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"Introduction" [2019] ELECD 2925; in Linder, Barbara (ed), "Human Rights, Export Credits and Development Cooperation" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 1

Book Title: Human Rights, Export Credits and Development Cooperation

Editor(s): Linder, Barbara

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section Title: Introduction

Number of pages: 11

Extract:

Introduction
The call for human rights accountability in development cooperation has
become undeniable.1 Development is not a mere state affair but is equally
strongly driven by private actors.2 In 2017, the EU financing for
developing countries amounted to 74,477 million Euro of official devel-
opment assistance (ODA) and 80,185 Million Euro of private flows.3
The outcome document of the Rio + 20 Conference on Sustainable
Development clearly recognises that `the implementation of sustainable
development will depend on the active engagement of both the public
and the private sectors'.4 The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
calls upon `all businesses to apply their creativity and innovation to
solving sustainable development challenges [...] while protecting labour


1 See e.g., United Nations Development Group, The Human Rights Based
Approach to Development Cooperation: Towards a Common Understanding
Among UN Agencies (2003),
accessed 1 Feb 2018; Mac Darrow and Tomas Amparo, Power Capture and
Conflict: A Call for Human Rights Accountability in Development Cooperation,
Human Rights Quarterly, 27/2 (2005), lub.lu.se/openurl?sid=EBSCO%3aedsjsr&genre=article&issn=02750392&isbn=
&volume=27&issue=2&date=20050501&spage=471&pages=&title=Human+Rights
+Quarterly&atitle=Power%2c+Capture%2c+and+Conflict%3a+A+Call+for+Human
+Rights+Accountability+in+Development+Cooperation&btitle=Human+Rights+
Quarterly&jtitle=Human+Rights+Quarterly&series=&aulast=Mac+Darrow&id=
DOI%3a&site=ftf-live>, accessed 14 Jul 2018, 484­8; Andrea Cornwall ...