Identify key challenges and opportunities for UNCT staff who are called upon to support NHRIs during the establishment phase, and provide specific guidance using the international human rights framework and concrete case studies.
Building on the pre-establishment phase (Chapter 7), this chapter provides guidance on the phase from the enabling law to the basic elements of setting up the institution.
UNCTs can have a role in supporting projects to ensure that institutions function effectively across each area, or all of them, while dealing with common challenges during this period of growth. While the issues facing every organisation will vary, UNCTs can have a central role in supporting capacity development in each area.
Tools and strategies are developed with an eye to complying with the international framework, especially the Paris Principles.
This section is meant to allow UNCTs to develop successful projects, but it is not intended to suggest that UNCTs should second guess NHRI management or otherwise challenge the NHRI's decision-making.
The issues dealt with in the establishment phase are focused on developing capacity in each of the areas identified above: they create benchmarks, baseline information and targets that can then be the subject of capacity assessment in the consolidation phase. See Chapter 9.