A/HRC/33/22 approaches to programming, which supports United Nations practitioners on such approaches.30 39. Through OHCHR technical work and engagement with stakeholders on the importance of human rights in monitoring and data management, this approach has gained increasing support from national and international stakeholders, including statistical organizations, national human rights institutions and civil society. This is reflected, for example, in the Mérida Declaration on the role of national human rights institutions in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted in October 2015 by the Twelfth International Conference of the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, and in outcomes of key events of the statistical community to which OHCHR provided contributions, including the meeting of the Conference of European Statisticians in Geneva; the meeting of the World Statistics Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the session of the United Nations Statistical Commission held in New York; and the meetings of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators in New York and Bangkok. 40. OHCHR has engaged in related milestones in the process of defining the 2030 Agenda, including the 2014 report of the Secretary-General’s Independent Expert Advisory Group on a Data Revolution for Sustainable Development, which called for a data revolution grounded in human rights to monitor implementation of the 2030 Agenda. In addition, OHCHR has received and responded to numerous requests from statistical offices on capacity-building in human rights-based approaches to data for monitoring progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goal targets. B. Contributions to Sustainable Development Goals, targets and indicators Sustainable Development Goals and targets 41. OHCHR provided substantive input on the development of Sustainable Development Goals and targets from early on in the process of defining the 2030 Agenda. In this respect, OHCHR has engaged with United Nations agencies, civil society and Governments to help define substantive priorities to address civil and political rights, including the parameters of Goal 16 and target 16.9, on birth registration and legal identity. OHCHR support for the elaboration of Goal 16 targets focused on strengthening their alignment with civil and political rights encompassing personal security, fundamental freedoms and accountability. This involved technical inputs on the inclusion of the right to legal identity through birth registration, as reflected in the 2013 joint publication by OHCHR and the Center for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights entitled Who Will be Accountable?. In that report, the need for a target addressing birth registration was clearly identified, on the basis that a birth certificate was the official record of an individual’s existence and his or her recognition as a person before the law.31 42. In 2013, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), OHCHR conducted global and regional thematic consultations on governance, with the input of all stakeholders, to further define how this theme could be effectively integrated into the Sustainable Development Goal framework.32 Among others, OHCHR served as a member of the advisory group for the global consultations on addressing inequalities that 30 31 32 14 http://hrbaportal.org/resources/a-human-rights-based-approach-to-data-leaving-no-one-behind-in-the2030-development-agenda. OHCHR and Center for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Who Will be Accountable? (2013), pp. 85-90. Available from www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/WhoWillBeAccountable.pdf. www.worldwewant2030.org/governance.