A/HRC/29/28 for integrating human rights considerations into national investment policies and regulations, and into international investment agreements. The framework has been used in practice by Governments to guide their efforts in reforming investment rules and by civil society as a benchmark to evaluate the impact of investment policies on sustainable development goals. 25. Another example is the role of the African Minerals Development Centre of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in supporting implementation of the Africa Mining Vision and promoting policy developments aligned with human rights standards. It was highlighted in the discussions at the World Investment Forum that much more learning and work needed to be done to understand the connections between human rights and investment so that domestic policy and regulation, international investment instruments and dispute resolution mechanisms are both designed to, and trusted by the wider public to, foster the right outcomes for investors and for people.20 26. Another entry point is the work of UNCTAD on corporate social responsibility in global value chains.21 It seeks to analyse policies on corporate social responsibility with a view to identifying best practices for maximizing the development impact of corporate activities, in particular by transnational corporations, for which the Guiding Principles provide a useful reference. Ongoing work includes a forthcoming paper on corporate social responsibility in export processing zones, which highlights the State duty to protect in relation to business activities in such zones.22 27. One platform with potential for contributing to further convergence around the Guiding Principles is the inter-agency round table on corporate social responsibility jointly organized by UNCTAD, ILO and OECD.23 The round table is an event organized to provide an opportunity for international organizations to better collaborate and align their activities and give States a “one-stop shop” for discussing corporate social responsibility issues with relevant experts within international organizations. It could play an important role in promoting implementation of the Guiding Principles and policies and practices aligned with international human rights standards. 28. One cross-cutting aspect related to making progress on implementation of the Guiding Principles is the issue of corporate reporting on human rights commitments and due diligence in the context of corporate social responsibility. A recent framework developed to support corporate reporting on the Guiding Principles,24 for example, presents opportunities for making progress. There is a general interest in ensuring access to information upon which market decisions can be based – including in the contexts of investment, lending, mergers and acquisitions, and trade. It would be only logical for such information to disclose how risks of harm to people are assessed and addressed. This point was also highlighted by a group of investors welcoming the above-mentioned reporting framework, which emphasized that meaningful disclosure of human rights performance 8 20 See summary prepared by the London School of Economics Laboratory for Advanced Research on the Global Economy Investment and Human Rights Project, available from http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/. investment-and-human-rights/portfolio-items/background-and-summary-investment-human-rightsrelevance-and-integration-panel-discussions-2014-world-investment-forum/. 21 Available from http://unctad.org/en/Pages/DIAE/Corporate-Social-Responsibility.aspx. 22 For a summary of some the findings, see UNCTAD, World Investment Report 2013, chapt. IV, sect. D, 4.b. 23 www.csrroundtable.org/about/. 24 www.ungpreporting.org/.