A/HRC/26/20 IX. Conclusions and recommendations 81. Notable efforts have taken place within individual United Nations agencies, funds and programmes to integrate the business and human rights agenda, in particular the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, into their work as relevant. A number of resident coordinators and country teams have also taken up the agenda in their work at the national levels. However, overall, the United Nations appears to be lagging behind some other international and regional organizations in integrating the business and human rights agenda and implementing the recommendations made by the Secretary-General in 2012. Further coordinated efforts are needed at the executive levels of the Organization to ensure that the United Nations approaches this task in a systematic and strategic manner. The following recommendations are made in that context. 82. The business and human rights agenda of the United Nations and the Guiding Principles should be embedded throughout the United Nations systems, including agencies, funds and specialized programmes at the strategic policy level. As the focal point for the business and human rights agenda within the United Nations system, OHCHR has a mandate to mainstream the Guiding Principles in the United Nations system through engagement with system-wide coordination mechanisms and the United Nations Development Group human rights mainstreaming mechanism, which should also be seized of this agenda, as well as other mechanisms identified in the present report. 83. OHCHR should increase its efforts to disseminate and promote capacitybuilding within the United Nations system at the field level, including through efforts alongside United Nations country teams to build capacity. In order to do so, ways in which to secure sufficient funding to support increased efforts should be explored. 84. OHCHR should continue to serve as the focal point for providing uniform advice, guidance and clarification on issues relating to the interpretation of the Guiding Principles to all stakeholders both inside and outside the United Nations system, in collaboration with the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises. 85. OHCHR should increase its efforts to provide public training materials and other resources on the Guiding Principles to support implementation by both States and business enterprises. 86. All United Nations agencies, funds and specialized programmes should review the relevance of the Guiding Principles to their mandates and activities, and should embed the Guiding Principles in their policies and processes where relevant. 87. United Nations resident coordinators and country teams, given their critical role in many countries, should increase their efforts to ensure the coordination of business and human rights and the integration of the Guiding Principles into planning and advocacy efforts at the national level, including, where relevant, into national development assistance frameworks, and, wherever possible, with the engagement of national human rights institutions and Global Compact local networks in those efforts. 88. The Organization’s approaches to investment management, procurement and partnerships with the business sector should be reviewed to ensure that they meet current, globally recognized good practices with regard to the identification and management of human rights risks, as reflected in the Guiding Principles. The 17