A/HRC/40/3 B. Development 1. Sustainable Development Goals 17. OHCHR increased its engagement in advancing sustainable development through the promotion and protection of human rights. It supported regional events with Resident Coordinators and other senior United Nations officials in Chile, Ethiopia and Senegal to foster linkages between the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and the recommendations of international human rights mechanisms. It also produced analyses on the links between economic, social and cultural rights and the Sustainable Development Goals.1 18. At the country level, OHCHR provided technical assistance to and participated in inter-agency engagements, including support to States through mainstreaming, acceleration and policy support initiatives, and in capacity-building for United Nations country teams, including in El Salvador, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Uzbekistan and Zimbabwe. It strengthened the collaboration between statistical offices and human rights institutions on indicators and a human rights-based approach to data, including in GuineaBissau, Kenya, Pakistan, Tunisia, Uganda and the State of Palestine. 2 19. OHCHR supported Member States and civil society in the context of the 2018 HighLevel Political Forum on Sustainable Development. It organized expert meetings and side events, including on the enjoyment of human rights by all women and girls and the systematic mainstreaming of a gender perspective into the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. 2. Right to development 20. OHCHR completed studies on the international dimensions of the right to development, illicit financial flows, international investment agreements and industrialization, and climate finance to support the Working Group on the Right to Development. It also supported the work of the Special Rapporteur on the right to development. With academic institutions, OHCHR provided an e-learning module on operationalizing the right to development in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals to over 100 participants from over 60 countries. 3. International financial institutions 21. OHCHR continued its engagement with development and financing institutions to promote the integration of human rights into their policies and accountability mechanisms. It also contributed to initiatives to develop policies governing responses to intimidation and reprisals against environmental and human rights defenders. 4. Economic, social and cultural rights 22. OHCHR strengthened its work and partnerships to promote and protect economic and social rights, including the rights to education, food, health, housing, water and sanitation, work and land rights. It raised the visibility of those rights through collaboration with United Nations agencies in the context of the UDHR70 campaign. In the framework of UN-Water, it led inter-agency advocacy efforts on the human rights to water and sanitation for World Water Day in 2019. 23. OHCHR engaged on addressing forced evictions, including those related to land and natural resources, often affecting indigenous communities. It engaged in advocacy and provided advice on legislative and policy changes, mediation and/or capacity-building support for civil society and affected communities, including in Cambodia, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Fiji, Guatemala and Thailand. 1 2 4 See A/HRC/37/30, A/HRC/37/32, A/HRC/38/37 and E/2018/57. See “A human rights-based approach to data: leaving no one behind in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, available from www.ohchr.org/HRBAD.