PHM-Exch> Food for a thought that does not represent the people (3)

[Claudio Schuftan]

Human Rights Reader 271



*HUMAN RIGHTS ARE CENTRAL OBJECTIVES OF DEVELOPMENT; IT IS UTTERLY
INSUFFICIENT TO REFER TO THEM AS ONE OF THE ‘CROSS-CUTTING’ ISSUES.* (part 3
of 3)



*Accountability in foreign aid*

* *

Efforts to increase the type of foreign aid that strengthens human rights
institutions and accountabilities should go in tandem with the actual
disbursement of foreign aid funds. But is this the case?



Mutual accountability is the least developed Paris Declaration principle
that would definitely benefit from a human rights perspective so that civil
society’s capacity to hold donors and their own (recipient) governments
accountable needs to be strengthened.



A number of the deep-seated problems in the current foreign aid system stem
from an imbalance of accountabilities --with ‘upwards’ accountability to
donors prioritized over ‘downwards’ accountability to the poor countries *
and* to the people aid is supposed to help. Such an accountability towards
the ultimate recipients of aid is simply missing.

To read the full text of this Reader, go to


http://wp.me/plAxa-1t7

Claudio
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