A/HRC/43/33 the Human Rights Council for holding the intersessional meetings as a way to promote knowledge and exchange with the forum. In July 2019, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights had presented the Council’s contribution to the forum, an exchange of knowledge that was vital and must be continued. 39. Member States should make better use of the reporting processes in which they were involved. For example, the universal periodic review could help with the preparation of the voluntary national reviews and vice versa. Although the objectives and modalities of the two reviews were different, they had many complementarities. The Secretary-General, in his guidelines for voluntary national reviews, explicitly encouraged States to coordinate reporting processes, including for human rights. 8 40. The Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children noted the importance of moving from a reactive to a proactive approach in breaking down silos and identifying incentives for cross-sectoral collaboration, not only in terms of child protection but also in other areas. A human rights-based approach meant having the population at the centre of policy, which required a reliable picture of the national and grass-roots levels. In order not to leave anyone behind, disaggregated data was required to determine who was at risk and therefore who needed to be reached. It was useful to have a repository of all of the data collected by many actors, to avoid repetition and ensure a more comprehensive information system. 41. She emphasized the importance of indicators and accountability mechanisms and noted the need for a more comprehensive assessment of exactly what was to be measured. 42. Addressing systemic challenges in Afghanistan, Ms. Samar spoke about the work of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission to promote the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. She highlighted the importance of justice and accountability, both in her country and in every other country. Human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals should be a reality for people on the ground and not just paper exercises in the universal periodic review and voluntary national review mechanisms, as people had the right to live with dignity. 43. Ms. Fukuda-Parr reiterated that the human rights principles of equality and participation were at the core of the transformative agenda. Equality must be embedded in macroeconomic policy and in policies for productive employment creation. Embedding human rights principles into an economic and social development model was essential to a transformative agenda. 44. Mr. Muchena called for civil society, Governments and institutions to come together to reflect the growing convergence of economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals. As an example of that convergence, he referred to a case in Eswatini in which a judge had relied on the Goals in his refusal to grant an eviction order. Unfortunately, that case was not well known outside Eswatini. 45. In the interventions from the floor,9 several delegations welcomed the fact that the second intersessional meeting was being held and reaffirmed the indivisible and mutually reinforcing relationship between human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals. The principle of leaving no one behind was mentioned frequently as a guiding principle to realize the 2030 Agenda. Encouragement and commitment were expressed with respect to accelerating implementation of the 2030 Agenda. 46. Numerous States affirmed the value of integrating the relationship between human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals into policies, plans and activities, and spoke 8 9 Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat, Handbook for the Preparation of Voluntary National Reviews: The 2019 Edition (New York, 2018), annex II. Azerbaijan on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, European Union, Colombia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Islamic Republic of Iran, Philippines, Angola on behalf of the Group of African States, Pakistan, Australia, India, Montenegro, China, South Africa, Bahamas, Sweden, Egypt, Netherlands, Norway, Council of Europe, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, Child Rights Connect and Associazione Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII made statements. Some of the statements are available at www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/Pages/ SecondIntersessionalMeeting2030Agenda.aspx. 7