A/HRC/9/17 page 12 applications of the criteria. Phases II and III should also allow the task force to examine additional thematic and regional areas under Millennium Development Goal 8, including technology transfer, debt relief, international cooperation and other aspects. 39. The Working Group finds that the ongoing application of the criteria through a dialogue with the institutions responsible for the identified partnerships contributes to the improvement of the criteria and to promoting the implementation of the right to development. 40. The Working Group regards the present reordering of the criteria, in annex II to the task force report, as an intermediate stage and anticipates a significant refinement in phase III, including providing operational sub-criteria. B. Recommendations 41. The Working Group recommends that the task force give priority to improving the criteria in the light of the lessons learned from their application and taking into account the Declaration on the Right to Development and other relevant international instruments as well as the views expressed by States at the current session, with a view to submitting, at the end of phase III, a revised list of criteria that serve the purposes set out in all relevant provisions of Council resolution 4/4. 42. In order to achieve the desired level of quality of the criteria, the Working Group requests the task force to draw on the necessary expertise to (a) make the criteria analytically and methodologically rigorous; (b) provide empirically-oriented tools to those involved in implementing development partnerships; and (c) ensure that they cover Millennium Development Goal 8, including target 8.A and other aspects not covered to date by the task force. 43. The Working Group recommends the following workplan for the task force for the period 2008-2010: In phase II (2008) The task force will: (a) Continue dialogue with the African Peer Review Mechanism, the ECA/OECD-DAC Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness, the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the Cotonou Agreement between African, Caribbean and Pacific countries and the European Union, including through technical missions, if necessary, subject to prior consultation; (b) Give priority to the issue of access to essential medicines in developing countries (target 8.E). For this purpose, the Working Group recommends that the task force conduct a desk review of the work of the Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property, and apply the criteria to the Global Fund on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases. Dialogue with these partnerships would focus on health systems, technology transfer and other dimensions of access to affordable essential drugs relevant to the right to development;