Integrating Human Rights in the Anti-Corruption Agenda - The ICHRP

Recommendations
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Given the limits of horizontal accountability, donors, anti-corruption
advocates and other relevant actors should promote and support social
accountability strategies. In this, they should acknowledge the potential
of formal and informal, co-operative and adversarial approaches.
Anti-corruption advocates should explore “bottom-up” accountability
mechanisms, including human rights monitoring and efforts to link
corruption with human rights violations. Such initiatives can mobilise a
broader spectrum of people and put those directly affected by human
rights violations in a leadership role.
Donors and anti-corruption advocates should involve disadvantaged
groups in vertical accountability strategies with the aim of empowering
them to claim resources and rights to which they are entitled.
Beyond formal lines of accountability, public officials, development
agencies and anti-corruption advocates should focus on powerholders’
accountability in relation to the content of public policy.
Evaluation should take account of norms of social justice and the
fulfilment of rights.
Anti-corruption activists can benefit from using the different national,
regional and international accountability mechanisms that exist to
monitor and enforce compliance with human rights. Strategic litigation
is one approach in this context.
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