Electoral assistance
The Technical Cooperation Programme has been providing electoral assis- tance for more than five years. Specific activities which the OHCHR has undertaken in this regard include the preparation of guidelines for analysis of electoral laws and procedures, publication of a handbook on human rights and elections, development of draft guidelines for human rights assessment of requests for electoral assistance and various public information activities relating to human rights and elections.

Treaty reporting and training of government officials
The OHCHR organizes training courses at regular intervals to enable govern- ment officials to draft reports in keeping with the guidelines establishing the various international human rights treaties to which their State is a party. Courses on reporting obligations may be provided at national or at regional

level. Alternatively, training courses may be organized under the human rights fellowship programme: participants take part in workshops with experts from the various treaty-monitoring committees, as well as with staff from the Office. They are provided with a copy of OHCHR’s Manual on Human Rights Reporting and, whenever possible, are given the opportunity to observe meetings of treaty bodies.