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guidelines recommend alternative methods of mobilizing national and international
resources. Moreover, they also identify non-financial resources to be mobilized.
55.
The practical recommendations set out below relate to mobilizing resources for
development programmes that are inclusive and sustainable.
National level
56.
States should implement effective economic and social reforms to ensure that the
benefits of growth are equitably distributed to all segments of the population and to reduce
inequalities. Communities whose resources are taken or put at risk by national or regional
development projects must be adequately compensated.
57.
States should put in place gender equality and social protection policies.
Governments should pay particular attention to unpaid care work, devising economic
policies and national accounting methods that enable the redistribution of care work and
address the disproportionate impact that this kind of work has on women’s development.
States should recognize and formalize care work by remunerating those who take on the
caring function and providing proper training in that regard.
58.
States should promote human rights-driven budgeting, including budgeting that
specifically promotes gender equality and other forms of equality.
59.
States should move away from “financializing” social policies, that is, turning social
services into profit-generating opportunities. There is a need to reverse the trend of
privatizing social services, such as health care and education, which are the primary
responsibility of States under international human rights law.
60.
States should guarantee social protection floors and welfare, even in times of
economic and financial crisis, in line with the Social Protection Floors Recommendation,
2012 (No. 202), of the International Labour Organization.
61.
States should guarantee that communities are meaningfully involved in setting the
terms for – and sharing the benefits of – all development ventures, including public-private
partnerships. They should ensure that civil society plays a role in measuring the success of
public-private partnerships, evaluating partnerships based on services delivered to the
public and ensuring conformity with existing norms and obligations.
62.
Governments should conduct human rights impact assessments before taking
decisions about reducing public expenditure. States should avoid austerity measures and
public spending choices that would reverse progress on universal social protection and
delivery of public goods and services, undertaking such measures only when all alternative
resourcing options have been exhausted.
63.
States should prioritize the use of domestic resources for development over the
servicing of international debt.
64.
Governments should mobilize domestic resources for development by: retaining
State resources, including land; strengthening tax collection capabilities; implementing
fairer, more transparent and progressive tax policies; 4 countering corruption; asking the
private sector to pay its fair share; and ending illicit financial flows that direct resources out
of countries.
65.
In order to enhance accountability in the private sector, tax authorities should
publish the taxation rates and revenues generated by major economic actors. Fiscal
authorities should have a legal obligation to monitor the taxation of major economic
operators and publish accessible information in that regard.
66.
States should provide transparent access to information about public financing, tax
collection and oversight processes.
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OHCHR, “The right to development and taxation”.
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