full workload of the ICHR staff, Farid stated the importance of the ICHR to
involve staff in Agenda 2030 activities as well as the form of recognition for staff
who have been involved in this activity.114
Regarding the budget issue, Farid stated that the ICHR is not funded by
the Palestinian government related to the actualization of the international level
the SDGs capacity building and funding depends on six European countries.115
Farid did not explain the solution for this, but emphasized that the sustainability
of this activity would not be good if only relying on third party support.116
4.2.6. How Does Sharing Experiences Between Human Rights
Institutions Benefit the Implementation and Optimization of SDGs?
In her answer during the interview, Farid stated that the majority of the
SDGs knowledge gained was from sharing experiences at the international and
regional levels.117 Specifically, Farid also explained an example of experience
obtained from the UNDP regarding the SDGs supervision which is based on “no
one is left behind”.118
Heba Farid (2021): “So when you find out some concept that you
do not have and you can find the benefit of having a clear
concept about something related to the SDGs or any other topic
from the monitoring and evaluation and learning perspective and
you can find the right environment to adopt it, so you are going
to adopt it easily. So being exposed to other experiences make it
easier for you to learn through imitation and through peer
learning I think.”
From this experience, the ICHR developed the special Palestinian “no
one is left behind” method in SDGs.119 Another specific experience was
strengthening the human rights database system in which the ICHR obtained a
lot of valuable inspiration from the Danish Parliamentary Ombudsman.120 Farid
(1) “Follow Up Study on Komnas HAM’s Survey on NHRIs in Asia Pacific” (n. 6), Heba Farid’s
answers (Monitoring, Evaluation, and Databases Officer of (Monitoring, Evaluation, and
Databases Officer of the Independent Commission of Human Rights); and (2) Palestine’s ICHR
Zoom Interview (n. 91).
115 Ibid., Palestine’s ICHR Zoom Interview.
116 Ibid.
117 Ibid.
118 Ibid.
119 Ibid.
120 Ibid.
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