A/HRC/26/20 agenda.4 However, the scale of the challenge of implementing the Guiding Principles globally is such that it requires coordinated action by all actors, including the United Nations system as a whole. The Working Group’s mandate encourages coordination and cooperation with entities in the United Nations systems and other international, regional and domestic actors in efforts to build capacity and disseminate the Guiding Principles. III. Convergence of international standards and processes 13. The unanimous endorsement of the Guiding Principles by the Council and the broad support for them from all stakeholder groups, including States, regional and international organizations, business enterprises and business organizations, and many civil society organizations globally, have established them as a common platform for accountability and progress. Global convergence of international standards and processes around the Guiding Principles and their core concepts helps to clarify, simplify and reinforce implementation by both States and business enterprises. 14. It is encouraging to note that, three years after their endorsement by the Council, there has been significant convergence around the Guiding Principles at the international and regional level (see A/HRC/21/21 and Corr.1).5 Efforts to implement the Guiding Principles are also being made by international business organizations and individual businesses, national human rights institutions, trade unions, civil society and other actors, examples of which have been discussed at the two first annual Forums on Business and Human Rights.6 IV. Embedding the business and human rights agenda in the United Nations system 15. Within the United Nations, significant activities to embed the Guiding Principles have taken place. As has previously been reported (A/HRC/21/21 and Corr.1, paras. 13 and 14), the corporate responsibility to respect human rights as set out in the Guiding Principles has been incorporated into the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security of the Committee on World Food Security, and the revised Sustainability Framework of the International Finance Corporation. 16. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), as the focal point within the United Nations system for advancing the business and human rights agenda, has a specific role to support the implementation and dissemination of the Guiding Principles, as well as to provide guidance and advice on the interpretation of the Guiding Principles to all stakeholders, in collaboration with the Working Group. OHCHR 4 5 6 For information on the Working Group’s activities, see www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Business/Pages/WGEventsStatements.aspx and www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Business/Pages/ActivitiesAndEngagement.aspx. For activities of the European Union level, see http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sustainablebusiness/corporate-social-responsibility/index_en.htm. For activities of the Council of Europe, see www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/hrpolicy/other_committees/hr_and_business/default_EN.asp. For work of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, see http://mneguidelines.oecd.org/. For an example of the Organization of American States, see AG/RES. 2753 (XLII-O/12). For information on the forums, see www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Business/Forum/Pages/ForumonBusinessandHumanRights.aspx. 5