A/HRC/21/21 42. At the national level, United Nations Resident Coordinators and country teams can play a strategically crucial role in promoting dialogue among Governments, business enterprises and civil society; promoting human rights due diligence in the context of economic activities; ensuring that risks to vulnerable communities, such as indigenous peoples, are considered; providing technical assistance; and supporting relevant research. 43. Resident Coordinators should take the lead at the national level, where possible in collaboration with OHCHR, in ensuring coordination among relevant agencies in integrating business and human rights into domestic development strategies and programmes. The Guiding Principles should also be integrated by Resident Coordinators into their advocacy efforts to promote United Nations norms. Country consultations under their leadership on the post-2015 development agenda provides an opportunity for integrating the Principles, including with regard to the private sector’s role in equitable growth and the promotion of policy coherence between human rights and other development objectives. 44. United Nations country teams, together with OHCHR, UNDP and the International Coordinating Committee of National Human Rights Institutions are well placed to work together to enhance the key role of national human rights institutions in advancing the business and human rights agenda. This includes supporting the capacity of national institutions to monitor policy coherence, the implementation of the Guiding Principles and the individuals and communities seeking effective remedies, undertaking research relating to due diligence, and supporting the development of dispute resolution capacities. 45. The mobilization of Global Compact local networks provides important opportunities for advancing the business and human rights agenda, including with small and medium-sized enterprises, through awareness-raising, comprehensive dissemination of the Guiding Principles and capacity-building to advance implementation. United Nations country teams and UNDP are well placed to enhance their engagement with the local networks focused on business and human rights, where possible in collaboration with OHCHR and national human rights institutions. (b) Development 46. The United Nations Development Group, through the human rights mainstreaming mechanism, should take the lead to advance integration of the Guiding Principles in the development efforts of the United Nations system aimed at delivering more coherent, effective and efficient support to countries seeking to attain internationally agreed development goals. 47. UNDP programmes focused on governance of the private sector, sustainable business and legal empowerment for the poor provide entry points for building the capacity of stakeholders to implement the Guiding Principles. With regard to industrial development, UNIDO programmes on corporate social responsibility and their specific focus on small and medium-sized enterprises provide another opportunity to integrate the Guiding Principles into capacity-building activities targeted at this constituency. 48. The World Bank Group can play an important role in supporting the dissemination and implementation of the Guiding Principles. Parts of the Guiding Principles already inform the updated version of the Sustainability Framework, including the performance standards applicable to clients of the International Finance Corporation. There may also be scope for aligning other relevant policies and aspects of the Group’s work with the Guiding Principles. The Nordic Trust Fund, mandated to help the World Bank to develop a knowledge-sharing and learning programme on human rights for staff, can provide further opportunities for awareness-raising on human rights standards relating to the business sector, and in particular the Guiding Principles. 10