A/HRC/43/33 about measures that they were taking to that effect at the national level and in their international development cooperation. Examples of such measures included national workshops and the exploration of a “systems change” approach to the Goals. 47. The centrality of the right to development to the 2030 Agenda was highlighted, as was the value of international and regional cooperation and the need to mobilize financial and other resources, including from the private sector. Some delegations spoke about the need for systematic collection and analysis of disaggregated data. United Nations reform was recognized as being important for more effective promotion and protection of human rights and realization of the Sustainable Development Goals. 48. Among the specific themes mentioned were the importance of accountability for the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals; empowerment and the rights of women and girls; the indivisibility and interdependence of rights; democracy, the rule of law and good governance; the essential role of civil society and the importance of protecting civic space; the need to address inequality within and between States; the need for economic reforms; the threat to human rights and the Goals from climate change and natural disasters; the importance of the peaceful settlement of conflict to realizing the Goals; and child rights and the contribution of children to efforts to achieve the 2030 Agenda. 49. Mr. Muchena expressed agreement with the delegation of South Africa on the importance of the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities. The response to climate change required recognition of inequality between and within countries. In that connection, it was important to underscore the greater responsibility of wealthy industrialized countries in particular. 50. In response to a question from the delegation of the Bahamas about rights-based monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals and leveraging the universal periodic review to monitor activities linked to climate change, the Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs stated that some countries had already reported in their voluntary national reviews on the human rights standards embedded in their constitution or legislation. 51. In that regard, Ms. Samar said that a particularly helpful mechanism was an independent national human rights institution with a sufficient budget and a clear mandate to monitor the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. She suggested that the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) or another in-country United Nations agency could act as an accountability mechanism to support Governments as they report on implementation of the Goals in their voluntary national reviews. 52. In response to a question from the delegation of Sweden about development cooperation and the human rights-based approach, Ms. Fukuda-Parr said that bilateral cooperation could play an enormous role in empowering local actors to monitor and participate in implementation. She highlighted the critical issue of data and the need to support national statistical offices in the area of data disaggregation, as there was no substitute for the work of the national statistical offices. 53. In response to a question from Child Rights Connect about enhancing child participation, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children recalled that child participation was a fundamental principle of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and that systemic arrangements needed to be made to consult children on implementation, monitoring, policy and programme design. C. Human rights and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals at the national level 54. The focus of the third session was to highlight specific experiences of linking the Sustainable Development Goals and human rights policies, practices, mechanisms and commitments at the country level. Ms. Ferro asked each of the panellists to share their national experiences. 55. Mr. Williams highlighted two overarching points. First, everything that the United Nations did at the country level in Albania was aimed at providing help to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and concerned human rights. Those two objectives were 8