A/HRC/13/25 persons belonging to minorities in the skills of negotiation, communication, advocacy, policymaking and governance; (c) Engage constructively with parliament, local councils and government agencies at all levels by clearly articulating policy options and utilizing citizen initiatives to promote a defined legislative agenda; (d) Coordinate and network more effectively, both among minority nongovernmental organizations and across ethnic lines, to share best practices and lessons learned, maximize resources, avoid duplication of projects and develop more effective issue-based coalitions; (e) Increase minority leaders’ effectiveness in government through training, and the training of trainers for the organizations of minorities, on legislative processes, drafting, debate, coalition-building, advocacy, strategic planning and public speaking; they should involve members of the majority in training to strengthen their support for the participation of minorities; (f) Cooperate with other stakeholders to advocate appropriate legal reforms to advance the role of minorities in government. E. United Nations human rights mechanisms 38. Relevant treaty bodies and special procedures should continue to pay attention to the effective political participation of minorities and the obstacles to the effective realization of their rights during their dialogue with States parties on the implementation of their treaty obligations, as well as the measures taken to eliminate all forms of discrimination. They should encourage States parties to involve minorities in all stages of the monitoring and implementation process of international treaty obligations. F. The international community and United Nations agencies 39. The international community should allocate sufficient resources to projects aimed at ensuring political participation of minorities, enhancing civic engagement and education and promoting issue-based advocacy by minorities. A United Nations voluntary fund for minorities should be established with a mandate to channel support for such initiatives. 40. All intergovernmental structures that engage with civil society at the global and regional levels should take concrete steps to ensure that persons belonging to minority groups are able to participate in those processes. 41. United Nations agencies should support the implementation of recommendations of United Nations human rights mechanisms relating to the political participation of minorities by, inter alia, ensuring the translation of recommendations into minority languages and their broad dissemination and facilitating the use of the recommendations by all relevant actors at the national level, taking into account the observations and recommendations of United Nations human rights mechanisms and procedures when preparing United Nations planning instruments, such as the Common Country Assessment/United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks and agencies’ specific programmes. 42. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights should: (a) Sponsor training workshops to support the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, including reference to recommendations of the Forum on the effective political participation of minorities; GE.10-10615 7