A/HRC/42/38 Non-State actors 171. Civil society should monitor trials with a view to improving access to justice and increasing the fairness of trials. Efforts should be made to ensure that trial-monitoring programmes are sustainable even if foreign funders and international organizations cease funding. 172. Civil society should participate in parliamentary oversight assessments of the work of development banks. 173. Civil society and communities should submit more cases relating to violations of economic, social and cultural rights to the inter-American human rights system. A violation of article 26 of the American Convention on Human Rights – relating to economic, social, educational, scientific and cultural rights – was first found in 2017 by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, so more remains to be done to enforce those rights. 174. At the regional and international levels, affected communities should employ complaints procedures, such as the European Court of Human Rights and those of the United Nations treaty bodies (the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in particular). 175. Civil society should actively participate in the periodic reviews of treaty bodies, including by submitting shadow reports on the implementation of the right to development. Such reports may also be shared with the Working Group on the Right to Development. 176. Regional human rights mechanisms should play a stronger role in advocating for the right to development by monitoring development processes, investigating related human rights violations and developing their own accountability mechanisms. 177. International financial institutions should make their accountability mechanisms more accessible to individuals and communities. 178. International financial institutions should make the complaints and monitoring mechanisms that they finance better known to individuals affected by development programmes and projects. They should systematically provide information on the existing mechanisms and ensure that the mechanisms are accessible (economically and practically). 179. Communities should make use of mediation mechanisms established by international financial institutions, which have provided relief in some cases. 180. Recently established international financial institutions and development agencies should establish effective grievance mechanisms following adequate consultations with relevant civil society organizations. 20