A/RES/56/167 national plans of action for human rights education and information, taking into consideration the recommendations of the mid-term global evaluation of the Decade 8 and the guidelines for national plans of action for human rights education developed by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; 10 (b) Encouraging, supporting and involving national and local nongovernmental and community-based organizations in the implementation of their national plans of action; (c) Initiating and developing cultural and educational programmes aimed at countering racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, and supporting and implementing public information campaigns and specific training programmes in the field of human rights, as emphasized at the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance; 5. Encourages Governments to consider, within their national plans of action for human rights education: (a) The establishment of public access human rights resource and training centres capable of engaging in research, including the gender-sensitive training of trainers; (b) The preparation, collection, translation and dissemination of human rights education and training materials; (c) The organization of courses, conferences, workshops and public information campaigns and assistance in the implementation of internationally sponsored technical cooperation projects for human rights education and public information; 6. Encourages States, where such national public access human rights resource and training centres exist, to strengthen their capacity to support human rights education and public information programmes at the international, regional, national and local levels; 7. Calls upon Governments, in accordance with national conditions, to accord priority to the dissemination, in the relevant national local and indigenous languages, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International Covenants on Human Rights 11 and other human rights instruments, human rights materials and training manuals, including information on human rights mechanisms and complaint procedures and reports of States parties submitted under international human rights treaties, and to provide information and education in those languages on the practical ways in which national and international institutions and procedures may be utilized to ensure the effective implementation of those instruments; 8. Encourages Governments to support further, through voluntary contributions, the education and public information efforts undertaken by the Office of the High Commissioner within the framework of the Plan of Action; 9. Requests the High Commissioner to continue to coordinate and harmonize human rights education and information strategies within the United Nations system, including the implementation of the Plan of Action, in cooperation, inter alia, with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural _______________ 10 11 4 A/52/469/Add.1 and Corr.1. Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.