A/HRC/17/25 human rights,” including the right to health.69 An understanding of the intrinsic value of human rights and the promotion of human dignity as a necessary end of development must not be sacrificed in order to facilitate data-intensive evaluation. 58. Nevertheless, these concerns and challenges do not detract from the potential for human rights, and specifically the right to health, to provide a set of norms for development to reorient itself further in a more “human-centric” manner, drawing on legal and institutional frameworks that are crucial to human rights. They have potential not just to “add value”, but to achieve the core goals of development itself, as it has been most recently conceived in terms of the right to development and of human development as reflected in the MDGs. In this way development and human rights function symbiotically, as achieving gains in development through methods which utilize human rights will also achieve realization of rights. IV. Conclusions and recommendations 59. The need to incorporate human rights into development is important for the long-term sustainability and legitimacy of development as an enterprise. Many models of development failed to address basic human needs, and further, neglected the rights of people whilst pursuing development outcomes supposedly designed to benefit them. Human rights-based approaches to development are particularly useful in this regard, and their use should be promoted. The right to health can be a particularly powerful reference in that regard because of its close links to a full range of other rights and the crucial role that health plays in development, both human and economic. 60. The Special Rapporteur recommends that: (a) States take steps to ensure that the right to health framework is integrated into health-related development programming, particularly in respect of the health-related MDGs and social determinants of health; (b) States take measures to ensure that information on the right to health framework, including the need for transparency, accountability and participation of individuals and communities in decision-making that has a bearing on their health, is disseminated and its use promoted in development-related areas; (c) The United Nations continues its efforts to provide more guidance in respect of human rights-based approaches and to provide best-practice examples of operationalization of human rights-based approaches; (d) The United Nations continue to design and implement human rightsbased approaches to development issues, and build its own capacity and that of States and other actors to incorporate human rights, and the right to health framework, into their development operations; (e) Organizations adopting a human rights-based approach in respect of development make use of independent, well-designed qualitative evaluation to assess the outcomes of their interventions, and publicize these evaluations to encourage dialogue and cooperation amongst agencies working at the intersection of development and rights; 69 18 United Nations, “Millennium Development Goals: Background”. Available from http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/bkgd.shtml.