A/HRC/39/34 changes in the perception and attitudes towards gender relations among women and girls but also among men and boys. 49. There was a consensus on the need to further strengthen accountability for implementation of the 2030 Agenda. The crucial role of civil society organizations in such efforts both at the national and international levels was underscored. At the national level, the experts also highlighted the important role of national human rights institutions and national statistics bureaux in facilitating the application of a human rights-based approach to data in monitoring the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, including the active use of recommendations issued by international human rights institutions in such monitoring. 50. There was also a consensus that the United Nations human rights mechanisms, including the universal periodic review process, the special procedures and the human rights treaty bodies, had a great potential for enhancing accountability for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, and their analyses, guidance and regular country review processes could facilitate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in accordance with international human rights law. 51. The following recommendations emanated from the discussion at the expert meeting: (a) States should strive to advance gender equality and women’s rights in all areas of the 2030 Agenda, taking into account the indivisibility of its three dimensions — economic, social and environmental; (b) The United Nations human rights mechanisms should continue to analyse the gender perspective and women’s rights in areas of the 2030 Agenda where integration of a gender perspective remains weak, and issue concrete recommendations and guidance on how to advance gender equality and to respect, protect and fulfil women’s human rights in such areas. Such recommendations and guidance should elaborate on the human rights responsibilities of business enterprises and the extraterritorial obligations of States; (c) Stakeholders involved in monitoring the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, including States, international organizations, development partners and civil society organizations, should improve their monitoring methodologies in order to capture the diversity of women, girls and non-binary or non-gender conforming persons, address intersecting forms of discrimination they face and measure progress made on gender equality, by applying a human rights-based approach to data. Such efforts would require the free, active and meaningful participation of women, girls and non-binary or non-gender conforming persons belonging to marginalized groups throughout the monitoring processes; (d) Stakeholders involved in monitoring the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, including States, international organizations, development partners and civil society organizations, should develop and use gender-transformative indicators; (e) Collaboration between actors working on measurement and statistics and actors working on human rights should be facilitated at the national and international levels, including between national statistics bureaux and national human rights institutions; (f) National stakeholders, including national human rights institutions and national statistics bureaux, should be encouraged and supported in the active use of recommendations and guidance on the realization of gender equality and women’s rights issued by international human rights institutions, such as the United Nations human rights mechanisms, in the implementation and monitoring of the 2030 Agenda at the national level, including in voluntary national review processes and any other national monitoring and evaluation processes; (g) United Nations human rights mechanisms should strengthen interaction with the high-level political forum on sustainable development and with United Nations entities acting as lead agencies on global indicators for the Sustainable 13

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