Advance Edited Version of the Report of the high-level task force on the implementation of the right to development on its second meeting

The high-level task force the implementation of the right to development was set up in pursuance of the Commission on Human Rights resolution 2004/7, within the framework of the Working Group on the Right to Development. Its mandate was renewed in Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/4 upon recommendation of the Working Group at its sixth session.

The objective of the task force is to provide the necessary expertise to the Working Group to enable it to make appropriate recommendations to the various actors on the issues identified for the implementation of the right to development. The task force comprises five experts nominated by the Chairperson of the Working Group on the Right to Development in consultation with the regional groups of member-States, and representatives from the identified international trade, finance and development institutions.

The first high-level task force meeting took place in Geneva from 13 to 17 December 2004. The meeting arrived at a set of conclusions and recommendations on the mandated issues, reflected in the report of the task force.

As requested by the Working Group at its sixth session and by the Commission at its 61th session, the task force was to consider for its analysis and recommendations to the Working Group the following issues reflecting both national and international perspectives:

• Millennium Development Goal 8, global partnership for development, and suggest criteria for its periodic evaluation with the aim of improving the effectiveness of global partnerships with regard to the realization of the right to development.

List of documents:

• Provisional agenda
• Annotations to the provisional Agenda
• Draft Programme of Work
• Preliminary concept note
• Background and reference documents
• Draft Background Paper 1: The right to development and practical strategies for the implementation of MDGs, particularly MDG 8
• Draft Background Paper 2: Millennium Development Goal 8: indicators for monitoring implementation
• Draft Background Paper 3: Summary of submissions

State submissions:

• Germany
• Kenya
• Russian Federation
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6

Others:

• The right of everyone to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
• A Human Rights perspective on the Millennium Development Goals: paper prepared as a contribution to the work of the Millennium Project Task Force on Poverty and Economic Development
• The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
• Who Synthesis
• Study paper 1: Mapping Global Health Partnerships
• Study paper 2: Economic and financial aspects of the global health partnerships
• Study paper 3: Global health partnership impact on commodity princing and security
• Study paper 4: Global health partnerships and neglected diseases
• Study paper 5: Global health partnerships increasing their impact by improved governance
• Study paper 6: The determinants of effectiveness: partnerships that deliver review of the GHP and 'business' literature
• Study paper 7: Assessing the impact of global health partnerships
• Study paper 8: The product development pathway
• Submission OCHR through ACUNS
• The political economy of peacebuilding: a critical theory perspective
• Parliamentary Involvement in International Affairs: A report by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
  to the Second World Conference of Speakers of Parliaments New York, 7-9 September, 2005
• A Partnership for Development: International Human Rights Law as an Assessment Instrument
• Submission to the task-force on the implementation of the right to development whithin the framework of the Working Group on the Right to Development
• Briefing note to the 2nd Session of the UN High-Level Task Force on the Implementation of the Right to Development