A/78/213 sector to ensure everyone’s right to take part in cultural life, then such projects will not be funded, and the cultural dimension of development will re main undermined. 46. Although the implementation of development programmes and strategies should respect all human rights and avoid having a negative impact on their enjoyment and ability to be exercised by all, none of the existing planning and monitoring mechanisms for their implementation have a systematic human rights impact assessment. It is left to States and to development agencies to analyse their development work and methodologies in terms of human rights. 47. At the World Bank, this translates into a partial approach to human rights: they are mentioned in the principles and guidelines, but only some of them are truly operationalized in the Environmental and Social Standards. With respect to the rest, the World Bank seeks to avoid adverse impacts and support its member countries as they strive to progressively achieve their human rights commitment. 48. The policies of WIPO are aligned with cultural rights, but do not explicitly integrate them. The 2007 recommendations under the WIPO Development Agenda, 44 important as they may be in internalizing cultural rights, do not mention them when referring to inclusive and participatory processes, the protection of traditional knowledge and folklore and further access to knowledge. 45 The independent review of the implementation of the Development Agenda recommendations, in 2016, was a missed opportunity to discuss the effects of the work of WIPO on cultural development and cultural conditions. 46 The 2023 report on the contribution of WIPO to the implementation of the Goals and their associated targets still does not refer to the cultural dimension of development, nor does it discuss the impact of WIPO development work on cultural resources. In addition, WIPO initiatives only address specific issues, mainly the traditional knowledge and heritage of Indigenous Peoples and local populations. In limiting the scope of culture, they also limit the scope of cultural rights. 49. Culture, as recognized in General Assembly resolution 76/214, represents a source of identity, innovation and creativity for individuals and their communities. Cultural development, from a human rights perspective, encompasses the development of each person’s identity, individual and collective, and of their ability to contribute to innovation and express their creativity; the development of practices, ideas and philosophies that can be shared and used in developing other aspects of the individual and groups; and the development of material resources, spaces and conditions that allow the exercise of everyone’s right to take part in cultural life and in the decision-making processes that have an impact on it. Focusing only on the cultural development of the most marginalized or with only a heritage perspective limits the potential transformation that can be achieved through a comprehensive understanding of cultural development and rights. 50. In general, one has to bear in mind that although some organizations have declared a welcoming focus on cultural rights, there remain crucial questions about the models that some of these bodies pursue, and whether these lead to the needed paradigm shift. 47 __________________ 44 45 46 47 14/24 Available at www.wipo.int/ip-development/en/agenda/recommendations.html. See recommendations 27 and 35. WIPO, Committee on Development and Intellectual Property, Report on the Independent Review of the Implementation of the Development Agenda Recommendations, Eighteenth Session (CDIP/18/7 (2016)). Contribution of International Federation of Library Assoc iations and Institutions (2022). 23-14310