HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
th
10 REGULAR SESSION (2-27 March 2009)
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Item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political,
economic, social, and cultural rights, including the right to development
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food
A/HRC/10/5
A. Improving the contribution of international aid to the realization of the
right to food: the role of national strategies
29. One of the commitments of the States adhering to the Paris Declaration on
Aid Effectiveness is to enhance partner countries’ accountability to their citizens
and parliaments for their development policies, strategies and performance
(paras. 3 (iii), and 14). This objective has been further reaffirmed by the Accra
Summit on Aid Effectiveness of 2-4 September 2008 and in the 2008 Doha
Declaration on Financing for Development. The elaboration, through
participatory processes, of a national strategy for the realization of the right to
food provides a concrete means to improve the accountability of national
governments and their responsiveness to the needs of their populations. The
Accra Agenda for Action provides that developing countries and donors will
“ensure that their respective development policies and programmes are
designed and implemented in ways consistent with their agreed international
commitments on gender equality, human rights, disability and environmental
sustainability” (para. 13 (d)). Grounding development assistance on the human
right to food would contribute to this agenda. Since development cooperation
programmes would fit into a national strategy for the realization of the right to
food defined at national level, the recipient Government would improve its
bargaining position in aid negotiations. Since this national strategy would
involve national parliaments and civil society organizations, development
policies would be democratized. And since it would set benchmarks and
allocate responsibilities, it would increase accountability in their implementation.