A/HRC/39/18 I. Introduction 1. In its resolution 48/141, establishing the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the General Assembly decided that the High Commissioner should promote and protect the realization of the right to development and enhance support from relevant bodies of the United Nations system for this purpose. The General Assembly also decided that the High Commissioner should recognize the importance of promoting balanced and sustainable development for all people and of ensuring the realization of the right to development, as established in the Declaration on the Right to Development. 2. The Human Rights Council, in its resolution 36/9, requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to continue to submit to the Council an annual report on its activities, including on inter-agency coordination within the United Nations system, that have direct relevance to the realization of the right to development, and to provide an analysis of the implementation of the right to development, taking into account existing challenges and making recommendations on how to overcome them. 3. In its resolution 72/167, the General Assembly reaffirmed its request to the High Commissioner, in mainstreaming the right to development, to effectively undertake activities aimed at strengthening the global partnership for development among Member States, development agencies and the international development, financial and trade institutions and to reflect those activities in detail in his next report to the Human Rights Council. 4. In the same resolution, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to submit a report to the Assembly at its seventy-third session and an interim report to the Human Rights Council on the implementation of the present resolution, including efforts undertaken at the national, regional and international levels in the promotion and realization of the right to development. 5. The present report is submitted in accordance with the above requests. It contains an overview of the activities of the Office relating to the promotion and realization of the right to development, covering the period from June 2017 to May 2018, and an analysis of the implementation of the right to development, existing challenges and recommendations on how to overcome them. II. Activities of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 6. In implementing its mandate to promote and protect the realization of the right to development, the Office is guided by the Declaration on the Right to Development, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council and conclusions and recommendations of the Working Group on the Right to Development. 7. The OHCHR operational framework for promoting and protecting the realization of the right to development is contained in the strategic framework for the period 2018–2019 and OHCHR Management Plan for the period 2018–2021.1 1 2 See A/71/6 (Prog. 20), pp. 4–7; OHCHR, United Nations Human Rights Management Plan 2018– 2021 (HRC/NONE/2018/17). Available at www2.ohchr.org/english/ohchrreport2018_2021/OHCHRManagementPlan2018-2021.pdf.