A/HRC/27/41 and Development (Secretaría Nacional de Planificación y Desarrollo) (SENPLADES) requested OHCHR support for the integration of human rights into national development planning processes and tools. 82. The Constitution of Ecuador states that planning and public policies formulated through participatory approaches are key processes for realizing human rights and promoting social equality cohesion and “good living” (buen vivir). The task of OHCHR was also facilitated by the Government’s clear political will and by the work of a solid national planning entity with strong institutional and technical capacity. 83. The effective collaboration between OHCHR and SENPLADES between 2011 and 2013 produced a number of key results, including the Guidelines for the elaboration of sectoral public policy, the Guidelines for the integration of a human rights-based approach in the national development plan and the Atlas of socioeconomic inequalities. 84. The approach used to develop the Guidelines for the elaboration of sectoral public policy followed precise methodological steps, such as identifying specific duty bearers visà-vis human rights obligations; unpacking the relevant rights and analysing their dimensions, e.g. accessibility, affordability, availability, quality; and integrating the principles of participation, non-discrimination, transparency and accountability into the policy. 85. Those Guidelines, adopted in 2011 through a ministerial decree, which made their use compulsory, have succeeded in placing the human being at the centre of development planning. The gap between human rights standards and the actual living conditions of the people is viewed as a development challenge. 86. OHCHR and SENPLADES provided specialized training for 120 planning officials of the executive branch of government, which strengthened the capacity of key departments to work together in formulating public policies from a human rights perspective. 87. In 2011, OHCHR and SENPLADES assessed the level of integration of the human rights-based approach into a national development plan, namely the National Plan for Good Living, 2009–2013. Their work resulted in the preparation of Guidelines for the integration of a human rights-based approach in the national development plan, which provide instructions on how to integrate a human rights-based approach into the elaboration, implementation and evaluation of development strategies for targeting the next National Development Plan, for the period 2014–2017. 88. SENPLADES, together with OHCHR and 11 other United Nations entities, the Centro de Planificación y Estudio Social and the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, worked together to develop the Atlas of socioeconomic inequalities. The Atlas, which was launched in 2013, constitutes an innovative database that maps persistent gaps in the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights in Ecuador. It contains disaggregated information, including by ethnicity, sex, gender, age and region, and creates new social indicators to measure poverty from a multidimensional perspective. 89. The Atlas served as a baseline for the National Strategy for Poverty Eradication and informed the actualization of the National Development Plan for the period 2014–2017. It is expected to guide the formulation of targeted public policies in order to address inequalities. 90. The OHCHR framework on indicators is being used to increase the capacity of the National Development Secretariat and the managers of the National Information System to monitor and evaluate public policies from a human rights perspective. 16