A/HRC/45/15/Add.1 traditions of participatory, consultative and decision-making processes are in line with the spirit of the Declaration on the Right to Development. 80. The Special Rapporteur has identified some remaining challenges and presents his recommendations on addressing these challenges to the Government and all relevant stakeholders. 81. The Special Rapporteur appeals to Switzerland to honour its commitment to allocate 0.7 per cent of its gross national income to official development assistance, as provided for in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development and the 2030 Agenda. The Special Rapporteur recommends expanding the scope of the sustainable development chapters of trade agreements to include a broader range of human rights issues and to strengthen the enforcement clauses for these provisions within the agreements. He also recommends that the Government of Switzerland conduct human rights impact assessments parallel to the negotiation process, to ensure that the concluded trade agreements do not have adverse impacts on human rights. 82. In relation to the practical implementation of development assistance in various parts of the developing world, the Special Rapporteur urges the Swiss authorities to consider using human rights impact assessments to evaluate the potential impact of the programmes and projects it finances. Such assessments are not aimed at imposing conditionalities on the receiving partners, but rather are geared towards ensuring that the programmes do not have an adverse impact on human rights, including the right to development. 83. With regard to the institutional mechanisms created to facilitate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, the Special Rapporteur encourages the creation of a centralized operational unit tasked to support and coordinate in a coherent manner the drafting of specific implementation plans for the different sectors at the federal level and to support the cantons and municipalities in implementing their own 2030 Agenda action plans. 84. The Special Rapporteur recommends that Switzerland systematically develop and apply disability-specific indicators when setting and measuring development targets, and to factor in the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators related to disability39 and the Washington Group short set of questions on disability.40 He urges the Government to actively include people with disabilities, and their organizations, in all political and other relevant strategy, planning, implementation and monitoring processes. 85. The Special Rapporteur urges the Government to implement the marker for the inclusion and empowerment of persons with disabilities as soon as possible to enable it to track its spending related to persons with disabilities in supported countries. 86. The Special Rapporteur also recommends that the implementation of the international cooperation strategy for 2021–2024 systematically include persons with disabilities. Additionally, he urges the agencies responsible for the implementation of the international cooperation programmes on the ground (the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs) to revise their operational guidelines in order to consult in a meaningful way with persons with disabilities and their respective organizations in the respective countries. 87. The Special Rapporteur recommends developing a specific strategy to include people with disabilities in international cooperation and humanitarian aid work, 39 40 See www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/news/news/disability-indicators-in-proposed-for-thesdgs.html. See www.washingtongroup-disability.com/washington-group-question-sets/short-set-of-disabilityquestions/. 17