Activities and Programmes Branch
The core functions of  the Activities and Programmes Branch are as follows:
(a) Developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating advisory services and technical assistance projects at the request of Governments;

(b) Managing the Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights;
(c) Administering the Plan of Action of the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, including the development of information and educational material;
(d) Providing substantive and administrative support to human rights fact- finding and investigatory mechanisms, such as special rapporteurs, repre- sentatives and experts and working groups mandated by the Commis- sion on Human Rights and/or the Economic and Social Council to deal with specific country situations or phenomena of human rights viola- tions worldwide, as well as the General Assembly’s Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestin- ian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories;
(e) Planning, supporting and evaluating human rights field presence and mis- sions, including the formulation and development of best practices, proce- dural methodology and models for all human rights activities in the field;
(f) Managing voluntary funds for human rights field presence.