UNCT strategies to encourage and promote dialogue and national consensus:

• Support a workshop, seminar or meeting with OHCHR, UNDP and key stakeholders
• ‘Seed’ the area, that is, increase receptivity to the concept of NHRIs. This can be done by:
• inviting NHRIs from the region, regional coordinating bodies and/or practitioners to foster exchanges
• Organizing meetings with key stakeholders to examine the Paris Principles and best practices
• Sponsoring seminars or workshops on NHRIs looking at regional successes, and engaging NHRIs from countries in the region to provide advice and guidance, in collaboration with regional NHRI networks, if such exist
• Ensure that the dialogue is informed by the Paris Principles
• Encourage the engagement of stakeholders (see the checklist, above, in Section 7.2)
• Engaging regional NHRI Networks since they will be best able to speak to the practical realities of NHRIs and respond to any concerns
• Sharing basic information about the nature and functions of NHRIs, and perhaps concrete examples of how NHRIs may assist in protecting and promoting human rights, to provide to local stakeholders
• Sponsoring other interactions between key potential national stakeholders and practitioners and/or experts, as well as contact between national NGOs and International and Regional NGOs dealing with NHRIs (again, potentially, through Regional Networks), as a way to diminish misconceptions or fears the NGOs might have about the creation of an Institution.