Chapter 3 | Page 126 calculate and estimate the level of achievement of substantive ESC rights, reflected by key socio-economic indicators, as against the resources of the State.116 As the body responsible for monitoring State compliance with ESC rights obligations, the ESCR Committee has, on many occasions, identified specific areas where it feels the State needs to increase and prioritise resource allocation. For example, rights relating to children’s welfare, particularly with regard to exploitation, child labour, trafficking, poverty and malnutrition, were identified as areas in which States must increase their resource allocation.117 In specific cases, the Committee has also called upon States to increase the ‘resources allocated to reducing unemployment rate’,118 and expressed its dissatisfaction about the lack of resources allocated for education and the deterioration of educational facilities and materials.119 The need to increase resources allocated for education targeted towards quality improvement, reducing dropouts, reducing gender disparity, and enhanced human rights education has been highlighted in many other reports.120 The shortage of resources in the education sector and the weakening of educational standards were identified in the case of Azerbaijan in 1997.121 The Committee also recommended that, given the limited available resources,122 States take measures to concentrate on other priority areas such 116 Randolph and Guyer, above n 117 For example, CESCR, Concluding observations: Bolivia, E/C.12/1/Add.60 (21 May 2001); CESCR, Concluding observations: Jamaica, E/C.12/JAM/CO/3-4 (10 June 2013); CESCR, Concluding observations: Indonesia, E/C.12/IDN/CO/1 (19 June 2014). 118 CESCR, Concluding observations: Slovakia, E/C.12/1/Add.81 (19 December 2002), [24]. 119 CESCR, Concluding observations: Congo, E/C.12/1/Add.45 (23 May 2000), [23]. 120 For example, CESCR, Concluding observations: Togo, E/C.12/TGO/CO/1 (3 June 2013), [34]; CESCR, Concluding Observations: Latvia, E/C.12/LVA/CO/1 (7 January 2008), [55]; CESCR, Concluding observations: Gabon, E/C.12/GAB/CO/1 (27 December 2013), [30]. 121 CESCR, Concluding observations: Azerbaijan, E/C.12/1/Add.20 (22 December 1997), [25]. 122 CESCR, Concluding observations: Georgia, E/C.12/1/Add.42 (17 May 2000), [26].

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