Overview
At the outset, OHCHR was predominantly involved in standard setting and monitoring of UN Member States’ human rights obligations as well as human rights conditions in Member States. RBM only made its way into OHCHR in the late 1990s, when the Office took on additional tasks such as human rights advocacy, technical assistance and capacity building of governmental and civil society partners. Since then, and especially during the past decade, OHCHR has undertaken various efforts to instil a results culture within the Office, as a way to enhance understanding and implementation of OHCHR’s strategic direction, establish more timely and transparent strategic decision-making processes, as well as to achieve and measure greater impact. OHCHR took numerous Initiatives to apply RBM principles, as evidenced by more appropriate use of RBM principles in the daily work of staff and in the focus on results in OHCHR Management Plans (OMPs) and annual reports. In its OMP 2014-17, the Office committed itself to ensure the ongoing integration of RBM into its work and facilitate the effective and efficient functioning of internal decision-making bodies. This approach was reiterated in the OMP 2018-21.