A House with Two Rooms - The Advocates for Human Rights

Recommendations to the International Community: Development
With regard to development, the U.N. Declaration on Social Progress and Development, the U.N.
Declaration on the Right to Development, and the Millennium Declaration and its associated
documents provide a guiding framework. The international community should recognize that
“[s]ocial progress and development are the common concerns of the international community, which
shall supplement, by concerted international action, national efforts to raise the living standards of
peoples.” 428 Therefore, with regard to the development of international policies and cooperation, The
Advocates recommends that:
• The international community should intensify international cooperation to ensure “the
international exchange of information, knowledge and experience concerning social progress
and development.” 429
• The international community should “[c]o-operate with [one] another in ensuring development
and eliminating obstacles to development. States should realize their rights and fulfil their
duties in such a manner as to promote a new international economic order based on sovereign
equality, interdependence, mutual interest and co-operation among all States, as well as to
encourage the observance and realization of human rights.” 430
• The international community should take individual and collective steps in the development
of international policies that facilitate the right to development, and ensure international
cooperation to provide Liberia “with appropriate means and facilities to foster [its]
comprehensive development.” 431
• The international community should work toward the development of “international policies
and measures to avoid the ‘brain drain’ and obviate its adverse effects.” 432
Recommendations to the International Community: Financial Assistance
With regard to financial assistance and other support, the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness may
serve as part of the guiding framework in addition to the aforementioned and other documents. 433
The Advocates recommends the following:
• The international community should base its support and conditions for implementation on
Liberia’s national development strategies; 434
• The international community should work together with Liberia to create frameworks for
evaluating country systems, performance, accountability, and transparency; 435
• The international community should employ existing systems and procedures as much as
possible and should strengthen such systems through other measures where needed; it should
avoid reliance on “creating dedicated structures” for managing and executing aid-funded
projects; 436
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