A/HRC/19/70 56. Particular attention should be paid to the crucial role of free, active and meaningful participation in the development process including by women, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples, minorities, children and youth, utilizing existing and available normative instruments. The principle of free, prior and informed consent of affected communities should be respected at all stages of development decision-making. New and innovative tools and approaches to participation were encouraged, such as public budget monitoring, participatory video and other means by which individuals reclaim control over both the form and content of participation, as well as experimental and improvisational cultural processes. 57. Civil society has to take the lead as the engine for the realization of the right to development. Wider space for civil society and an enabling environment for active civil society engagement was a critical element of the right to development. Civil society organizations had a legitimate role at the micro, meso and macro levels, and should not be seen purely in terms of service delivery. 58. International cooperation, international solidarity, the role of culture and the right to education were all essential in achieving the right to development and in creating an enabling environment for its realization. It was stressed that obstacles to development had to be eliminated, including addressing asymmetries in the global market, the failing dominant economic model, financial regulation through a human rights lens, exploitation of natural resources, and conflict and war. There was a need for political will, both at national and international levels and a need for human rights-based policy coherence. 59. A new compact for development cooperation should emphasize more inclusive aid architecture, effective State institutions, climate finance, aid for trade, and the private sector. Human rights must be at the heart of any new development cooperation architecture, advocating operationalization of a right to development framework, policy coherence, accountability and civil society participation. 60. The preamble to the Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization provides that “sustainable development” is a goal of the organization together with the need for positive efforts designed to ensure that developing countries, secure a share in the growth in international trade commensurate with their economic and sustainable development needs. However, other participants pointed out that multilateral and bilateral trade agreements and the resultant trade arrangements had far-reaching and often adverse implications on the realization of person’s right to development in lowincome countries. Multidimensional aspects of the right to development and all human rights must be mainstreamed in the programmes of United Nations bodies, such as the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and other international organizations such as the World Trade Organization and the World Intellectual Property Organization, and into all thematic agenda of the international community; such aspect include climate change and justice, LDCs, trade and investments, education and culture, etc. B. Recommendations 61. The Human Rights Council should advance the right to development in parallel with intergovernmental processes and the building of a wider constituency through encouraging the broadest participation of civil society and all other relevant stakeholders in promoting the right to development. 62. Implementation of the right to development is enhanced through a range of measures at national, regional and global levels that aim at promoting social and 18