A/HRC/4/WG.2/TF/2 page 13 III. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 53. Having completed a preliminary review of three partnerships and heard the views of the delegations and other observers at the session, the task force has reached the conclusions and recommendations that are set out in the paragraphs below. A. Conclusions 54. Consistent with its approach to move the right to development from general principles and political commitments to specific operational tools for development practice, the task force recognized the value-added of developing concrete criteria based on the right-to-development framework and applying them to global partnerships for development. The application of these criteria facilitates current and future partnerships to explicitly factor essential elements of the right to development into their respective operational frameworks. This effort to operationalize the right takes into account both the normative human rights considerations and the empirical evidence that demonstrates the advantages of applying the criteria. 55. If its mandate is continued, the task force would deepen its work on the criteria, through both a deeper analysis of the three partnerships examined above and evaluation of additional partnerships dealing with other domains of international cooperation, as identified under the Millennium Development Goal 8. Drawing on experience gained from refining and applying the criteria would be conducive to the elaboration of a comprehensive and coherent set of standards to assess the implementation of the right to development and to recommend improvements in the practice of global development partnerships. 56. Its initial effort to apply the criteria at its third meeting has demonstrated that even the current broadly worded criteria enabled the task force to assess both the extent to which essential elements of the right to development are already reflected in the global partnership frameworks and the value-added that the right to development framework brings to these partnerships. However, first it is necessary to clarify the identified criteria by relating them to an implementation checklist. Such an implementation checklist would contain sub-criteria and performance benchmarks, to be elaborated upon at a later stage and to be agreed upon in specific partnership contexts. 1. Pilot application of the criteria 57. The task force recalls that the right to development criteria, as agreed by consensus at the seventh session of the Working Group, are based on the Declaration on the Right to Development and, in the spirit of article 9 (1) of that Declaration,1 are indivisible. Therefore, in applying them to development partnerships, all the criteria are relevant, even though it is appropriate to take full account of the historical, political, and legal context of each partnership and of the countries that participate in them. 1 Article 9.1 reads “All the aspects of the right to development set forth in the present Declaration are indivisible and interdependent and each of them should be considered in the context of the whole.”