A/HRC/45/21 I. Introduction 1. In its resolution 48/141, establishing the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the General Assembly decided that the High Commissioner should promote and protect the realization of the right to development and enhance support from relevant bodies of the United Nations for that purpose. The General Assembly also decided that the High Commissioner should recognize the importance of promoting balanced and sustainable development for all people and of ensuring the realization of the right to development, as established in the Declaration on the Right to Development. 2. The Human Rights Council, in its resolution 42/23, requested the High Commissioner to continue to submit to the Council an annual report on the activities of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), including on inter-agency coordination within the United Nations system, that have direct relevance to the realization of the right to development, and to provide an analysis of the implementation of the right to development, taking into account existing challenges and making recommendations on how to overcome them. 3. In its resolution 74/152, the General Assembly reaffirmed its request to the High Commissioner, in mainstreaming the right to development, to effectively undertake activities aimed at strengthening the global partnership for development among Member States, development agencies and the international development, financial and trade institutions and to reflect those activities in detail in her next report to the Human Rights Council. 4. The General Assembly also requested the Secretary-General to submit a report to the Assembly at its seventy-fifth session and an interim report to the Human Rights Council on the implementation of resolution 74/152, including efforts undertaken at the national, regional and international levels in the promotion and realization of the right to development. 5. The present report is submitted in accordance with the above requests. Section II contains an overview of the activities of OHCHR relating to the promotion and realization of the right to development, covering the period from June 2019 to May 2020. The General Assembly decided to convene the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries in Doha. 1 It will adopt a new 10-year programme of action for the least developed countries, which will be essential to realizing the right to development in these countries. As a contribution to the Conference, sections III and IV focus on the least developed countries and their challenges, including in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, and contain recommendations on how to overcome them. II. Activities of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 6. In implementing its mandate to promote and protect the realization of the right to development, OHCHR is guided by the Declaration on the Right to Development, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council and conclusions and recommendations of the Working Group on the Right to Development. 7. The OHCHR operational framework for promoting and protecting the realization of the right to development is contained in the proposed programme budgets for 2020 and 20212 and the United Nations Human Rights Management Plan for the period 2018–2021.3 1 2 3 2 Resolution 74/232, para. 46. A/74/6 (Sect. 24), subprogramme 1b; A/75/6 (Sect. 24), subprogramme 1b. www2.ohchr.org/english/ohchrreport2018_2021/OHCHRManagementPlan2018-2021.pdf.