NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 116 training programmes were successfully organized by 98 institutions, Universities/Colleges, Administrative and Police Training Institutes and Non-Government Organizations. In addition, 09 training programmes of 04 institutes, approved for the year 2015-16, were also conducted during 2016-17, thus taking the overall total to 125 training programmes conducted by 102 institutes. INTERNATIONAL 2.62 National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) that comply with the principles relating to the status of national institutions, commonly known as the Paris Principles, are playing a crucial role in promoting and monitoring the effective implementation of international human rights standards at the national level. Through the Universal Periodic Review, treaty monitoring bodies, and other international human rights mechanisms, every State is being encouraged to establish an effective, independent NHRI that complies with the Paris Principles as well as strengthen it where already existing. NHRIs encourage cooperation with a range of actors, among which the United Nations and, in particular, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) besides the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (International Coordinating Committee/ICC), now renamed as GANHRI, and the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF) are of significance. 2.63 During the period under review, the National Human Rights Commission of India, which is a member of the GANHRI and a founder member of the APF participated in a number of meetings, seminars, workshops and interaction with foreign delegates in the Commission. Cooperation with Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) 2.64 The International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (ICC), renamed as GANHRI, is a representative body of National Human Rights Institutions established for the purpose of creating and strengthening National Human Rights Institutions which are in conformity with the Paris Principles. It performs this role through encouraging international co-ordination of joint activities and co-operation among these National Human Rights Institutions, organizing international conferences, liaison with the United Nations and other international organizations and, where requested, assisting governments to establish a National Institution. It works to create and strengthen National Institutions and to ensure that they conform to the Paris Principles. In all its activities and in its Presidency, Committees, Working Groups, etc., the GANHRI will ensure gender equality. NHRC, India ANNUAL REPORT 2016-2017 25