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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Human Rights Reader 271</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">HUMAN RIGHTS
ARE CENTRAL OBJECTIVES OF DEVELOPMENT; IT IS UTTERLY INSUFFICIENT TO REFER TO
THEM AS ONE OF THE ‘CROSS-CUTTING’ ISSUES</span>.</b><span style="color:blue"> </span>(part
3 of 3)<span style="color:blue"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Accountability
in foreign aid</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span></b></p><br><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">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?</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">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. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">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 <u>and</u> to the people aid is supposed to help. </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Such an
accountability towards the ultimate recipients of aid is simply missing.</span></span></p>

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