THEME IV: PREPARATION OF A SPECIALISED PROGRAM TO PROMOTE CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS AND SUPPORT ITS VALUES The interest in promoting the rights of citizenship and supporting the values thereof is the key way to promote human rights culture for all segments of society. To that end, NIHR intends to prepare an integrated sustainable project in cooperation with all relevant parties. This will be accomplished through: 1. Preparing an integrated awareness program related to citizenship rights and their values, identifying the deficiencies in these rights in order to raise awareness of and develop these rights. 2. Holding a regular annual or biennial national conference with the participation of the government and non-government institutions, and all other relevant parties in order to agree on a national action program and make practical recommendations and proposals to be followed in legislation, public policies, practice and everyday behaviour. 3. Taking the initiative and participating in enforcing recommendations and proposals in collaboration with the other relevant parties in order to ensure equality, equal opportunity and elimination of discrimination as fundamental bases of citizenship and tools to enhance the sense of national belonging, in line with the international standards of human rights and the Kingdom’s obligations related thereto. THEME V: REINFORCEMENT OF COOPERATION REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVELS AT THE NATIONAL, Cooperation in the field of human rights at the national, regional and international levels is one of the key themes for strengthening NIHR role in carrying out its duties and functions, and meeting the requirements for activating its strategy. This includes: 1. COOPERATION AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL - Cooperating with the State legislative, executive and judicial authorities, and benefiting in particular from the concerned competent authorities, particularly the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry, the competent departments of the ministries, Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights, other relevant parliamentary committees, High Coordinating Committee for Human Rights in Bahrain, and diplomatic missions accredited to the Kingdom. - Cooperating with other relevant national institutions and bodies by signing memoranda of understanding with these bodies, notably institutes concerned with political development and public administration, studies and research centres, and national governmental and non-governmental committees and structures concerned with the activation of plans related to human rights, and coordinating with them to activate the recommendations of the overall periodic review of human rights and the final recommendations of contractual mechanisms with regard to the promotion of the realization of human rights in the Kingdom. - Cooperating with the relevant civil society institutions, taking advantage of their 13