Projected Impact of CESR’s New Approach for Economic and Social Rights Advocacy
Once developed, tested and refined, CESR's innovative approach should have a multiplier effect well beyond the organization’s own work. For example:
- Local and international NGOs could adapt it for monitoring and advocacy on a range of issues.
- The UN Committee on Economic and Social Rights and other UN treaty bodies could use it to promote more substantive dialogue with countries that claim to have inadequate resources to address an issue.
- Public interest legal advocates could make use of this sophisticated methodology in national and regional courts to enforce economic and social rights.
- The methodology could make a real contribution to the global debate around the Millennium Development Goals, by enabling advocates to identify cases in which governments fail to attain the goals through mis-allocation of resources.
A New Approach to Monitoring and Advocating for Economic and Social Rights
