A/HRC/34/28 35. UNODC adopted a human rights-based approach to its work, including in its anticorruption activities. It supports government experts in conducting peer-to-peer country reviews as part of the Mechanism for the Review of Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption. UNODC provides States parties with technical assistance to implement the Convention, including policy formulation and legislation drafting support, capacity assessments of anti-corruption bodies, capacity-building and training to conduct anti-corruption investigations and self-assessment of anti-corruption preventive measures, focusing on judicial integrity, whistle-blower protection, anti-corruption strategies and public procurement. UNODC has issued numerous publications in these areas. In the area of asset recovery, it established, jointly with the World Bank, the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative, which provides States parties with support during stolen asset recovery efforts, engages in capacity-building and promotes international cooperation. 36. Good governance is essential to the prevention of terrorism. To that end, UNODC works with States to strengthen the rule of law and their compliance with the human rights standards of legal and criminal justice measures taken against terrorism. Besides technical assistance, UNODC has developed an online counter-terrorism learning platform and two training tools, The Criminal Justice Response to Support Victims of Acts of Terrorism and Good Practices in Supporting Victims of Terrorism within the Criminal Justice Framework. 37. UNODC has provided assistance to address human trafficking and migrant smuggling in the interest of building the capacity of and supporting national justice and related institutions. One practical example is the UNODC pre-assistance assessment procedure that customizes technical assistance, by evaluating adherence to a broad range of existing international human rights obligations, considered directly relevant to the governance of responses to human trafficking and migrant smuggling. Further support is provided by UNODC through its production of standard-setting technical materials promoting good governance and rights-based responses by actors working to prevent and combat human trafficking and migrant smuggling. C. 1. Specialized agencies Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 38. FAO defines governance as the processes through which public and private actors articulate their interests, frame and prioritize issues, and make, implement, monitor and enforce decisions. FAO has included governance as a cross-cutting theme in its strategic framework in the interest of increasing operational effectiveness and of progress towards eradicating hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition, eliminating poverty and achieving the sustainable use and management of natural resources. 39. In the experience of FAO, the success of efforts to achieve the above-mentioned goals depends on whether the efforts are informed and accepted by all the public and private actors concerned. 40. FAO relies on institutional, political economy and stakeholder analyses to identify governance challenges relating to food and agriculture, and to improve the inclusiveness of policies and programmes. Its approach to governance does not imply a set of criteria to be applied universally as a precondition of success. It focuses on understanding the “politics” around a given technical issue or problem related to food and agriculture in order to be able to support Member States in designing solutions that will be considered legitimate in the eyes of the persons concerned, and have a chance of being effectively implemented and being sustainable. Looking at governance issues is generally linked to an initial assessment of a State and an analysis of the political economy context in which a specific intervention 7