Part Eight
MEANS OF ACHIEVING THE STRATEGIC
OBJECTIVES
The NHRC intends to achieve its strategic objectives
by:
A. Making the most out of the Human Rights
Commission Act, 1997 (B.S. 2053).
The NHRC will implement and enforce all the
provisions of Human Rights Commission Act, 1997
(B.S. 2053) to the optimum level to bring about
positive changes in the attitude and behaviour of
human rights violators.
B. Reorganizing and enhancing organizational
capacity:
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The Office of the National Rapporteur on
Trafficking in Women and Children will be
entrusted with the programme responsibilities
related to the issues of women and children being
addressed
by
this
strategic
plan. The Office will be strengthened and
integrated to NHRC’s structure for optimum
and effective use of human resources. Existing
staff positions and the need for new positions
will be reviewed by January 2004 with the
assistance of United Nations Development
Programme led capacity development project of
the NHRC.
The role and the authority of the Secretary of
the NHRC will be clearly spelled out taking the
needs of the NHRC and the experiences of other
NHRIs by February 2004.
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Introduction and enforcement of a code of
conduct for the Members and the staff by
February 2004.
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Additional staff already identified during the restructuring exercise in the past, but so far not
recruited due to budget constraint, and new posts
will be recruited by March 2004.
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A plan of action for decentralization of decisionmaking process for efficient execution of daily
work, especially complaint handling, will be
prepared and implemented. The complaint
handling procedure, which is in early phase of
development, will consider the experience of this
arrangement and further refine the procedures
by February 2004.
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Recruitment of senior level professionals to
support the NHRC in improving management,
administration and implementation of the strategic
plan by February 2004.
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Mobilizing external resources in conjunction with
program activities to make the salary and benefit
packages of the staff are appropriate to retain
and draw highly motivated and able people to
meet the challenges.