A/HRC/34/28 efficient, responsible and responsive institutions allowing the innovative use of data to service and facilitate public participation in the design and implementation of public policies. 12. ECLAC also assists Governments in their efforts to strengthen public administration, the design and implementation of open government and citizen engagement strategies, in access to public information, data and innovation, taxation, budgets and public investments and public planning, monitoring, evaluation and management, and the identification and application of strategic tools for mainstreaming the Sustainable Development Goals in national and subnational development institutions, policies and plans across and between sectors. 13. ECLAC has worked to develop a regional observatory on planning for sustainable development to provide tools and information, including sharing of data and good practices, to empower the public and private sectors and civil society to achieve the SDGs. 3. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia 14. ESCWA worked to promote and protect human rights within the larger goal of strengthening good governance and public administration systems. Efforts included participation in international and regional forums addressing human rights and producing research studies. 15. The Commission has participated in human rights forums in collaboration with various United Nations entities, intergovernmental organizations and stakeholders to address human rights violations through transitional justice mechanisms; to draft an Arab human rights strategy; to provide input in the periodical review process of the Arab human rights charter committee; to address governance challenges to the promotion of human rights in the context of fragility and conflict, with weak State institutions; and to consider the risks and challenges posed by activities of private military and security companies, the oil and extractive industry, and refugee displacement. 16. Research conducted by ESCWA has addressed a number of topics, including the promotion of human rights, through the establishment of transitional justice mechanisms, in countries transitioning out of conflict; a study of early warning systems with a view to establishing a conflict prevention tool that takes into account human rights violations; and a study on security sector reforms in the region. B. 1. Funds and programmes United Nations Development Programme 17. UNDP promotes democratic governance in various ways, including by supporting constitutional reform and elections, strengthening parliaments and supporting reconciliation efforts and measures to foster empowerment and inclusion. UNDP highlighted the mutually reinforcing the relationship between good governance and human rights. 18. The ultimate goal of UNDP support in the area of good governance is to bring effective and equitable delivery of services to people and to reinforce the rule of law and citizen security through appropriate policy, legal and regulatory frameworks and the strengthening of local governance institutions. UNDP provides assistance in bridging the gap between humanitarian, peacebuilding and longer-term development efforts and in the interest of enabling environments for development, peaceful dispute settlements and progress towards democratic governance. 4