MANAGEMENT Rights Council, the Universal Periodic Review Working Group and the human rights treaty bodies further contributed to ensuring greater public access to their deliberations. UN Human Rights will continue to provide support to the international human rights mechanisms with a view to ensuring improved implementation of their standard-setting functions. Overall, a total of 84 per cent of the outputs planned for this GMO in 2017 were fully or substantially achieved. The following examples demonstrate the results achieved under this GMO last year. uu uu uu uu uu 72 In 2017, UN Human Rights assisted the Human Rights Council to hold its three regular sessions and one special session. A total of 140 fully serviced meetings were organized, in addition to 50  interactive dialogues, 19 panel discussions, two intersessional panels and one intersessional seminar on a wide array of topics. The Office also provided secretariat support to the annual meetings of the subsidiary bodies and mechanisms of the Council, including the HRC Advisory Committee, the Working Groups under the Compliant Procedure, the Consultative Group, many intergovernmental working groups and three forums set up by the HRC. Also in 2017, UN Human Rights provided substantive, technical and logistical support to all sessions of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group, including by preparing pre-session reports, Working Group reports and summaries of the UPR segment in the Human Rights Council plenary sessions. By November 2016, all 193 Member States had been reviewed by the UPR mechanism for the second time. In May 2017, the third cycle started. With substantive and logistical support provided by UN Human Rights during the year, the special procedures mandate-holders undertook 87 country visits to 67 States and territories. The Office assisted in the drafting and submission of 534 communications to States, 131 reports to the Human Rights Council, 39 reports to the General Assembly and the issuing of 387 public statements. UN Human Rights provided secretariat, logistical and substantive support to the 10 treaty bodies for the organization of 93 weeks of meetings, the consideration of 165 State Party reports, the drafting and adoption of approximately 7,500 recommendations and the adoption of final decisions on 2,216 communications. The Office continued to provide live webcasts of human rights treaty body meetings and, in 2017, facilitated the broadcast of 158 public reviews. The Office made use of a wide variety of communication tools to support the work of the international human rights mechanisms, thereby contrib- UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2017 uu uting to their increased visibility and accessibility. For instance, in 2017, UN Human Rights issued 387 media communications, including advisories and press releases, relating to the work of the special procedures and 111 relating to the work of the human rights treaty bodies. In addition, good progress was made towards the finalization of the new Human Rights Council website, which was launched in March 2018. Security support was provided to special rapporteurs and treaty body experts during their official missions, as well as to members of commissions of inquiry and other fact-finding mechanisms mandated by the Human Rights Council. In 2017, UN Human Rights supported and coordinated 28 missions of special procedures and treaty body experts and 32 field visits of commissions of inquiry, fact-finding missions and missions of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. GMO 5: Increased effectiveness in supporting field operations During the 2014-2017 planning cycle, UN Human Rights undertook steps to improve the effectiveness of its support to field operations, particularly in relation to rapid response operations, humanitarian planning processes, the allocation of grants to implementing partners on the ground and the streamlining of administrative processes. For example, the percentage of staff members who were released by their supervisors to deploy to emergency situations for a period of at least two months reached a target rate of 90 per cent over four years. Also, the percentage of grants and funds that were allocated to local organizations within two weeks of their application being submitted reached 75 per cent. While some progress was made in improving the process for clearing public reports and providing overall support to field operations, efforts will be made to strengthen these areas in the next planning cycle. In 2017, 85 per cent of the outputs planned for this GMO were fully or substantially achieved. The results outlined below provide examples of the achievements in this area. uu The High Commissioner, the Deputy High Commissioner and the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights supported the work and advocacy efforts of the UN Human Rights field presences through missions to: Central African Republic, Colombia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Qatar, Somalia, South Sudan and the United States of America.