A House with Two Rooms - The Advocates for Human Rights

• The international community should harmonize activities and simplify procedures by
cooperating to decrease the “number of separate, duplicative missions to the field and
diagnostic reviews” and use joint trainings to build capacity. 437 The international donor
community should “align to the maximum extent possible behind central governmentled
strategies,” “avoid activities that undermine national institution building,” and “use an
appropriate mix of aid instruments.” 438 The donor community should more effectively allocate
responsibility by delegating authorities on the sectoral or national level, where appropriate, to
direct the execution of such activities. 439
• The international community should enhance aid predictability by scheduling how Liberia’s
financial aid will be increased to better allow the Government of Liberia to plan for multiyear
projects. 440
• The international community should continue to fund and scale up assistance to Liberia. 441 It
should follow through on pledges and immediately appropriate outstanding funds and other
assistance to Liberia. 442
• The international community should renew aid funding for long-term and unresolved
displacement, with attention to vulnerable populations. 443
• The international community should take steps toward facilitating Liberia’s development in
economic terms, including:
o “The laying down of economic growth rate targets…within the United Nations policy
for development, high enough to lead to a substantial acceleration of [Liberia’s] rates
of growth;
o The provision of greater assistance on better terms; the implementation of the
aid volume target of a minimum of [one] per cent of the gross national product at
market prices of economically advanced countries; the general easing of the terms of
lending to [Liberia] through low interest rates on loans and long grace periods for the
repayment of loans, and the assurance that the allocation of such loans will be based
strictly on socioeconomic criteria free of any political considerations;
o The provision of technical, financial and material assistance, both bilateral and
multilateral, to the fullest possible extent and on favourable terms, and improved
co-ordination of international assistance for the achievement of the social objectives
of national development plans;
o The provision to [Liberia] of technical, financial and material assistance and of
favorable conditions to facilitate the direct exploitation of [its] national resources
and natural wealth…with a view to enabling the [Liberian people] to benefit fully
from their national resources;
o “The expansion of international trade based on principles of equality and nondiscrimination,
the rectification of the position of [Liberia] in international trade by
equitable terms of trade, a general non-reciprocal and non-discriminatory system of
preferences for the exports of [Liberia] to the developed countries, the establishment
and implementation of general and comprehensive commodity agreements, and the
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