A/HRC/22/24 that have been effective in reducing maternal mortality and morbidity. Such examples combine sustained efforts to address the underlying causes of maternal mortality and morbidity, while ensuring better access to quality health care and empowering women. 62. In 2012, the High Commissioner prepared technical guidance on the application of a human rights-based approach to policies and programmes for the reduction of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity (A/HRC/21/22 and Corr.1 and 2). Guidance is aimed principally at policymakers seeking to design maternal health policies in accordance with human rights requirements. It follows the policy cycle of planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and accountability, including details of the required steps from a human rights perspective at each stage. 63. OHCHR and UN-Women convened an expert group meeting on good practices and lessons learned in realizing women’s rights to productive resources, with a focus on land, from 25 to 27 June 2012. The meeting focused on legislative and policy reforms and other initiatives to realize women’s rights to productive resources, in particular land, as well as on going challenges and ways to address those challenges. 64. Building on the work and consultations carried out by the mandate holders of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing since 2002, OHCHR released in 2012 a publication on women and the right to adequate housing.11 This publication identifies the specific challenges, discrimination and biased attitudes faced by women in relation to adequate housing. The publication also considers issues such as inheritance, forced evictions, domestic violence, HIV/AIDS and the financial crisis through a substantiveequality lens and suggests ways to move forward on an issue that affects millions of women in both developing and developed countries. 65. OHCHR in collaboration with the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, hosted a consultation on women and economic, social and cultural rights in October 2011 in Geneva. The consultation brought together key actors working on women’s economic, social and cultural rights: United Nations treaty bodies (the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the Human Rights Committee); special procedures (including the recently established Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice and the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity); civil society advocates and experts; human right and gender advisors from United Nations agencies (the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), UN-Women and the World Health Organization) and OHCHR staff members. The consultation identified key challenges faced by women in the enjoyment of their economic, social and cultural rights, and mapped substantive issues in need of conceptual clarity, better coherence or practical guidance. 66. In Kenya, OHCHR actively supported the creation of the Gender and Equality Commission In the light of the newly adopted Constitution. The Commission is the principal organ of the State for ensuring compliance with all treaties and conventions ratified by Kenya relating to issues of equality and freedom from discrimination. It is also mandated to work with other relevant institutions in the implementation of policies for the progressive realization of the economic and social rights specified in the Constitution and other applicable laws. 11 16 Women and the Right to Adequate Housing (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.11.XIV.4). Available from www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/WomenHousing_HR.PUB.11.2.pdf.