UNDG Strategy for the Deployment of Human Rights Advisers to Resident Coordinators and UN Country Teams

Deployment of Human Rights Advisers to UN country teams was one of the key commitments and contributions of OHCHR to UN agencies’ work at country level under the Action 2 interagency plan of action adopted in 2003 to strengthen the capacity of UN country teams and national human rights protection systems. Accordingly, the Action 2 Global Programme (2004-2009) was set up to support the implementation of the interagency plan, which provided catalytic support to UN country teams by deploying Human Rights Advisers at the request of Resident Coordinators. A total of 10 HRAs were deployed with the initial funding of Action 2, supplemented by co-funding by the requesting UN country teams and/or OHCHR.