A/HRC/30/22 entrusted to the Working Group by the Commission on Human Rights in its resolution 1998/72 had been implemented, with some aspects trailing behind others. She highlighted three main factors that needed to be addressed to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the Working Group: political will and commitment; an effective agenda; and the availability of means that are commensurate with the tasks entrusted to the Working Group, including mechanisms, modalities, time, and human and material resources. She made several recommendations, primarily procedural, to address those factors with a view to accomplishing all aspects of the Working Group’s mandate. B. Events and activities 15. OHCHR organized jointly with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Geneva Office a workshop on 17 and 18 September 2014 for 24 experts, practitioners and academics in the fields of human rights impact assessments, trade and investment. The workshop focused on the issues involved in human rights impact assessments in trade and investment regimes, and the role that various stakeholders, including non-governmental organizations and OHCHR, can play in improving the effectiveness of future assessments in trade and investment. There is increasing recognition of the potential benefits that human rights impact assessments of trade and investment regimes can bring. In principle, these assessments can be effective in identifying, quantifying and assessing the ways trade and investment affect the full spectrum of human rights. Their practice, however, is beset by challenges relating to the form they take, how and when they are conducted, the person or body undertaking the assessment, and the use that is made of the results. The workshop found that trade and investment processes, while not fully transparent, are subject to more scrutiny than ever before. In most cases, a small window is open for the use of human rights impact assessments. In addition, the political landscape is changing, with more sensitivity towards human rights and development issues, and more discussion on the human rights implications of investor-State dispute settlement. If human rights impact assessments are to be effective in addressing the human rights impacts of trade and investment agreements, further guidance, capacity-building and support for their practice is essential. Through developing the practice of such assessments, respective roles will be balanced, creating a more democratic and transparent process for the design, negotiation and implementation of trade and investment agreements. Trade and investment should be about making the right development impact on the ground and human rights impact assessments are an important, if still modest, pathway to making that happen.4 16. In the wake of the workshop, OHCHR is now collaborating with the Economic Commission for Africa and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung on a potential human rights impact assessment of the Continental Free Trade Area agreement in Africa. OHCHR prepared an issues paper for that purpose, which was considered at a multi-stakeholder expert workshop held on 16 and 17 April 2015 in Addis Ababa. If a human rights impact assessment were undertaken, negotiating countries would be provided with an evidence base and policy recommendations from which they could develop an effective and coherent approach to the negotiations, with a view to realizing outcomes that are aligned with human rights as well as national development commitments and priorities. 17. With regard to investment and the right to development, OHCHR, in collaboration with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), organized a panel discussion on human rights and investment policymaking at the World Investment 4 4 The report of the workshop is available at www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Globalization/Report_HRIA_Workshop.pdf.