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teams, should receive comprehensive minority rights training. The United
Nations System Staff College, within the framework of the newly established
Conflict Prevention Analysis for Action Network, should consider developing
modules focused on minorities to improve the understanding of those issues
among staff.
105. Consideration should be given to adding an expert on minority rights to
the standby team of mediation experts in the Department of Political Affairs.
Additional consideration could be given to involving the team in country
situations at an earlier point on the conflict continuum that runs between the
expression of grievances to the outbreak of violence.
106. The United Nations should develop an inter-agency guidance note on
addressing minority issues to include, inter alia: how to consult with minority
communities in order to capture the diversity of positions; how to involve civil
society organizations working with minority communities in United Nations
conflict prevention work; and how to develop context-specific early warning
indicators.
107. United Nations country teams should analyse the extent to which
discrimination on ethnic, religious and linguistic grounds creates disparities in
outcomes relating to their programming. Country teams should promote and
support the collection of disaggregated data on minorities. All existing
programmes should be assessed and revised based on that analysis. Minority
communities should participate fully at all stages of programming from
research and design to monitoring and evaluation.
108. Effective steps should be taken to ensure that the national staff
composition of the United Nations country teams is inclusive of persons from
minority communities.
109. The United Nations should continue to make efforts to share the
experiences of a variety of agencies with early warning methodologies,
including those systems which combine quantitative and qualitative indicators,
and should incorporate minority rights indicators so that all agencies,
departments and country offices can draw on the best available practice.
110. Communications between the human rights institutions in Geneva and the
peace and security institutions in New York should be strengthened further.
Regular communications at a working level between the country desk officers
of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and
their colleagues in the Department of Political Affairs and the Department of
Peacekeeping Operations would promote the sharing of information and
common understanding of minority rights situations in countries.
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