III. Community Based-Dialogues (CBD) The community-based dialogue is one of CHR’s interactive methods to bring together people on the ground across all sectors to participate in a dialogue in order to discuss issues of interest and attempt to build common grounds and bridges by which the concerns could be initially addressed if not immediately resolved. In the context of human rights promotion and prevention, the CHR has always upheld the view of helping communities grow and develop as human rights-oriented spaces where all parties and participants actively and vibrantly play their respective roles as influencers, conscience-providers and consensus-builders. Through the community-based dialogue, the CHR has been providing opportunities for expanding its onground partners and constituencies while launching initiatives to promote HR issues, stimulate grassroots opinion, and develop the capacities of the participants to make constructive decisions and carry out the corresponding action plans. In 2021, CHR conducted a total of 20 CBDs to various sectors including the Homeless, Child, Youth, PWD, and the General Public. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Support to Operations and General Administration Services Extending support to national and regional offices operations and making available all general administrative services form part of the regular programming of the CHR. This kind of support enables and ensures the professional, competent and cost-effective functioning of all departments in the CHR not only as a government agency and organization, but also as an NHRI. Under the periodic strategies and plan of action for operational support and administrative services, the CHR devises and undertakes programs, projects and activities that align with and meet the needs and requirements for the target performance and outcomes for any given year. The same component serves as starting point for all objectives and actions toward policy framing, program augmentation, competent planning, and review and advancement on a daily basis and for the long term. I. Capacity Buildings The CHR has consistently espoused institutional capacity building by carrying out internal training activities that are all aimed at developing the needed organizational competencies, boosting and sustaining its individual and organizational potentials, further honing actual capacities and resources, and achieving its mandated objectives and goals over the targeted period of time. It has always been clear to the CHR that capacity development is a crucial prerequisite if it is to be adequately qualified and further specialized in its work as an NHRI. While the training engagements form the bulk of CHR’s current efforts to promote and facilitate opportunities for capacity-building, it keeps in mind the need to further its training interventions with other more stable and enduring forms of all-rounded development modules and applications. These further measures will be geared at propagating the knowledge and capacity base and thus provide the enabling environment for long term human rights promotion and protection actions. 25