q) To provide clerical support to the Secretary’s Advisory Board and Board of Directors; r) To supervise the services of the Territorial Delegations and to ensure the relation between Territorial Delegations with other services of the Provedoria; s) To give assistance from Secretariat to the Advisory Council and Council of Directors of the Provedoria; t) Any other duties assigned by the law or by the Provedor for Human Rights and Justice. 3. The Executive Secretary, for the legal effects and salaries is equivalent to the directorgeneral and is responsible directly to the Provedor of Human Rights and Justice. Article 8 Directorate of Monitoring and Recommendation 1. The Directorate of Monitoring and Recommendation is the Secretariat’s specialized technical service in the areas of monitoring and recommendation of the results of monitoring, protection of human rights and the implementation of the principles of good governance nationwide. 2. The Directorate of Monitoring and Recommendation has the following duties: a. Supervising the functionality of public powers, the Government and other sovereign bodies, political parties and other entities and powers that might otherwise influence its work. b. Doing research and providing advices to ensure the gender equality within legislative actions and submitting recommendation to the Provedor, when is necessary, can request for the alteration; c. Preparing and planning activities specifically for monitoring of actions and omissions of public power within the areas of good governance and human rights, with special attention to women rights. d. Performing monitoring activities and forwarding necessary recommendations to the relevant institutions, based on the results of activities, improving and doing the best services to reduce the violations against human rights and principles of good governance. e. Ensuring the effective participation of territorial delegations of Provedoria in collecting data for the Monitoring program, including sessions of capacity and implementation of monitoring activities in the field; f. Providing collaboration to the competent entities object of their activities;