Human Dimension Commitments into other languages; u If provided with adequate resources, enhance co-operation with the Mediterranean and Asian partners; u Enhance the collection and preservation of past and present expertise. In turn, field operations are encouraged to make more use of the ODIHR as a depository of successful strategies, methodologies, and projects in the human dimension. In order to enhance the effectiveness of human dimension meetings: u States should be encouraged to prepare for the HDIM more thoroughly and attend at a sufficiently high political and expert level; u States should focus more intensely on reviewing compliance across the range of the human dimension in the entire OSCE region, including by investigating the value and use of focused and selective questionnaires on targeted human dimension issues; u In preparing for Ministerial Councils, the Chairmanship should consider ways to ensure specific follow-up on the forward-looking discussion during the three special days during the HDIM; u States should consider the added value of organizing SHDMs outside Vienna with a view towards raising the Organization’s public profile/ownership. 80 Common Responsibility: Commitments and Implementation