HIGHLIGHTS OF RESULTS D5 Environmental and climate policies and plans increasingly respect, protect and fulfil human rights, guaranteeing those affected access to information, decision-making, public participation and remedies. D6 Human rights assessments and impact analyses mitigate, prevent or redress the negative effects of economic, trade and development policies and projects. D7 States integrate human rights, including the right to development and human rights mechanisms’ outcomes, as they implement the Sustainable Development Goals and other development and poverty eradication efforts; and the UN supports them in these purposes, integrating human rights in its own development work. NHRIs from across South Asia and Southeast Asia were convened by OHCHR for the first dialogue held on the transboundary impact of climate change on human rights, which included an exchange on key lessons learned from a variety of actions taken in the subregion. Additionally, we continued to closely monitor emblematic cases of environmental HRDs and community activists targeted by governments, private companies or State-owned enterprises. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that was signed by OHCHR and the United Nations Environment Programme in 2019 provided initial scope, which will be further broadened in 2020, to jointly engage with stakeholders in the region on the environment and climate change. In partnership with the Independent Accountability Mechanisms (IAMs) of multilateral development banks (MDBs), we worked to develop policies and procedures on reprisals and contextual risk assessment tools and to strengthen the effectiveness of IAMs. The High Commissioner headlined a high-level event in the margins of the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings on reprisals in Washington D.C., which built momentum for more IAMs to adopt policies related to reprisals during the year. OHCHR continued its research and advocacy on the safeguard policy review processes of MDBs and produced a draft due diligence benchmarking study to compare the safeguard policies of development financing institutions against the standards outlined in the UNGPs, which influence safeguard policy revision processes. OHCHR also produced a series of project case studies as part of its advocacy efforts on the safeguard policy review processes of MDBs. OHCHR co-organized a panel at the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) region entitled “Leave No One Behind: Driving policies through data and a human rights-based approach,” to present and illustrate the linkages between human rights and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. To sensitize and engage the incoming European Parliament on the SDGs and its linkages with human rights, the UN Brussels Team, composed of 25 UN entities, including OHCHR, invited candidates standing for the European Parliament elections, to sign a 10-point pledge to “Leave No One Behind.” By the end of 2019, 67 Members of the European Parliament had signed the pledge to personally defend human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights. Many more joined the pledge, which will remain open for signature throughout 2020. The UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) has a strong normative and human rights foundation. This will provide a robust basis for UN Human Rights engagement at regional and country levels to ensure the integration of human rights into UN development work and support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. UN Human Rights participated in all of the UN Development System reform work streams and processes, most importantly in the development of the Management and Accountability Framework, the new Guidance for the UNSDCF, the System-Wide Strategic Document and the Regional Review. A number of initiatives were carried out in Central Asia to contribute to the integration of human rights into national frameworks for the SDGs. In Turkmenistan, UN Human Rights supported the elaboration of a road map on the implementation of recommendations issued 28 UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2019 Shifts: Global Constituency Prevention Civic Space