A/HRC/15/24 20. In March 2010, OHCHR participated in a workshop organized by the Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, providing contributions from a right to development perspective, particularly in the context of access to medicines. The workshop discussed concrete activities as a follow-up to World Health Assembly resolution 59.26 on international trade and health, which called upon WHO to provide support for Member States to understand the implications of international trade and trade agreements for health, and to address relevant issues through policies and legislation. 5. Financing for development 21. In October 2009, OHCHR, in cooperation with the Centre of Concern, held a side event on “Human rights and financing for development: towards realizing the right to development” at the sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly in New York. The event brought together human rights and development experts, as well as civil society representatives. The aim was to raise awareness of the potential role of the right to development in overcoming the development challenges faced today, and to bring more fairness to global economic governance. The deliberations highlighted the importance of creating an enabling global environment for development, including through the financing for development process. Participants noted that this could be achieved by integrating the right to development approach into both national and global policymaking. The discussions stressed the added value of human rights principles, including the right to development for the financing for development process, the need for good governance at both the national and international levels, and the importance of closer cooperation between agencies in the areas of human rights, development and financing for development. B. 1. Strengthening global partnership for development The right to development criteria 22. In 2005, the Working Group requested the high-level task force on the implementation of the right to development to examine Millennium Development Goal 8 on a global partnership for development, and to suggest criteria for its periodic evaluation with the aim of improving the effectiveness of global partnerships with regard to the realization of the right to development (E/CN.4/2005/25, para. 54 (i)). In 2006, the Working Group adopted the right to development criteria and requested the task force to apply them, on a pilot basis, to selected partnerships, with a view to their operationalization and progressive development, and thus contributing to mainstreaming the right to development in the policies and operational activities of relevant actors at the national, regional and international levels, including multilateral financial, trade and development institutions (E/CN.4/2006/26, para. 77). In 2009, the Working Group decided that the revised criteria and sub-criteria should address the essential features of the right to development, as defined in the Declaration on the Right to Development, in a comprehensive and coherent way, including priority concerns of the international community beyond those enumerated in Millennium Development Goal 8, and that they should serve the purposes set out in all relevant provisions of Human Rights Council resolution 9/3 (A/HRC/12/28, para. 45). 23. As requested by the Working Group, OHCHR provided all necessary support to the task force in the implementation of the recommendations of the Working Group, including the development of the right to development criteria and sub-criteria. In December 2009, OHCHR, jointly with the Program on Human Rights in Development at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Measurement and Human Rights Program at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, held an expert consultation on “Elaboration of criteria and 7