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to business and human rights, and on enhancing access to effective remedies. Technical
cooperation and advice will be conducted in a constructive manner and based on dialogue.
80.
Given the nature of its mandate, and depending on the particular issue being
addressed, the Working Group will seek to engage with Government authorities and public
entities at different levels and across different functions. This will include governmental
departments, agencies and other State-based institutions that shape business practices.
81.
The Working Group welcomes the steps already initiated to explore how States and
intergovernmental organizations can implement various aspects of the Guiding Principles
through policy frameworks and guidance for business enterprises. In its efforts to identify
good practices and lessons learned on aspects related to the State duty to protect and
enhancing access to remedies, the Working Group will naturally seek to engage closely
with these States and organizations, including by identifying challenges that may be
addressed to promote further effective implementation. The Working Group also intends to
engage with States in all regions in order to raise awareness of the Guiding Principles as
widely as possible and to assist in the process of exchanging and promoting good practices.
C.
Engagement with other stakeholders
82.
The Working Group aims to identify opportunities for strategic collaboration with
those organizations identified within the resolution establishing the mandate, including
relevant special procedures of the Human Rights Council, United Nations bodies,
specialized agencies, funds and programmes, other international bodies, Governments,
transnational corporations and other business enterprises, national human rights institutions,
representatives of indigenous peoples, civil society organizations, regional and subregional
organizations.38 Further to these, the Working Group seeks to establish both direct and
indirect collaboration with business associations, academic institutions and think tanks,
industry round tables, multi-stakeholder initiatives, trade union federations, thought leaders,
human rights defenders addressing business activities and grass-roots organizations.
83.
The specific nature of the collaboration with different partners will be shaped by the
considerations outlined in the strategy section, including the ability of the collaboration to
be a “multiplier” and exponentially reach a wider audience than would be possible through
the effort of the Working Group acting alone, and extend stakeholder groups in terms of
both the type of stakeholders (for example, actors from different regions of the world) and
the breadth within each stakeholder group (for example, from transnational corporations to
small and medium-sized enterprises within the business stakeholder group).
VIII. Working methods
84.
Following the deliberations held at its first session, and on the basis of inputs and
submissions received from States and other relevant stakeholders prior to and during the
session itself, the Working Group issued a statement on the methods of work it intends to
follow in the implementation of its mandate.
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For example, members of the Working Group have engaged with the United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development in preparation for the 2012 World Investment Report.
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