A/HRC/33/22 was co-led by UNICEF and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), contributing to increased understanding of equality as a fundamental human right and non-discrimination issue.33 43. Subsequently, OHCHR continued to provide contributions throughout the process to define the 2030 Agenda via the United Nations Technical Support Team, to ensure that a human rights approach was reflected in Goal 16 targets, and that a target on providing universal legal identity through birth registration was included. During the negotiation process, OHCHR provided support for the drafting of the Sustainable Development Goals, and technical input was supplied, where requested, to support member State positions on the draft agreement. OHCHR also engaged in further collaboration with civil society, the United Nations system and other partners on the substance of Goal 16, for example through the Virtual Network on Indicators for Sustainable Development Goal 16, led by UNDP, and the Praia Group on Governance Statistics under the auspices of the United Nations Statistical Commission. Indicators 44. OHCHR has worked to support the development of Sustainable Development Goal indicators that incorporate key human rights considerations, and to ensure the inclusion of indicators to support the realization of universal legal identity. OHCHR develops policy and practical guidance, provides technical advice and conducts training activities on human rights indicators, to support national and international stakeholders in measuring and monitoring the implementation of human rights standards. OHCHR has also participated consistently in the work of the international statistical community to develop indicators for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals, with a view to strengthening human rights approaches to measurement using statistical methods and tools. 45. The input of OHCHR to the development of indicators to monitor progress under Goal 16 targets has been extensive. For example, OHCHR proposed the inclusion of an indicator on monitoring target 16.9 to the United Nations Technical Support Team, the head of chief statisticians of the United Nations system, and the Virtual Network on Indicators for Sustainable Development Goal 16, and in the global list of indicators compiled by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators.34 This indicator (16.9.1) on the “proportion of children under 5 years of age whose births have been registered with a civil authority, by age”, has now been included in the global list of indicators endorsed by the United Nations Statistical Commission.35 OHCHR subsequently prepared metadata for this indicator in consultation with national statistics offices, United Nations agencies, civil society organizations and other relevant stakeholders. 46. As part of its efforts to integrate human rights considerations into the list of indicators agreed to monitor progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, OHCHR has undertaken substantial engagement with the United Nations Statistical Commission and with the wider statistical community, for example, by participating in the 2016 session of the Statistical Commission, which involved chief statisticians from member States, and through its membership on the steering committee of the Praia Group on Governance Statistics, a key forum through which to advance indicators related to governance and indicators related to monitoring target 16.9, on birth registration. The substantive input of OHCHR during the processes to define the 2030 Agenda goals, targets and indicators, as 33 34 35 www.worldwewant2030.org/inequalities. See E/CN.3/2016/2/Rev.1, annex IV. The Statistical Commission, in its decision 47/101, agreed with this list of indicators as a practical starting point, subject to future technical refinement. See E/2016/24-E/CN.3/2016/34, chap. I.B. 15

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