A/HRC/31/31 23. The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has expressed concerns about the continuous decrease over the previous decade of the resources allocated to social sectors, notably health and social protection, whereas budgetary allocations to defence and public security had increased considerably to reach 30 per cent of State expenditures (see, for example, E/C.12/COD/CO/4, para. 16). In 2001, the States members of the African Union pledged to allocate at least 15 per cent of their annual budget to the improvement of the health sector and urged donors to mobilize additional resources. The indicator “health share of total spending of Government as a source” is used to track which of these countries have reached this target and which countries have increased or reduced the proportion of government expenditures allocated to health. 21 24. In the Constitution of Ecuador, it is stated that planning and public policies formulated through participatory approaches are key for realizing human rights and promoting social equality, cohesion and good living (buen vivir). In view thereof, various sectors of the Government (including the National Secretariat for Planning and Development, the Ministry of Justice, Human Rights and Religion and the National Institute for Statistics and Census), the national Ombudsman and various civil society organizations developed and implemented a set of human rights indicators. The system aims to support the integration of human rights into national planning processes, to follow up on the recommendations of the universal periodic review and to increase the capacity of members of the National Secretariat for Planning and Development and the managers of the National Information System to monitor and evaluate public policies from a human rights perspective. Another result of this inter-institutional collaboration is the Atlas of Socioeconomic Inequalities. Launched in 2013, the Atlas is an innovative database that maps persistent gaps in the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights in Ecuador. It contains disaggregated information, including by ethnicity, sex, gender, age and region, and creates new social indicators to measure poverty from a multidimensional perspective. It served as a baseline for the National Strategy for Poverty Eradication and informed the updating of the National Development Plan for 2014-2017. It is expected to continue to guide the formulation of targeted public policies in order to address inequality. 22 25. The progress made by Greece in combating poverty and social exclusion can be assessed through a list of indicators. Targets were set to reduce the number of people most at risk of poverty, including children and young people, unemployed persons, older persons and members of single-parent families. Social safety nets to prevent exclusion, including by ensuring access to basic services, medical care, housing and education, have been prioritized to limit the impact of the crisis (see E/C.12/GRC/2). III. Accountability 26. Part of measuring human rights is looking at States’ efforts to realize the human rights of individuals and communities on their territory or under their jurisdiction. Such measurement holds States accountable for their obligations of conduct and result. 27. Examples are numerous in terms of reporting obligations and monitoring. The information collected by Paraguay through its online platform called SIMORE has been 21 22 See the Abuja Declaration on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Other Related Infectious Diseases and, on the implementation of the declaration, www.who.int/healthsystems/publications/abuja_declaration/en/. See www.siderechos.gob.ec/SIDerecho/web/Home.do and Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, “Construcción de Indicadores de Derechos Humanos: Experiencias Regionales” (2013). 9