ANNEX II: ACHIEVEMENT OF TARGETS FOR GLOBAL EXPECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND LESSONS LEARNED OVER 2014-2017 reservations to treaties and establishing human rightscompliant transitional justice mechanisms have been identified as areas where results fell short of the targets set at the national level. Lessons learned from the implementation of the OMP 2014-2017 UN Human Rights has used results-based management (RBM) as the foundation for its management strategy for the past four years. RBM fosters a resultsoriented culture that focuses on the achievement of a set of goals and the use of feedback and accountability to develop, implement, evaluate and report on operational activities. In accordance with RBM, UN Human Rights has successfully institutionalized an evaluation function and culture founded on a systematic, methodological approach. Office-wide evaluations have been instrumental in determining how to make the UN Human Rights programme more relevant, effective, efficient and sustainable. During the reporting period, UN Human Rights carried out an unprecedented number of strategic/cross-cutting evaluations of a wide variety of activities, including support that was provided to national human rights institutions (NHRIs) and in relation to the alignment of national legislation with international human rights standards (from 2017). Evaluations were also undertaken of the regional gender advisers structure and of the programmes that were supported by human rights advisers. Moreover, a number of de-centralized evaluations of field presences programmes and projects were conducted regarding: the programme of the Regional Office for Central Asia; the internal reviews for Honduras, Mexico and Uganda; the Maya Programme for the Full Exercise of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Guatemala; the projects on “Combating Discrimination in the Republic of Moldova” and “Building Capacities for Human Rights Monitoring Protection and Advocacy in Tajikistan;” The Impact of Technical Assistance and Capacity-Building on the Human Rights Situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (as requested by the Human Rights Council); the review of the UN Network on Racial Discrimination and Protection of Minorities as well as two lessons learned exercises from the projects “Human Rights Protection in the South of 158 UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2017 Kyrgyzstan” and “Human Rights Protection for Stability in Central Asia.” In addition, UN Human Rights supported external evaluation processes regarding: an evaluation of UN Human Rights by the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), which emphasized the work of the field presences; another OIOS evaluation, conducted in 2017, which focused on human rights protection in peacekeeping operations; and an assessment undertaken by the Multilateral Organization Performance Assessment Network of UN Human Rights, which began in 2017 and will continue in 2018. As a standard practice, action plans for the implementation of evaluation recommendations are submitted to the Office’s Programme Budget Review Board for their review and endorsement. The implementation of the action plans is monitored every six months. Furthermore, a meta-analysis of the results of the evaluations and audits conducted during the programming cycle 2014-2017 was undertaken, which included the assessment of 12 external and internal evaluations, 10 audits and two lessons learned exercises. The conclusions of the evaluations, good practices, lessons learned and recommendations were categorized and analysed according to thematic areas and geographic scope. The results of the meta-analysis provided inputs for the development of the OHCHR Management Plan (OMP) 2018-2021. The following lessons learned were extracted from the meta-analysis of the results of evaluations conducted in UN Human Rights during the programming cycle 2014-2017, as well as those from monitoring reports. Lessons learned related to thematic issues Compliance of national laws policies and institutions UN Human Rights uses several types of strategic interventions to achieve its intended results. For instance, the Office provides institutionalized training of judges and prosecutors on the application of international human rights law, encourages the judicial and quasi-judicial pursuit of emblematic cases and monitors trials in order to facilitate changes in national judicial systems, strengthen the rule of law and ensure compliance with international human rights standards. Specific achievements in these areas were identified in the evaluations of the projects “Combating Discrimination in the Republic of Moldova” and the “Maya Programme for the Full Exercise of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Guatemala.”