1. Member States and the Executive Secretariat shall endeavour to adopt at national and
regional levels, practical modalities for the enforcement of the rule of law, human rights, justice
and good governance.
2. Member States shall ensure accountability, professionalism, transparency, and expertise in the
public and private sectors.
Article 35
1. Member States shall establish independent national institutions to promote and protect human
rights.
2. The Executive Secretariat shall take measures to strengthen their capacities. The institutions
shall be organized into a regional network. Within the framework of this network, each national
institution shall systematically submit to the Executive Secretariat, any report on human rights
violations observed on its territory. Such reports and reactions of governments shall be widely
disseminated through the most appropriate means.
Article 36
Member States shall institutionalize a national mediation system.
Article 37
1. Each Member State shall work towards ensuring pluralism of the information sector and the
development of the media.
2. Each Member State may give financial assistance to privately-owned media. The distribution
and allocation of such assistance shall be done by an Independent national body or by a body
freely instituted by the journalists Themselves.
Article 38
1. Member States undertake to fight corruption and manage their national resources in a
transparent manner, ensuring that they are equitably distributed.
2. In this regard, Member States and the Executive Secretariat undertake to establish
appropriate mechanisms to address issues of corruption within the Member States and at the
Community level.
Article 39
Protocol A/P1/7/91 adopted in Abuja on 6 July 1991 relating to the Community Court of Justice,
shall be reviewed so as to give the Court the power to hear, inter-alia, cases relating to
violations of human rights, after all attempts to resolve the matter at the national level have
failed.
Chapter II
MODALITIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION AND SANCTIONS
Article 44
1. This Article complements the provisions of Chapter V of the Protocol of 10th December 1999 .
2. In order to give full force to the provision of Article 28 of this Supplementary Protocol and in
accordance with Article 57 of the Treaty, a legal convention Incorporating, if need be, Convention
A/P1/7/91 relating to mutual assistance In criminal matters, and the Convention A/P1/8/94 on
Extradition shall be Elaborated and adopted not later than twelve months after the entry into
force Of this Supplementary Protocol.
Article 45