A/HRC/40/34 65. Mr. Magazzeni highlighted four aspects of the discussion: (a) the importance of coordination at the national and international levels on Sustainable Development Goals and human rights; (b) better integration and alignment of Sustainable Development Goals and human rights efforts starting with the universal periodic review as an accepted part of the recommendations from the human rights mechanisms, but extending to the treaty bodies and other mechanisms; (c) greater coherence in the reporting in the Human Rights Council and in the high-level political forum on sustainable development and the Economic and Social Council on issues relating to Sustainable Development Goals and human rights; and (d) leveraging ODA to better support ongoing developments at the country level. D. Global partnerships to support the synergies between human rights and Sustainable Development Goal implementation 66. Ms. Isler opened the fourth session by asking the panellists to address what it took for different stakeholders to have meaningful partnerships that contributed to the synergies between human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals and what it took to create incentives for stakeholders to join forces to accelerate those synergies. 67. Mr. Ladd started by focusing on the elements of effective partnership. A strong partnership was something where people would come together because they had a common objective or at least mutually compatible objectives. This meant they could “co-create” and then “co-govern” a relationship that produced a positive outcome in that direction. Partnership required making a visible and identifiable contribution, which could be money, political will or effort, and taking something out of the partnership that contributed to the common goal. It was important to measure whether that was happening, and there was a need for concrete indicators or at least assessments about whether the partnership was working. 68. Mr. Ladd spoke of the latest report of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, entitled Policy Innovations for Transformative Change, as the initial contribution of the Institute to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. The conclusion of the report was that innovations that had driven transformative change towards development were those that were grounded in universal and rights-based approaches, that embedded economic policies and activities in social and environmental norms and that fostered truly participatory decision-making processes. 69. Mr. Ladd concluded by emphasizing the importance from a research perspective of having disaggregated data on who was being left behind. This determined how much guidance could be provided to countries, groups, society and governments to put in place policies that could address the situation of those being left behind. There should be more investment, more effort and more focus on obtaining strong disaggregated data sets that allowed for research, advocacy and policy development that would prevent people from being left behind. 70. In her presentation, 14 Ms. Cerri introduced the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as a membership organization that brought together about 200 multinational companies to tackle sustainability challenges that they were unable to tackle individually. This global coalition of leading businesses worked to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world where sustainable business was more successful. Business had a role to play, with opportunities for it to capture and with a responsibility to generate solutions to the societal and environmental challenges laid out in the Sustainable Development Goals. The Sustainable Development Goals could not be realized without meaningful business participation, which was an engine of economic growth and employment, a driver of technology and innovation, and a source of finance. The Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework were a key framework for companies to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goal agenda. 71. Ms. Cerri spoke of four drivers that were motivating business responses to human rights and noted that what they had in common was that they were risk-based approaches. 14 See www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/SDGS/2030/Ms.KitrhonaCerri.pdf. 11