At the interface of rights, ethics and economics, Budgeting human rights essentially means including perspectives and costs of realising human rights in the budget cycle. This includes: strategy development; planning and budget allocation; and spending and auditing. Human rights also need to be included in national policy development.

Equalinrights is currently involved in the Budgeting for Human Rights Initiative - Phase 2 and hosts a Budgeting Human Rights Portal, an initiative of the APRODEV Rights and Development Group. Read more in Aprodev's guide Budgeting Human Rights.

What has been your experience using Budgeting as a tool for realising human rights?

What methodologies have you used to quantify the cost of realising human rights?

Are these methodologies implementable?

If you are interested in costing and frontloading human rights in budgets, defining the core content of rights and developing tools and human-rights-based indicators and advocacy strategies, then subscribe to this wiki and share your thoughts and experience.

and/or 

Join the Budgeting Rights Dgroup - a discussion and planning platform for organisations working on the second phase of the Budgeting Human Rights project (2009-2010) as well as interested third parties.

Some useful links and resources are available on the 'Budgeting for Human Rights - Resources' page. Help us pool resources - share your information with us!

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