Acknowledgements The United Nations Development Programme – Bangkok Regional Hub (UNDP – BRH) and the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF) have worked together to promote human rights in relation to Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC) since 2015. This Guide was developed as a result of an APF – UNDP BRH partnership agreement project that was implemented between June 2021 – March 2022. The APF is most grateful to Dodo Karsay, the primary author of this resource, Jack Byrne, and Maria Aïcha Boumeddiene for their expert contributions to the development of this resource and overall capacity development project. The APF also acknowledges the critical contributions of NHRI participants of the 2021 APF online course on promoting and protecting human rights in relation to SOGIESC, and in particular the NHRIs of Fiji, New Zealand, Mongolia, Philippines, Thailand and Timor-Leste. 3