A/HRC/4/47 page 12 A. Conclusions 48. The Working Group takes note with appreciation of the report of the high-level task force on the implementation of the right to development, as well as the general approach that the high-level task force has outlined in applying the criteria based on the right-todevelopment framework to selected development partnerships, consistent with the objective to move the right to development from conceptual debates and general principles to its operationalization. 49. The Working Group recognizes the value-added of developing concrete implementation criteria based on the Declaration on the Right to Development and the work undertaken by the follow-up mechanism established by the Commission on Human Rights resolution 1998/72, including the current Open-ended Working Group, and applying them to the global partnership for development, as defined in Millennium Development Goal 8. The application of these criteria facilitates the incorporation by current and future partnerships of essential elements of the right to development into their respective operational frameworks, thereby furthering the implementation of the right to development and, at the same time, providing the empirical basis for progressively developing and refining these criteria. 50. The Working Group agrees that there is a need to take this work forward through both a deeper dialogue with the three partnerships examined by the high-level task force at its third session and the evaluation of additional partnerships dealing with other aspects of international cooperation, including trade, aid, debt, technology transfers, migration, and other issues identified under Goal 8, in a step-by-step and an analytically rigorous manner. 51. The Working Group recognizes that the right-to-development criteria would benefit from further review of their structure, coverage of aspects of international cooperation identified under the MDG 8 and of the methodology for their application. The current objective of such elaboration should be to enhance the criteria as a practical tool for evaluating global development partnerships from the perspective of the right to development, including by actors in the relevant partnerships themselves. In this regard, the Working Group encourages the task force to provide a consistent mapping of the criteria and relevant checklists, viewing the latter as operational sub-criteria, for the consideration of the Working Group. 52. The Working Group agrees that the ongoing work of the task force constitutes a process of progressively identifying and refining right-to-development standards. The experience gained from further work of the task force in applying, refining and developing the criteria would be conducive to the elaboration and implementation of a comprehensive and coherent set of standards. These standards could take various forms, including guidelines on the implementation of the right to development, and evolve into a basis for consideration of an international legal standard of a binding nature, through a collaborative process of engagement.