HIGHLIGHTS OF RESULTS securing improved health outcomes for women, children and adolescents. In May, the HLWG issued a report that included recommendations on the creation of an enabling environment, partnering with people and strengthening evidence and accountability. Human rights integrated into UN policies and programmes obligations. In Haiti, the UNCT and the Haitian Government signed the joint Action Plan for the period 20172021, which integrates human rights concepts and approaches and establishes indicators to measure the achievement of the SDGs. In the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Partnership for Sustainable Development: United Nations Strategy 2016-2020, makes specific reference to the implementation of the recommendations issued by the international human rights mechanisms and promotes the participatory and rights-based implementation of the actions included in the Strategy. Since the Strategy entered into force, UN agencies have systematically used the recommendations issued by the international human rights mechanisms in the design of their respective programmes. For example, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF and UN Women developed a joint project aimed at ensuring that persons with disabilities can realize their right to live independently. The project follows up on specific recommendations issued by CEDAW, CESCR and the UPR. UN Human Rights led efforts to mainstream human rights, including the right to development, into the work of the UN at the global and country levels. Through the United Nations Development Group’s Human Rights Working Group, 24 human rights advisers were deployed across a number of regions. With their support, and support provided by other UN Human Rights field presences, United Nations Country Teams (UNCTs) increased their capacities to apply a human rights-based approach to their United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks (UNDAFs). As a result, UNDAFs and other UN planning documents in many countries significantly integrate human rights concepts and mainstream recommendations issued by the international human rights mechanisms. For example, in the Central African Republic, human rights were integrated into the UNDAF 2018-2021 and the post-conflict recovery strategy, which provides for the establishment and strengthening of the National Commission for Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Other countries where UNDAFs or joint UN development programmes significantly integrate human rights concepts and recommendations issued by the international human rights mechanisms include Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, Dominican Republic, the Gambia, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Senegal, Serbia, State of Palestine2, Ukraine, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In Bangladesh, the UNDAF 2017-2020 is in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and focuses on overcoming structural inequalities, promoting the advancement of women and disadvantaged or vulnerable individuals and groups, strengthening governance and developing the capacities of rightsholders and duty-bearers. It also emphasizes the implementation of the country’s human rights treaty UN Human Rights continued to advocate for the inclusion of human rights concepts in climate laws and policies, including at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The twenty-third session of the Conference of the Parties decided to establish the first Gender Action Plan and the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge Platform, both of which contain significant human rights references. 2 Reference to the State of Palestine should be understood in compliance with United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19. UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2017 37