The Budgeting for Human Rights Initiative Phase 2

Following on from the workshop organised by the APRODEV Rights and Development Group in April 2006 and with the support of the APRODEV agencies, Equalinrights has since institutionalised Phase 2 of the Budgeting for Human Rights Initiative and is in the process of initiating a 2-year pilot process (2009-2010) with the focus on costing and frontloading human rights in national budgets. 

In this context, Equalinrights seeks to  exchange and learn from experiences in developing indicators, methodologies and strategies with the aim of formulating a methodology for costing rights in order to develop an ‘advocacy tool’ for budgets and/or human rights organisations.

To this end, Phase 2 activities have been organised along the lines of the following four pillars:

I. Pilots with partners

Pilot groups from different countries and regions will come together twice (2009 and  2010)  to exchange results and discuss strategies in order to work on methodology-development, compare, reflect on and explore ways to strengthen practices and optimise results

If you are interested in a piloting a costing human rights project in your particular context, then we would like to hear from you: contact Cornelieke Keizer - keizer@equalinright.org

II. Academic development of conceptual thinking

Parallel to and intertwining with the pilots with partners will be the development of the academic pillar to clarify and sharpen the conceptual thinking on costing and frontloading. Ideally, the development of conceptual thinking will be based on the practices of the pilots and vice versa. The intention is to analyse, share and foster dialogue on case studies of the process with a view to evolving standards, indicators, policy analysis and costing methodologies etc. 

III. Documentation of resources 

New resources - academic research/papers, relevant articles/publications and publications from practitioners - will continually be provided on EiR’s Budgeting HR web portal. Use will also be made of such online Web 2.0 tools as Wikis and Dgroups to document learning and practices. Equalinrights has created the Budgeting for Human Rights Wiki as a collaborative platform for sharing experiences, learnings and resources. It has also set up the Budgeting Rights Dgroup to provide an interactive discussion forum. Additionally, there is a Resources and links page on our website as also in this wiki for accessing available literature as also some of the main organisations working in this domain. Click on the following links to access the relevant pages:

Equalinrights Budgeting Rights portal

Budgeting Rights Dgroup

Resources and Links

IV. Case documentation  

Provision and development of real-life case-studies - a body of practices to draw upon and synthesise guidelines for optimal use.

If you are interested in looking more deeply into the issues of budgeting economic, social and cultural human rights and at the attendant challenges and opportunities, then please contact us: budgetingrights@dgroups.org or Cornelieke Keizer. Join us in exploring the ways in which we can cost and budget human rights. We are convinced this will strengthen human rights campaigns and advocacy and help fulfil them.

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