OHCHR deployed a Human Rights Adviser (HRA) to the UN Resident Coordinator and UN Country Team (UNCT) in Ecuador in May 2007, with the aim of assisting the UNCT in implementing capacity-building projects on human rights in the judiciary and supporting the UNCT on human rights-based programming. Although the initial mandate focused on supporting the judiciary and later the constitutional reform process, since 2010, the HRA has also prioritized working on mainstreaming human rights in the Government-led national planning development process.
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