A House with Two Rooms - The Advocates for Human Rights

• The Government of Liberia and the Independent National Commission on Human Rights
should request that regional bodies such as the Economic Community of West African States
and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights assist with monitoring the
effective implementation of TRC recommendations.
• As the TRC ceases operations, the Government of Liberia and the Independent National
Commission on Human Rights should ensure that a specific plan for archiving TRC
records and for ensuring their availability to the public, as well as their confidentiality when
appropriate, is in place. 415
Recommendations to Civil Society Organizations
• Civil society organizations should play an active role in monitoring and advocacy related to
implementation of the TRC recommendations.
• Civil society organizations should partner with the Independent National Commission on
Human Rights to ensure that individuals who participated in the TRC process continue to
receive support and continue to be engaged with implementation of TRC recommendations
that they participated in crafting.
• In particular, civil society should be actively involved in advocacy, documentation, and
planning of vetting and other personnel reform processes for public employees given the dire
need for these reforms and given the difficulty of self-reform in this context. 416
Potential Implementation Strategy: Monitoring Implementation of the TRC Recommendations
Following the model in Sierra Leone (see http://www.slcmp.org/drwebsite/index.shtml), civil society
organizations in Liberia may wish to establish a coalition of groups to monitor TRC implementation
of TRC recommendations, the Independent National Commission on Human Rights, as well as any
prosecutorial processes that are established. A first step in this regard might be establishment of a
Non-governmental Sectoral & Thematic Coordination Network relative to TRC implementation under
the auspices of the Ministry of Planning and Economic Affairs (see http://www.emansion.gov.lr/doc/
NGOPolicguidelines.pdf).
• Civil society and international organizations in Liberia should carry out their activities in
compliance with Liberia’s National Policy on Non-governmental Organizations 417 and
in consideration of the International Non-Governmental Organisations Accountability
Charter, 418 specifically:
o Compliance with accreditation and reporting procedures, as well as the laws of
Liberia;
o Transparency, non-discrimination, and respect for human rights at all levels of
organizational activity;
o Formulation of projects should be guided by national development priorities;
o Projects should be designed and implemented in collaboration with target
beneficiaries.
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