A/HRC/22/17 46. OHCHR supported the work of the Committee on World Food Security to ensure consistency with human rights law in the development of Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security, adopted by the Committee in May 2012. OHCHR conducted briefings on the Guidelines for the United Nations human rights mechanisms. 47. In September 2012, OHCHR participated in the sixth World Urban Forum, as well as a High-Level Inter-Agency Meeting at the Forum, and underscored the importance of human rights in the efforts to improve urban development and security of tenure. Under the OHCHR-UN-Habitat joint programme, OHCHR developed eviction impact assessment methodologies. It also highlighted the gender aspects of the right to adequate housing in its publication entitled “Women and the Right to Adequate Housing”. 48. At the country level, the Office has undertaken advocacy and provided technical assistance on economic, social and cultural rights. Its strategy for responding to the crisis in the Sahel in Africa includes the monitoring of laws, policies and programmes on building resilience against food and nutrition insecurity and climate shocks, as well as on promoting the equitable distribution of services and goods. Support for field presences and missions included technical assistance on the right to housing in Cambodia, Central Asia and Serbia; capacity-building for national human rights institution in Somalia and Eastern Africa; assistance to include economic, social and cultural rights in the draft national plan of action on human rights in Honduras; follow-up to treaty body and universal periodic review recommendations in Panama and the Republic of Moldova; and training for judges in Mexico and the Dominican Republic. 49. I am pleased to highlight a positive impact of visits conducted by special procedures. The Parliament of Timor-Leste debated the preliminary recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights after her visit in 2011, whereby she called for increased public expenditure on social services and agriculture. 12 The final budget of 2012 allocated increases of almost 47 per cent to health and 35 per cent to education. Following up on the visit in 2011 of the Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation to the United States of America,13 members of the California State Assembly and Senate repeatedly referred to her report when debating the adoption of Bill 685 on 25 September 2012, which established the right of everyone in the State of California to safe, clean, affordable and accessible water, adequate for human needs. 50. OHCHR, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Special Rapporteur on the right to food contributed to the national protection of the right to adequate food through laws and strategies. OHCHR and FAO organized regional expert consultations convened by the Special Rapporteur in Nairobi, in April 2012, and in Bogotá, in June 2011. In our public statements, the Special Rapporteur and I encouraged progress, such as the explicit recognition of the right to food in national constitutions. 51. OHCHR issued two new human rights education resources: the documentary film “A Path to Dignity: the Power of Human Rights Education”, produced with two civil society organizations, and “Human Rights Education in Primary and Secondary School Systems: A Self-assessment Guide for Governments”, with UNESCO. 12 13 See A/HRC/20/25/Add.1. See A/HRC/18/33/Add.4. 11