A/HRC/42/29 assessments in undertaking national policies that may contribute to or undermine the realization of the right to development in other countries. 55. Multilateral development and financial institutions that have engaged with the Working Group have acknowledged that the principles underlying the Declaration on the Right to Development guide the policies and programmes of those institutions.89 Target 17.15 – policy space and leadership 56. The shrinking share of country programmable aid and budget support puts at risk hard-won gains in strengthening country ownership and leadership. The Working Group has proposed that the criteria for assessing global partnerships for development should include the extent to which a partnership respects the right of each State to determine its own development policies, in accordance with its international obligations. 90 The high-level task force and experts have emphasized the importance of striking a balance between national policy space and the commitments of the State under multilateral agreements in trade, investment and related areas.91 2. Multi-stakeholder partnerships Target 17.16 – global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships 57. The Working Group has adopted a detailed set of criteria for assessing global partnerships from the perspective of the right to development. Criteria include the extent to which such partnerships: contribute to the realization of all human rights; ensure the constant improvement of well-being on the basis of active, free and meaningful participation; value and promote gender equality; include fair, institutionalized mechanisms of mutual accountability and review; and are sensitive to the concerns and needs of the most vulnerable and marginalized. 92 Achieving target 17.16 should also help remove obstacles to the right to development and address inequalities among individuals or peoples in different regions or countries.93 Target 17.17 – effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships 58. The public sector alone will not be able to close the Sustainable Development Goals financing gap. Private-public partnerships that respect the principles enshrined in the Declaration on the Right to Development and adopt a people-centred, human rights-based approach to development can help fill the resource gap. The Economic Commission for Europe has stated that economic development should be transformational and inclusive, should foster resilience, and should be socially and environmentally oriented and circular, and has emphasized the importance of partnerships in meeting those broad objectives. In accordance with the Commission’s Guiding Principles on People-first Public-Private Partnerships in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the peoplefirst approach to such partnerships should focus on five broad desirable outcomes: access and equality; environmental sustainability; economic effectiveness, including fiscal sustainability; replicability; and stakeholder engagement. 94 59. While public-private partnerships and blended financing hold great promise, experts have warned of the rights-related risks of such partnerships where the above-mentioned conditions are not met,95 for example in the area of education. 96 The Special Rapporteur on 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 14 E/CN.4/2005/25, para. 38. E/CN.4/2006/26, para. 67 (b). See, for example, E/CN.4/2005/WG.18/2, para. 33; A/HRC/15/WG.2/TF/2/Add.1 and Corr.1, para. 69; and De Schutter, “The international dimensions of the right to development”, para. 126. E/CN.4/2006/26, para. 67. See A/HRC/39/18. Guiding Principles, pp. 3–4. See Khan, “Promoting rights-based climate finance”, pp. 16–17 and paras. 75–78. See also De Schutter, “The international dimensions of the right to development”, para. 90.