A/HRC/21/39 2011-2012: Follow-up to the Independent Expert’s report and submission to the Human Rights Council 20. In 2011, OHCHR held a consultation on the draft guiding principles on the basis of the annotated outline by the Independent Expert (by now designated Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights). The consultation benefited from inputs and participation from States, international organisations, national human rights institutions, NGOs and experts, as well as from oral statements made during a two-day meeting in Geneva. 21. During the consultation, a strong consensus emerged as to the need for and the importance of adoption of the Guiding Principles as a policy tool for the eradication of poverty and the promotion and protection of all human rights of people living in poverty. States and stakeholders also broadly endorsed the outline of the draft guiding principles as elaborated by the Special Rapporteur and the relevance of existing human rights standards and obligations for combating poverty. The OHCHR submitted its analytical compilation of this consultation (A/HRC/19/32) to the Human Rights Council at its 19 th session in March 2012. 22. As requested by the resolution 15/19, the Special Rapporteur pursued further work on the draft guiding principles on the basis of the report of the consultation prepared by OHCHR, with the aim to “submit a final draft of the revised guiding principles to the Human Rights Council at its 21st session (September 2012) in order to allow the Human Rights Council to take a decision on the way forward with a view to the adoption by 2012 of guiding principles on the rights of persons living in extreme poverty” (A/HRC/15/19). 23. In June 2012, the Special Rapporteur completed a round of briefings to the regional groups of member States (WEOG, Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe, GRULAC and African group) regarding the latest draft of the Guiding Principles. These additional briefings constitute another effort aimed at facilitating agreement on the draft text, so that the text may be adopted by consensus during the Human Rights Council’s 23 rd session in September 2012. 28