E/C.12/2015/1 resources to social protection given that such allocations contribute to the realization of human rights and economic and social development. 14. The Committee recognizes the importance of the guiding principles established in ILO Recommendation No. 202 and highlights that the development of social protection floors should be based on a national consensus that requires all relevant stakeholders to participate in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the floors’ components. Regional and international organizations, including the international financial institutions, also have a role to play in promoting the conditions necessary for the sound implementation of social protection floors. 15. The Committee reiterates that adequate resources must be allocated at the national level and through international assistance and cooperation to comply with the obligation to progressively realize the rights enshrined in the Covenant. The creation of a global fund for social protection proposed by the Special Rapporteur on the right to food and the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, 3 and the inclusion of social protection among the key recommendations made by the High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda in its report A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development, is an important step in the right direction and could support initial investment in sustainable public social protection systems. 16. The Committee reiterates that, as stated by the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, the adoption of social protection floors and closely related initiatives taken within an overall human rights-based framework should become a central goal for all actors within the human rights and development contexts (see A/69/297, para. 6). 17. The Committee encourages all States to strengthen human rights principles and standards in the formulation of social protection floors, particularly the principles and standards on non-discrimination, participation and accountability, and to explicitly recognize the right to social security, guaranteeing legal entitlements to beneficiaries, who are thereby redefined as rights holders. It also encourages States to include social protection floors in the sustainable development goals as an important means of combatting poverty and discrimination and ensuring sustainable development beyond 2015, with a view to achieving the full realization of the rights enshrined in the Covenant 3 4 Olivier de Schutter and Magdalena Sepulveda, “Underwriting the poor: a global fund for social protection”, briefing note No. 7 (October 2012).