8 28. Moreover, consequent with the foregoing criteria, the Court also verified that the decision made during the administrative proceedings did not include another type of damage that the Court has considered must be compensated; namely, indirect damage. it therefore ordered compensatory damages to compensate that harm (para. 247), without limiting itself to what had been established in the domestic sphere. IV. Interaction between the Inter-American Court and the domestic courts: seeking to improve the protection of rights in the domestic sphere 29. The effective respect and guarantee of human rights depends, above all, on the will and action of the States; consequently, it is an obligation of the States to be the initial mechanism for the protection of human rights. As founders and actors of the inter-American system for the protection of human rights, the States have the obligation to ensure the implementation at the domestic level of the international norms of protection. After all, the daily effectiveness of the rights established under the system depends on this. 30. In this context, the domestic courts are called on to play a crucial role, because they are one of the principle vehicles for the State to be able to convert the obligations contained in the international human rights treaties into domestic law, by applying them in their jurisprudence and daily proceedings.24 Evidently, not only must they guarantee rights by ensuring the effectiveness of domestic judicial remedies, but they must also put in practice the binding decisions of the Inter-American Court that interpret and define the international laws and standards for the protection of human rights.25 31. The active participation of the domestic courts in guaranteeing human rights creates a favorable environment for reinforcing their capacity to use procedures and criteria that are increasingly in conformity with international laws and standards for human rights protection, and this ensures the enhanced implementation of those laws and standards at the domestic level. 32. Consequently, one of the main purposes of the interaction between the international and national bodies of laws is to improve the national protection systems. This encourages the national jurisdictional organs to deal with violations of rights and to do whatever is possible to repair them, if they occur. “In the international guarantee there is a general interest, in addition to a merely subjective one, to foster the effectiveness of the State system. International protection should not act as a substitute for domestic protection; its function is to complete and promote the latter’s increased effectiveness.”26 33. The highest courts of Latin America have been nourishing themselves from the Court’s case law in a process that can be referred to as the “nationalization” of 24 GARCÍA-SAYÁN, Diego, “Una Viva Interacción: Corte Interamericana y Tribunales Internos”, in The InterAmerican Court de Derechos Humanos: Un Cuarto de Siglo: 1979-2004, Corte Interamericana of Human Rights, San José, Costa Rica, 2005, p. 330. 25 GARCÍA-SAYÁN, Diego, “Una Viva Interacción: Corte Interamericana y Tribunales Internos”, op. cit., p. 330, and Diego García-Sayán “Justicia interamericana and tribunales nacionales”, op. cit., p. 379. 26 PEREZ TREMPS, Pablo, “Las garantías constitucionales y la jurisdicción internacional en la protección de los derechos fundamentales”, in Anuario de la Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Extremadura, No. 10, 1992, p. 81.