A/HRC/43/3 19. OHCHR also participated in the high-level political forum under the auspices of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council. In December, OHCHR organized a second intersessional meeting of the Human Rights Council for dialogue and cooperation on human rights and the 2030 Agenda. Its report (A/HRC/43/33) will serve as an official input for the forthcoming meeting of the high-level political forum. 20. Alongside five United Nations agencies and the United Nations Global Compact, OHCHR co-facilitated the secretariat of the Global Alliance for Reporting Progress on Promoting Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, which launched its report entitled Enabling the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda through SDG 16+ – Anchoring Peace, Justice and Inclusion.9 21. OHCHR also actively engaged in the ongoing reform of the United Nations development system. Through its contributions it helped to ensure that the new guidance for the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework had a strong normative and human rights foundation. As co-lead of the inter-agency Task Team on leaving no one behind, human rights and the normative agenda under the auspices of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group, OHCHR played a leadership role in different workstreams, notably on resident coordinator leadership on human rights issues, the deployment of human rights advisers and the piloting of the operational guide for country teams on leaving no one behind in Cameroon, Nepal and Tunisia. 2. Right to development 22. OHCHR continued its efforts to mainstream the right to development. In October 2019, it convened an expert meeting to develop a draft legally binding instrument on the right to development, in support of the Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group on the Right to Development. OHCHR also supported the Special Rapporteur on the right to development with developing a tool on how to design, monitor and assess human rightsmotivated development policies, which was launched in September. 3. International financial institutions 23. Policy engagement by OHCHR on the safeguard policies of multilateral development banks focused on the Inter-American Development Bank Group’s safeguard review processes, and accountability mechanisms and reprisals policies and procedures. In that context, OHCHR finalized a human rights due diligence benchmarking study. 10 OHCHR participated actively in the World Bank/International Monetary Fund annual meetings in October, served as a resource point in the inaugural training for World Bank staff under its Human Rights and Development Trust Fund, carried out two launch events for its publication entitled The Other Infrastructure Gap: Sustainability: Human Rights and Environmental Perspectives,11 and launched a global project on accessing remedy in development finance. 4. Economic, social and cultural rights 24. As part of its efforts to expand its work on economic, social and cultural rights, and to better support countries in leaving no one behind, OHCHR field presences initiated a number of small catalytic projects on economic and other types of inequalities and drivers of discrimination and exclusion. Moreover, OHCHR further strengthened its partnerships to promote and protect economic and social rights, including the rights to education, food, health, housing, water and sanitation, work and land. 25. On the right to food, OHCHR promoted human rights as a tool to fight hunger and inequalities during the October 2019 session of the Committee on World Food Security. On work and land rights, the High Commissioner advocated for a human rights-based approach 9 10 11 Available at www.sdg16hub.org/system/files/201907/Global%20Alliance%2C%20SDG%2016%2B%20Global%20Report.pdf. See www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Development/DFI/OHCHR_Benchmarking%20 Study_HRDD.pdf. Available at www.ohchr.org/documents/Publications/TheOtherInfrastructureGap_FullLength.pdf. 5