A/HRC/27/27 34. One focus area of the mechanism is policy coherence across the United Nations system and strengthening the positioning of human rights within global development agendas as a whole. During the period under review, OHCHR and the mechanism worked to support Member States in the integration of human rights and right to development provisions in the quadrennial comprehensive policy review. The review requested the United Nations to link normative (including human rights) and operational work and to provide capacity-development towards a more participatory and accountable development process. The strategic priorities for 2014-2017 of the United Nations Development Group were also subsequently revised, and now aim to deliver more coherent, effective and efficient support to countries in the achievement of internationally agreed development goals and human rights treaty obligations. 35. OHCHR continues to lead the United Nations system with regard to the realization of the right to development. This includes forging potential concrete partnerships on specific thematic areas, such as trade, finance and investment. OHCHR will take the lead within the mainstreaming mechanism on how human rights, including the right to development, can be further integrated into the strategic positioning of human rights within the context of the United Nations Development Group and within development activities. 36. In 2013, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) adopted a document entitled “UN-Habitat commitment to the human rights-based approach to development”, and its Executive Director strongly supported a human rights-based approach in all aspects of its work. OHCHR contributed to this development through the joint UN-Habitat/OHCHR United Nations housing programme and different human rights mainstreaming activities, including side events during UN-Habitat governing body meetings, human rights training for UN-Habitat senior management and meetings between the High Commissioner and the Executive Director of UN-Habitat. The UN-Habitat human rights strategy is planned to be put in place through, inter alia, guidance notes and training for staff members, explaining the linkages between their sectorial work and human rights, incorporating adequate procedures and safeguard in projects, and the establishment of an advisory group on human rights within the organization. OHCHR will continue to provide assistance during this process. E. Other activities 37. In September 2013, OHCHR participated in a side event held during the twentyfourth session of the Human Rights Council on the right to development and the post-2015 development agenda, organized by the members of the Working Group on the Right to Development and International Solidarity of the Geneva Forum of Catholic-Inspired NGOs,12 speaking on the theme “Realizing the transformative vision of the Declaration on the Right to Development”. OHCHR participated in an event devoted to “International youth leadership on the right to development”, sponsored by the National Association of Women’s Organizations and Ariel Foundation International, with the co-sponsorship of World YWCA, the Inter-African Committee on Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Girls, GEO International and the Global Education Institute for Shipboard Education. OHCHR elaborated on the right to development, including through identifying and relating 12 Associazione Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII, Association Points-Coeur, Caritas Internationalis (International Confederation of Catholic Charities), Dominicans for Justice and Peace (Order of Preachers), International Institute of Mary Our Help of the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco, International Volunteerism Organization for Women, Education, and Development, International Organization for the Right to Education and Freedom of Education, New Humanity. 11