A/HRC/29/28 Governments to implement the Guiding Principles. This would be a contribution towards better managing the domestic business and human rights-related challenges and fostering dialogue and cooperation between stakeholder groups, including business and civil society. The Working Group’s guidance for State national action plans57 could provide a starting point, as could the emerging experiences of countries in different regions in taking steps towards such plans.58 Among specific experiences, the role played by UNDP and OHCHR in supporting national action plan processes in Malaysia, Mozambique and the Philippines, with the involvement of the Government, national human rights commissions and civil society organizations, could provide important lessons. 71. Second, as a significant number of governance failures stem from conflict over natural resources where business actors are involved, there may be huge potential benefits from better engagement with the business sector. A key entry point in that regard is the UNDP Extractive Industries for Sustainable Development initiative, through which UNDP supports capacity-building for national governance of extractive industries, including by facilitating and convening dialogues on extraction with affected populations, especially indigenous peoples, the private sector and Governments. Grounding such engagement in the Guiding Principles would provide clarity on the roles and responsibilities of dutybearers in line with international standards and clear benchmarks for expected action by States and businesses. Emerging tools and resources for companies59 inter alia60 provide specific practical guidance which, aligned with the Guiding Principles could help support such engagement.61 2. Promoting regional dialogue on the Guiding Principles 72. UNDP has also played an important role in the organization of the regional forums on business and human rights convened by the Working Group to engage stakeholders in various regions with a view to promoting implementation of the Guiding Principles in a manner that is better grounded in local realities: UNDP co-organized the Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Forum, held in Medellin, Colombia, from 28 to 30 August 2013, and supported the African Regional Forum, held in Addis Ababa from 16 to 18 September 2014.62 73. As highlighted in the report of the Secretary-General on the contribution of the United Nations system to the advancement of the business and human rights agenda, the Guiding Principles can also contribute to the activities of United Nations regional commissions focused on guidance, capacity-building and technical cooperation on 57 58 See footnote 8. Ibid. 59 See for example http://shiftproject.org/sites/default/files/Shift_HRDDinhighriskcircumstances_Mar2015.pdf. 60 See for example lessons from the “pillars in practice” project referenced in the Working Group’s report on the First African Regional Forum on Business and Human Rights (A/HRC/29/28/Add.2). 61 The paper “Promoting human rights, ensuring social inclusion and avoiding conflict in the extractive sector” prepared by IHRB for UNDP and the Government of Brazil for their joint dialogue on the Extractive Sector and Sustainable Development − Enhancing Public-Private Cooperation in the context of the Post-2015 Agenda”, 3–5 December 2014, highlights the value added by the Guiding Principles in the context of preventing conflict in this sector. 62 See www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Business/Forum/Pages/2013LACRegionalForumBusinessandHumanRight s.aspx and www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Business/Forum/Pages/AfricaRegionalForum.aspx. 19