A/HRC/20/29 the impact on specific groups, the implications for the State duty to protect, due diligence by business and provision of remedy with regard to the situation of indigenous peoples is yet another area for further clarification, including as it relates to the issue of consultation. While the Working Group cannot examine all the questions and dilemmas that may arise in the course of implementation of the Guiding Principles, it will identify and clarify the most salient issues wherever possible, and then encourage partners, including academic and practitioner networks, to develop and disseminate solutions appropriate to specific challenges, such as those arising with regard to particular industry sectors, geographies, stakeholder groups or business relationships. 71. Under the above four focus areas, the Working Group proposes to use “learning labs” to support States and business enterprises to address common implementation challenges. In the case of business, these challenges include the incorporation of human rights into risk management and due diligence processes, supply chains and grievance mechanisms. In the case of States, these include advancing policy coherence, identifying roles for national and subnational public agencies, and building capacity of public accountability bodies and judicial and non-judicial mechanisms. These learning labs will provide opportunities to cross-share lessons learned, and identify and understand winning approaches, in order to build on the successes of others. 3. Embedding in global governance frameworks 72. As its third major platform of work, the Working Group will seek to promote incorporation of the Framework and Guiding Principles into global governance frameworks. To this end, the Working Group will proactively seek to engage with institutions overseeing existing and emerging governance frameworks that are able to play a significant role in requiring, or otherwise encouraging, business enterprises and States to implement the Guiding Principles. The Working Group will encourage the embedding of the Guiding Principles into such frameworks, including regional and international agreements and institutions, industry associations, and responsibility, sustainability and investor ranking indices, among others. 34 Guided by these considerations, and taking into account available resources and capacity, the Working Group will prioritize its engagement relating to those governance frameworks that (a) have effective accountability mechanisms; (b) can demonstrate a track record of adherence by members/participants to their tenets; (c) apply to a large number of actors; and (d) provide effective grievance mechanisms for affected individuals. 73. Throughout its work, the Working Group will seek to promote an active role for United Nations bodies in achieving the goals of its mandate. 35 In this regard, the Working Group welcomes the mandate given to it by Human Rights Council to work in close cooperation and coordination and to develop regular dialogue with other relevant special procedures of the Human Rights Council, relevant United Nations and other international bodies, including the human rights treaty bodies. The importance of such coordination, 34 35 As an example of the role of the Working Group in promoting alignment of other frameworks with the Guiding Principles, see its background note to Governments involved with negotiating the Rio +20 outcome documents, available from www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/SP/BNUNGuidingPrinciplesBusinessHR.pdf. In 17/4, the Human Rights Council also requested the Secretary-General to prepare a report on how the United Nations system as a whole, including programmes and funds and specialized agencies, could contribute to the advancement of the business and human rights agenda and the dissemination and implementation of the Guiding Principles, addressing in particular how capacity-building of all relevant actors to this end could best be addressed within the United Nations system. The report will be presented to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-first session. 17

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