A/HRC/41/50 human rights action plans, continued to increase the protection of human rights and further improved the level and quality of people’s lives. The promotion of economic, social and cultural rights has been comprehensively strengthened. Civil and political rights are effectively protected. Awareness about respecting and safeguarding human rights has been significantly enhanced throughout society. International human rights exchange and cooperation has continuously been promoted. The cause of human rights with Chinese socialism characteristics has been stepped onto a new level. In the implementation of the national human rights action plan, the Government has given priority to the protection of the right to development, and made efforts to solve the direct and current problems that concern most people, to ensure that all members of society enjoy equal participation in the promotion of economic and social development. In addition, the Government has established special action plans for economic, cultural, social and environmental development, relating to, inter alia, poverty alleviation, the Internet, innovation, technology, trade, regional development, social security, education, health and the environment. The action plans are aimed at effectively protecting all aspects of human rights for all citizens, including those belonging to ethnic minorities, women, children, elderly persons and persons with disabilities.27 38. In Spain, all international human rights instruments that have been endorsed by the State are fully supported in all five master plans that have guided Spanish cooperation efforts to date. The Government follows several strategies, such as the peacebuilding strategy, the women and peacebuilding action plan and the strategy for culture and development, and the work of the Spanish embassies and the overseas cooperation units of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation. The Government works through country partnership frameworks and strategic association agreements with multilateral development organizations and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation.28 39. In October 2017, the Government of Italy finalized and adopted its National Sustainable Development Strategy, the draft version of which had been introduced during the voluntary national review at the 2017 high-level political forum on sustainable development. The aim of the Strategy is to define a strategic framework to lay the foundations for a sustainable future and adjust the route taken for national reform from a long-term perspective. The road to integrating the Sustainable Development Goals into national economic, social and environmental programmes is still long, but the National Strategy is a first step of a multilevel and multi-stakeholder process meant to combine a set of sectoral policy instruments and national plans into one single policy framework. The next steps are to build stronger and more effective convergence between the current single policies and measures and the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals, and to establish intersectoral coordination mechanisms in order to create synergy between existing and new or revised policies required for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. One of the most innovative and large-scale projects implemented by the Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII Association, a non-governmental organization, is a network of social cooperatives gathered in a sharing consortium, aiming at integrating disadvantaged persons and persons with disabilities into society and the employment market.29 40. The United Republic of Tanzania has developed and implemented several development policies and programmes. The Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance, designed to play a wide-ranging role within its mandate under the Constitution, spearheaded the formulation and implementation of the National Human Rights Action Plan 2013–2017.30 The Plan established a comprehensive national system for the protection and promotion of human rights through specific activities and actions. Under the Plan, the 27 28 29 30 Contribution from China. Contribution from Spain. Contribution from the Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII Association. The National Human Rights Action Plan was developed by the Government under the Ministry of Constitutional and Legal Affairs. The formulation process, which began in 2008, involved a number of key stakeholders, including representatives from government departments, civil society organizations, the United Nations and academic institutions. 13