A/HRC/42/29 I. Introduction 1. In its resolution 48/141, establishing the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the General Assembly decided that the High Commissioner should promote and protect the realization of the right to development and enhance support from relevant bodies of the United Nations for that purpose. The General Assembly also decided that the High Commissioner should recognize the importance of promoting balanced and sustainable development for all people and of ensuring the realization of the right to development, as established in the Declaration on the Right to Development. 2. The Human Rights Council, in its resolution 39/9, requested the High Commissioner to continue to submit to the Council an annual report on the activities of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), including on interagency coordination within the United Nations system, that have direct relevance to the realization of the right to development, and to provide an analysis of the implementation of the right to development, taking into account existing challenges and making recommendations on how to overcome them. 3. In its resolution 73/166, the General Assembly reaffirmed its request to the High Commissioner, in mainstreaming the right to development, to effectively undertake activities aimed at strengthening the global partnership for development among Member States, development agencies and the international development, financial and trade institutions and to reflect those activities in detail in her next report to the Human Rights Council. 4. The General Assembly also requested the Secretary-General to submit a report to the Assembly at its seventy-fourth session and an interim report to the Human Rights Council on the implementation of resolution 73/166, including efforts undertaken at the national, regional and international levels in the promotion and realization of the right to development. 5. The present report is submitted in accordance with the above requests. It contains an overview of the activities of OHCHR relating to the promotion and realization of the right to development, covering the period from June 2018 to May 2019, and an analysis of the implementation of the right to development, existing challenges and recommendations on how to overcome them. II. Activities of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 6. In implementing its mandate to promote and protect the realization of the right to development, OHCHR is guided by the Declaration on the Right to Development, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council and conclusions and recommendations of the Working Group on the Right to Development. 7. The OHCHR operational framework for promoting and protecting the realization of the right to development is contained in the biennial programme plan and priorities for the period 2018–20191 and the United Nations Human Rights Management Plan for the period 2018–2021.2 1 2 2 A/71/6/Rev.1 (Programme 20), pp. 486–491. Available at www2.ohchr.org/english/ohchrreport2018_2021/OHCHRManagementPlan20182021.pdf.