A/HRC/RES/58/9 17. Acknowledges the work carried out by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to assist States Parties to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in fulfilling their obligations, including through the elaboration of general comments, the consideration of periodic reports and, for States Parties to the Optional Protocol to the Covenant, the examination of individual communications; 18. Also acknowledges the work of other relevant treaty bodies and special procedures, within their mandates, in the promotion and protection of economic, social and cultural rights, and the important role of the universal periodic review in this regard; 19. Encourages enhanced cooperation and increased coordination between the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and other human rights treaty bodies, United Nations bodies, specialized agencies and programmes and the mechanisms of the Human Rights Council whose activities have a bearing on economic, social and cultural rights, in a manner that respects their distinctive mandates and promotes their policies, programmes and projects; 20. Recognizes and encourages the important contributions of regional organizations, national human rights institutions, national mechanisms for implementation, reporting and follow-up, local and regional governments, Indigenous Peoples and civil society, including non-governmental organizations, academic and research institutions, business enterprises and trade unions, to the promotion and protection of economic, social and cultural rights, including training and information activities, and underlines the importance of consultation with and the participation of affected persons in decisions affecting them; 21. Encourages States, in line with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, to provide effective guidance to business enterprises on how to meet their responsibility to respect human rights, including economic, social and cultural rights, throughout their operations, and to seek to prevent or mitigate adverse human rights impacts that are directly linked to their operations, products or services by their business relationships, even if they have not contributed to those impacts; 22. Encourages the implementation of targeted measures to achieve social protection financing targets and to eradicate poverty by addressing it in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty and the feminization of poverty, inter alia, through rural development strategies that reduce inequalities and that take into account sustainable agriculture, food security and nutrition dimensions and the right to food, and investments in public services, in the social sector and in well-designed, sustainable and efficient social security systems that are accessible for all, including persons with disabilities, and responsive to shocks, and the taking of effective measures for the enjoyment by all persons of their right to social security, including towards its take-up; 23. Also encourages the creation of decent jobs and livelihoods for all, including for young persons, especially in developing countries, while facilitating the transition of workers from the informal to the formal sector and dismantling inequalities in the care economy, also taking into consideration women’s unequal share of unpaid or underpaid care and domestic work and women’s overrepresentation in the informal sector; 24. Stresses the importance of providing and mobilizing sustainable, affordable, accessible, transparent, adequate and predictable development finance from all sources and the required means of implementation to developing countries and of creating a more enabling environment at the global, regional and national levels to increase the mobilization of domestic resources, which contribute to the realization of economic, social and cultural rights, recognizing the instrumentality of financing for development and climate finance to this effect, as well as the importance of fulfilling official development assistance commitments; 25. Encourages international financial institutions to continue to support States in their efforts to build strong institutions, ensuring good governance able to create economic and social resilience in times of polycrisis, and, when doing so, to take into consideration the prioritization of social spending and the enhancement of States’ fiscal space, namely, improving efficiency of public expenditure, improving debt management, accessing external financing, mobilizing domestic resources and reducing the costs of transfer of remittances, 6