during phase one of the project and lessons learnt experiences were taken into account in
designing the project.
The first phase of this task as well as the second phase were planned to incorporate the project
into the day to day mandated functions of the HRCSL to enhance its effectiveness and efficiency.
During the first phase of the United Nations Joint support to HRCSL from 2010 Jan to 2012
December HRCSL wanted to address the issues identified by the ICC in downgrading HRCSL in
2007 with the aim of rectifying the gaps in order to regain A status.
Therefore, the first phase mainly concentrated on the strengthening of coordination and
functional mechanisms within HRCSL, supporting HRC to disseminate information, supporting
HRCSL to collaborate more effectively with Civil Society (CS) and government institutions, and
building HRC’s capacity to make recommendations to the government to ensure national laws &
administrative practices are in accordance with international human rights norms and standards.
As a consequence, under the above mentioned key activity result areas the first phase of the UN
project delivered the following main activities/outputs from 2010 Jan to 2012 Dec. However, it
should be noted that the execution of project activities was extremely challenging- both internal
and external challenges- due to the prevailing political climate at the time which was not
particularly supportive of, or conducive to human rights related interventions.
6.2. Activities of phase 1
During the first phase of the project coordination and functional mechanisms within HRCSL
were strengthened to effectively deliver their mandate. The project outputs are as follows:
a) Support combined quarterly coordination, review & monitoring meetings among regional
coordinators and HRCSL HO senior staff and Commissioners thereby reviving internal
coordination within HRCSL, which had been dysfunctional from prior to 2010.
b) Visits to regions by Commissioners and senior staff from HRCSL head office, in order to
strengthen coordination & monitoring within HRCSL.
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