A/HRC/15/WG.2/TF/2 is transformed into a template that allows reporting countries or institutions to enter the required information in a convenient format, adapted according to the particular characteristics of the users. The validity and usefulness of the template should be pilot-tested with partnerships in the areas the Working Group might wish to select. That process could afford an opportunity to adjust the criteria further to achieve greater comprehensiveness and accuracy. One approach to pilot-testing the reporting template could include collecting data on the policies and practices of several States or of arrangements of particular development objectives; a blind analysis could then be made of the results. This approach would ensure the objectivity of the tool and the eventual elaboration of recommendations to bring policies and practices into greater conformity with the right to development without bias. Without such a tool, the task force is concerned that judgements regarding what may or may not contribute to the right to development run the risk of being speculative or politically motivated. 3. Consultations with regional institutions 74. The Working Group may wish to encourage initiatives and senior-level consultations involving regional institutions on the integration of right to development concerns and criteria into their policies and activities, as witnessed recently in Arusha.4 Such regional consultations, which might also include the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and European human rights institutions, would allow those bodies to reflect on how their efforts to promote human rights within and in the context of their respective regions can build upon the work of the task force, particularly with regard to the effective realization of the right to development. 75. A special modality of regional consultations could be organized with the new intergovernmental human rights bodies that came into existence in 2009 under the auspices of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the League of Arab States. The Working Group may wish to invite representatives of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights and the Arab Human Rights Committee to explore how they might incorporate right to development concerns into their future work in promoting and protecting human rights in their respective member States. 4. Further development of a comprehensive and coherent set of standards 76. The Working Group has expressed the intention to use the criteria to develop a comprehensive and coherent set of standards, which could take several forms. As a start, the Working Group might wish to seek information, properly analysed on existing examples used in the United Nations system, such as guidelines, codes of conduct or practice notes, and examine proposals for the structure and methods for drafting of a set of standards most suited to the right to development. A mechanism could then be put in place to formulate such a set of standards based on the criteria prepared by the task force. 77. While differing views exist with regard to the timing, content and principle of a legal instrument of a binding character, the compromise language of paragraph 2 (b) of resolution 12/23, adopted by the Human Rights Council in spite of 14 abstentions, 4 GE.10-11443 The African Union Commission, OHCHR and the Economic Commission for Africa, in cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, organized a meeting on improved interaction between the universal periodic review, the African peer review mechanism and the right to development, on 23 and 24 November 2009. 17

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