A/HRC/42/29 which included issues related to connectivity and other topics relevant to the right to development. The publication was pre-launched in March 2019, in Marrakech, Morocco, during a side event to the annual Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development. 27. In October 2018, during the high-level conference on international investment agreement reform held by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the High Commissioner delivered a statement on twenty-first century global investment policymaking, and the Deputy High Commissioner discussed the right and duty of States to regulate in the context of mega-infrastructure investment. OHCHR also promoted the publication The Other Infrastructure Gap: Sustainability.22 28. In February 2019, OHCHR led a validation meeting with experts and stakeholders in relation to the European Union-OHCHR project entitled “Bridging the Gap I”. The project is aimed at contributing towards making development cooperation accessible to and inclusive of persons with disabilities through the socioeconomic inclusion of, the equality of and the combating of discrimination against persons with disabilities in low and middleincome countries, and to that end ensuring more inclusive and accountable institutions and policies. The meeting was focused on human rights-based indicators that would provide guidance in the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals and the right to development. III. Analysis of the implementation of the right to development and existing challenges 29. Sustainable Development Goal 17 and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development are critical for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.23 The 2030 Agenda is both informed by the Declaration on the Right to Development and based on the respect for human rights, including the right to development.24 Given the centrality of Goal 17 for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, the high-level political forum is reviewing progress towards that goal on an annual basis. In contribution to that annual review, the progress towards Goal 17 targets is reviewed in the present section, with a focus on the relationship between such progress and the realization of the right to development and related challenges. 30. The notion of a need for strengthened partnerships for development is also at the core of the Declaration on the Right to Development. In accordance with the Declaration (art. 3 (1)), States have the primary responsibility for the creation of national and international conditions favourable to the realization of the right to development. It further provides that States have the duty to cooperate with each other in ensuring development and eliminating obstacles to development (art. 3 (3)). In article 4 (1), the Declaration establishes that States have the duty to take steps, individually and collectively, to formulate international development policies with a view to facilitating the full realization of the right to development. In article 4 (2), it states that sustained action is required to promote more rapid development of developing countries, and that as a complement to the efforts of developing countries, effective international cooperation is essential in providing these countries with appropriate means and facilities to foster their comprehensive development. These articles help to anchor the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in the human rights framework. 31. The present section is organized according to the components of the targets of Goal 17: finance, technology, capacity-building and systemic issues. The section is based on research produced for, and the outcomes of, the first 20 sessions of the Working Group on the Right to Development.25 This includes the findings of the high-level task force on the 22 23 24 25 Available at www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/InfrastructureGapSummary.pdf. General Assembly resolution 70/1, para. 62. Ibid., paras. 10 and 35. See www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Development/Pages/WGRightToDevelopment.aspx. 7