A/HRC/36/49 livelihoods and productive assets, as well as cultural and environmental assets, while promoting and protecting all human rights, including the right to development. 16. People across the world are increasingly exposed to natural disasters, the effects of which destroy development efforts and reduce entire regions to poverty. Poverty and vulnerability to disasters are closely linked: low-income countries, in particular the poor and disadvantaged groups within them, are typically more vulnerable to and disproportionately affected by disasters. The implementation of the right to development is, therefore, closely interlinked with disaster risk reduction. Natural hazards cannot be fully avoided; however, disasters to a large extent can be averted by reducing the exposure of communities to the hazard, increasing their capacities to withstand it and/or reducing their vulnerability. F. Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development 17. In the opening paragraph of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the Heads of State and Government and High Representatives gathered in Addis Ababa for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development referred to the right to development, specifically stating that their goal was to end poverty and hunger and to achieve sustainable development through promoting inclusive economic growth, protecting the environment and promoting social inclusion, and that they committed to respecting all human rights, including the right to development. The Addis Ababa Action Agenda and the 2030 Agenda are closely intertwined; the former is referred to in the latter as an integral part of the 2030 Agenda,7 and it has been affirmed that the full implementation of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda is critical for the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals and targets.8 The Addis Ababa Action Agenda is explicitly linked to the means of implementation targets established under Goal 17 and under each specific Sustainable Development Goal, in that it is recognized as supporting, complementing and helping to contextualize those targets. 9 The targets under Goal 17 operationalize the Addis Ababa Action Agenda commitments in the areas of finance, technology, capacity-building, trade and systemic issues. 18. The 2030 Agenda connects the follow-up of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda commitments to the Sustainable Development Goal accountability framework, i.e. the highlevel political forum under the auspices of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council. 10 The Addis Ababa Action Agenda emphasizes accountability and transparency, providing for the establishment of the annual forum on financing for development follow-up under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council,11 which is mandated to monitor the 2030 Agenda means of implementation targets. The forum is an intergovernmental mechanism open to participation from other stakeholders, 12 including, in particular, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, which will participate in the special high-level meeting of the forum. 19. In the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, human rights and fundamental freedoms, along with good governance, the rule of law and access to justice, are referred to as integral to the cross-cutting commitment to promote peaceful and inclusive societies 13 — language similar to that used in Sustainable Development Goal 16. The Addis Ababa Action Agenda contains numerous references relating to human rights, including: 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Ibid., para. 62. Ibid., para. 40. Ibid., para. 62. Ibid., para. 47. General Assembly resolution 69/313, para. 132. Ibid., para. 132. Ibid., para. 18. 5