A/HRC/30/22 A. Support to the Working Group on the Right to Development 8. OHCHR provided support to the Working Group on the Right to Development during its fifteenth annual session, held from 12 to 16 May 2014. OHCHR also provided support to the informal intersessional meetings of the Working Group, held on 16 February and 24 April 2015, in preparation for its sixteenth annual session. Furthermore, OHCHR supported the Chair-Rapporteur in holding informal consultations and presenting the report of the Working Group to the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly. In October 2014, OHCHR issued a press release on the report.3 9. During its thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth sessions, the Working Group reviewed and made numerous proposals to amend the draft right to development criteria and corresponding operational sub-criteria. These were initially proposed by the high-level task force on the implementation of the right to development. The Working Group is mandated to continue, at its sixteenth session, to accomplish its tasks including, in particular, to consider, revise and refine the draft right to development criteria and corresponding operational sub-criteria. 10. Over the past five years, the Working Group has received several contributions on the proposed draft right to development criteria and corresponding operational sub-criteria. In total, it has received 4 submissions from groups of States (2 from the Non-Aligned Movement and 2 from the European Union), 34 from Member States, 12 from organizations of the United Nations system, 4 from national human rights institutions (2 from the National Human Rights Commission of India, 1 from the Independent Human Rights Commission of Afghanistan and 1 from the Advisory Council on Human Rights of Morocco), 1 from a United Nations treaty body (the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), 4 joint submissions from non-governmental organizations (3 from a working group of Catholic-inspired non-governmental organizations on the right to development and international solidarity and 1 from an indigenous peoples’ organization) and 12 individual submissions from civil society organizations and academics. All the submissions have been posted in their original versions on the OHCHR web page dedicated to the Working Group. 11. In addition, the Working Group has engaged in an effort to revitalize its work. With the support of OHCHR, and at the request of the Working Group, the former ChairRapporteur submitted to the sixteenth session of the Working Group a draft framework to improve its effectiveness and efficiency with a view to accomplishing its mandate (A/HRC/WG.2/16/2). 12. In the first part of her report, the Chair-Rapporteur briefly reviewed the past work of the Working Group, drawing on its agreed conclusions and recommendations, assessing the extent to which the Working Group had addressed all aspects of its mandate and the factors and conditions that had influenced its effectiveness and efficiency. 13. The Chair-Rapporteur identified the three processes that had characterized the work of the Working Group: first, interaction with the Independent Expert on the right to development; second, interaction with the high-level task force on the implementation of the right to development; and third, the intergovernmental process that had been taking place since 2011, focusing on the revision and refinement of the criteria and corresponding operational sub-criteria for the implementation of the right to development. 14. In the second part of her report, the Chair-Rapporteur drew on lessons learned and formulated a draft framework. She observed an imbalance in the manner in which the tasks 3 See www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=15204&LangID=E. 3