A/HRC/34/25 38. Under human rights law, these commitments are framed as integral part of State obligations. For example, under article 2 (1) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, each State Party is required to take steps, individually and through international assistance and cooperation, especially economic and technical, to the maximum of its available resources, with a view to achieving progressively the full realization of the rights recognized in the Covenant. Similar provisions for international cooperation can be found in most other international treaties, which further strengthens the collective accountability of States in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. Under article 4 (1) of the Declaration on the Right to Development, States have the duty to take steps, individually and collectively, to formulate international development policies with a view to facilitating the full realization of the right to development. 39. Both the 2030 Agenda (and its Goal 17 in particular) and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda contribute to creating an enabling environment for the realization of the right to development and all other human rights, including economic, social and cultural rights. The Addis Ababa Action Agenda contains numerous human rights considerations, such as the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, reporting on environmental, social and governance impact, and the need for environmental and social safeguards in the context of activities by businesses and development banks. Members States agreed to promote financial inclusion, reduce inequalities, seek to eradicate extreme poverty, ensure gender equality and provide social protection and essential public services for all, with a focus on those furthest below the poverty line. For their part, civil society organizations have increasingly adopted a rights-based analysis to financing for development. 40. Another set of implementation challenges that could reveal an opportunity for applying a human rights-based approach relates to the need to ensure transparency, participation and accountability. As these are key human rights principles themselves, human rights frameworks offer useful guidance that should be taken into account in order to ensure not only that the implementation of the 2030 Agenda is in accordance with international law, but also that the outcomes and the impact of interventions are more sustainable and responsive to the aspiration of the people, particularly those who are left furthest behind. Applying these principles would ensure that all affected stakeholders are empowered to participate freely and meaningfully throughout processes to define national benchmarks and in strategies to localize the Sustainable Development Goals. Transparent and inclusive national implementation processes will lead to more relevant country strategies and actions, as those most affected can often help to identify the greatest challenges to be addressed and the opportunities to overcome them. VII. Contributions of international human rights mechanisms 41. Human rights mechanisms, including the Human Rights Council and its subsidiary bodies, and international human rights treaty monitoring bodies offer the opportunity of promoting the accountability of those responsible for implementing the 2030 Agenda, and in ensuring that they do so in full conformity with human rights law. More than half of the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals – many of them related to economic, social and cultural rights – are already being monitored, to varying degrees, by the human rights mechanisms of the United Nations. The recommendations and concluding observations of human rights mechanisms play an important role in identifying key human rights issues at the country level and in prioritizing the most excluded and marginalized individuals and groups that will be relevant to the implementation of the Goals. 42. The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has, for example, since its fifty-eighth session, made a recommendation focused on the Sustainable Development Goals as standard practice in all its concluding observations, reading: 10