Many organizations and individuals are also working on developing new methodologies for monitoring human rights.
Health
- AAAS (2004) The Right to Health, Aresource manual for NGOs (PDF download)
- Hall, Sarah (2005), Neonatal Mortalityin Developing Countries: What can we learn from DHS data,Southsampton Statistical Science Research Institute, Working Paper A05/02,University of Southsampton.
- Maine, Debora and Yamin, Alicia (1999) "MaternalMortality as a Human Rights Issue: Measuring Compliance with InternationalTreaty Obligations' Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 3
- International Federation of Health and HumanRights Organisations (IFHHRO) (2009) "The UNSpecial Rapporteur on the Right to Health: A Guide for Civil Society". www.ifhhro.org
- WHO (2007) ???Women???shealth and human rights: Monitoring the implementation of CEDAW???
- Economic andSocial Commission for the Asia Pacific (2003) ???Handbook on Reproductive Health Indicators???Special Rapporteuron Health, 'Report to the Commission on Human Rights' (Main focus: A humanrights-based approach to health indicators) E/CN.4/2006/48
Budget Analysis
- Centeron Budget Policy and Priorities (2001) "AGuide to Budget Work for NGOs"
- New Tactics in Human Rights.(2004) "UsingGovernment Budgets as a Monitoring Tool: The Children???s Budget Unit in SouthAfrica"
- Socorro, Maria 1999. "ARights-Based Approach to Budget Analysis".International Human Rights Internship Program
- Fundar ??? Centro de An??lisis e Investigaci??n, the International BudgetProject and the International Human Rights Internship Program (2004) ???DignityCounts: A guide to using budget analysis to advance human rights???
- QUB Budget Analysis Project (2010) ???Budgetingfor Economic and Social Rights: A Human Rights Framework???
Education
- UNESCO (2004) Manualon Rights-based education (PDF download)
- Right to Education Project (2009) ???Rightto Education Indicator based on the 4A framework: Concept Paper???
- Kalantry, Sital, Getgen, Jocelyn, E., & ArriggKoh, Steven (2010) ???Enhancing Enforcement of Economic, Social, and CulturalRights Using Indicators: A Focus on the Right to Education in the ICESCR??? Human Rights Quarterly, 32, 2, pp. 253-310
Food and Water
- FAO (2008) Methodsto monitor the human right to adequate food FIAN/AAAS(2004) TheRight to Food, A resource manual for NGOs
- Toma??evski, K. (ed.) (1987) The Right to Food:Guide through Applicable International Law. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
- Heinrich B??ll Foundation, Bread for the Worldand the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) (2005) ???MonitoringImplementation of the Right to Water: A Framework for Developing Indicators???
- WHO & UNICEF (2006) ???Core Questionson Drinking-water and Sanitation for Household Surveys???.
Housing
- UN-Habitat (2003) Monitoringhousing rights, Developing a set of indicators to monitor the full andprogressive realisation of the human right to adequate housing.Working paper No. 1.
- Housing and Land Rights Network / HabitatInternational Coalition. Methodologyfor Monitoring the Human Right to Adequate Housing: TheToolkit.
Treaty Monitoring
- Alston, Philip and James Crawford (eds). TheFuture of UN Human Rights Treaty Monitoring: Cambridge, Cambridge UniversityPress, 2000.
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights(Organization of American States). "Guidelinesfor Preparation of Progress Indicators in the Area of Economic, Social andCultural Rights". En espa??ol: "Lineamientos para laelaboraci??n de indicadores de progreso en materia de derechos econ??micos,sociales y culturales".
- UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Reportof the High Commissioner for Human Rights on implementation of economic, socialand cultural rights. July 2009Riedel, Eibe. "TheIBSA Procedure as a Tool of Human Rights Monitoring" and ???Indicators???Benchmarks ??? Scoping ??? Assessment: Background Paper???
- OHCHR (2008) ???Reporton Indicators for Promoting and monitoring the Implementation of Human Rights???(HRI/MC/2008/3)
- OHCHR, ???Report on Indicators for MonitoringCompliance with International Human Rights Instruments??? (HRI/MC/2006/7)
Quantitative Methods and Datasets
- Toronto Initiative for Economic and SocialRights. TIER Dataseton constitutional status of economic and social rights in developing countries.
- The Economic and Social Rights EmpowermentInitiative. SERF Index: AnIndex of Economic and Social Rights Ful???llment
- McInerney-Lankford, S. A., Sano, H.-O., &World Bank. (2010). Humanrights indicators in development: An introduction.
- UNDP (2000) HumanDevelopment Report: Human rights and human development.
- Landman, T., & Carvalho, E. (2010).Measuring human rights. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge
Theory and Academic
- Chapman, Audrey (1996) 'A"Violations Approach"for Monitoring the International Covenant on Economic, Social and CulturalRights' HumanRights Quarterly, Vol. 18, Number 1, pp. 23-66
- Felner, Eitan (2009) ???Closingthe ???Escape Hatch???: a Toolkit to Monitor the Progressive Realization ofEconomic, Social and Cultural Rights,???Journal of Human Rights Practice, 1(3): 402-435.
- Rosga, AnnJanette, & Satterthwaite,Margaret. L. (2009) ???TheTrust in Indicators: Measuring Human Rights???, BerkeleyJournal of International Law, Vol. 27, Number 2, pp. 253-315
- Robertson, Robert E. (1994. ???MeasuringState Compliance with the Obligation to Devote the `Maximum AvailableResources?? to Realizing Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights???. Human Rights Quarterly, 16, 4,693-714.
- Green, Maria (2001) ???What We Talk About WhenWe Talk About Indicators: Current Approaches to Human Rights Measurement??? Human Rights Quarterly, 23, 4, pp. 1062-1097.
- Welling, Bronwyn Anne Judith (January 01,2008) ???International Indicators and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights??? Human Rights Quarterly, 30, 4, pp. 933-958.
Organizations and Initiatives
MeasuringAccess to Justice Project is a research and development projectwith a primary goal to develop a standard methodology for measuring the costsand quality that users of justice may expect on the most common paths tojustice. Access to justice is measured through three indicators - costs,quality of the procedure and quality of the outcome. These indicators aremeasured from the perspective of the users of justice.
InternationalBudget Project was formed within the Center on Budgetand Policy Priorities to collaborate with civil society organizations indeveloping countries to analyze, monitor, and influence government budgetprocesses, institutions, and outcomes. The aim of the Partnership is to makebudget systems more responsive to the needs of poor and low-income people insociety and, accordingly, to make these systems more transparent andaccountable to the public.
HURIDOCS aninternational NGO based in Geneva helping human rights organizations useinformation technologies and documentation methods for their advocacywork. They have created several manuals for guidance, including ???What ismonitoring??? and ???Promoting and defending economic, social and cultural rights :a handbook???.
HakiZetu: ESC Rights in Practice wascreated by the Special Programme on Africa by the Dutch section of AmnestyInternational aimed at helping African NGO, CBOs, civil society organizationsand local communities realize their economic, social and cultural rights. The series consists of four handbookson ESCR, including a main book, the right to adequate housing, the right toadequate food and the right to adequate water and sanitation.