Common use of Objectives and Functions Clause in Contracts

Objectives and Functions. 1. The main objective of the Centre shall be to contribute to efforts at the global, regional and sub-regional levels aimed at empowering regional and local authorities to mainstream human rights and gender equality and to promote inclusion across their areas of work in line with the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and notably Sustainable Development Goal 11 “Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable” and also with relevant commitments of the New Urban Agenda. 2. The Centre shall promote: (a) Capacity-building, including the provision of technical advice and training through appropriate methodologies and implementation instruments, at the local and regional level to support the implementation of a human rights-based approach (“HRBA”) throughout the programming cycle (planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation); (b) Interdisciplinary research on mainstreaming human rights at the local level, including on monitoring and evaluation, to be widely disseminated and also to serve as knowledge base for other functions; (c) The setting up of a clearing-house encompassing, inter alia, the systematic collection, analysis and wide dissemination of good practices at city-level among various networks; (d) Cooperation and networking with international, regional and local governments and organizations (particularly with UN agencies, programmes and bodies, UNESCO chairs, the Council of Europe, the League of Arab States, the Organization of American States and others) and networks (such as ICCAR, United Cities and Local Governments, Conference of Human Rights Cities), local and regional authorities, academia and civil society organizations active in the field of local and regional human rights implementation.

Objectives and Functions. 1. The main objective of the Centre shall be to contribute to efforts at the global, regional and sub-regional levels aimed at empowering regional and local authorities to mainstream human rights and gender equality and to promote inclusion across their areas of work in line with the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and notably Sustainable Development Goal 11 “Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable” and also with relevant commitments of the New Urban Agenda. 2. The Centre shall promote: (a) 1. Capacity-building, including the provision of technical advice and training through appropriate methodologies and implementation instruments, at the local and regional level to support the implementation of a human rights-rights based approach (“HRBA”) throughout the programming cycle (planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation); (b) 2. Interdisciplinary research on mainstreaming human rights at the local level, including on monitoring and evaluation, to be widely disseminated and also to serve as knowledge base for other functions; (c) 3. The setting up of a clearing-house encompassing, inter alia, the systematic collection, analysis and wide dissemination of good practices at city-level among various networks;; and (d) 4. Cooperation and networking with international, regional and local governments and organizations (particularly with UN agencies, programmes programs and bodies, UNESCO chairs, the Council of Europe, the League of Arab States, the Organization of American States and others) and networks (such as ICCAR, United Cities and Local Governments, Conference of Human Rights Cities), local and regional authorities, academia and civil society organizations active in the field of local and regional human rights implementation.