A/HRC/12/29 page 6 and practitioners to debate political and methodological challenges in measuring compliance with the right to development. It also facilitated expert assessments of the existing right to development criteria with a view to revising them and making them operational and reflective of standards of qualitative and quantitative evaluation used in international institutions and recognized by leading social scientists. Thus the outcome of this meeting fed into the work of the high-level task force in the refinement of the criteria. E. Financing for development 18. OHCHR, in cooperation with the Center for Concern and ESCR-Net (International Network for Economic, Social & Cultural Rights), facilitated civil society consultations from 15 to 17 September 2008 to discuss and debate the main themes in the financing for development agenda from the perspective of human rights. The consultations aimed at integrating human rights, including the right to development, in financing for development against the backdrop of challenging development issues given the volatility and crises in the world economy, that have tended to overshadow the Doha development agenda and the need for a new economic and social framework that not only prevents future crises, but provides for fairness in their resolution. The meeting brought together a number of participants, including human rights and development experts and civil society groups from different regions, and resulted in a set of consolidated comments on the draft outcome document for the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, held in Doha from 29 November to 2 December 2008. F. Aid effectiveness, human rights and gender equality 19. Aid effectiveness, with its emphasis on ownership, harmonization, alignment, managing for results and mutual accountability, aims to increase the impact of aid in reducing poverty and inequality and accelerating the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. In collaboration with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), OHCHR has developed a joint working paper to provide strategic input to the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra to articulate advocacy strategies and messages for the aid effectiveness agenda from the perspective of human rights and gender equality. G. Millennium Development Goals and poverty reduction 20. OHCHR has continued to work closely with development partners at the international and national levels to explore how human rights, including the right to development, can support the efforts of Member States to achieve inclusive development processes and equitable and sustainable poverty reduction outcomes. OHCHR has developed a conceptual framework to assess poverty reduction strategies from a human rights perspective which should contribute to further operationalizing the links between human rights and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. A publication “Claiming the Millennium Development Goals: A human rights approach” was produced in 2008, which aimed to provide guidance for policymakers and practitioners to strengthen policies based on the Millennium Development Goals and United Nations programming from a human rights perspective, and promoting a wider understanding on the linkages between the Goals and human rights, including the close relationship between Goal 8 and the right to development. Based on the approach set out in