(ii) Provide sufficient funds for African human rights institutions to enable them to effectively fulfil
their mandate;
(iii) Establish the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights without further delay;
(iv) Urge member states that have not done so to ratify the Protocol to the African Charter on Human
and Peoples’ Rights on the Establishment of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and to
make the necessary declaration under article 34(6) of the Protocol;
(v) Establish the Human Rights Fund as recommended by the First AU Ministerial Conference on
Human Rights held in Kigali, Rwanda, in May 2003;
(vi) Strengthen the Secretariat to enhance the functioning of the African Commission;
(vii) Urge the AU Peace and Security Council to adopt urgent measures to address the conflicts in
Africa in order to create a conducive environment for the respect of economic, social and cultural
rights;
(viii) Call upon the organs of the AU to encourage member states to uphold economic, social and
cultural rights and to hold them accountable for violations of economic, social and cultural rights;
(ix) Integrate the monitoring of economic, social and cultural rights into the work of relevant AU
institutions as well as the CSSDCA Peer Review Mechanism and New Partnership for Africa’s
Development (NEPAD) African Peer Review Mechanism process;
(x) Follow up recommendations of the African Commission to ensure implementation of its decisions
by member states.
(c) The African Commission should:
(i) Elaborate principles and guidelines on economic, social and cultural rights and establish a working
group for this purpose;
(ii) Integrate economic, social and cultural rights into the mandates of existing Special Rapporteurs
and Working Groups;
(iii) Urge states to duly submit their reports to the African Commission under article 62 of the African
Charter;
(iv) Address economic, social and cultural rights during the examination of State Reports under article
62 during questions and concluding observations;
(v) Review its guidelines for state reporting pertaining to economic, social and cultural rights;
(vi) Consider alternative means of examining implementation of provisions of the Charter by a state
that is in perpetual default of its reporting obligations under article 62 of the Charter.
(vii) Provide substantive recommendations to the AU Assembly on economic, social and cultural
rights;
(viii) Undertake studies and research under article 45 on specific economic, social and cultural rights;