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Key Links and Resources for Monitoring ESC Rights

Many organizations and individuals are also working on developing new methodologies for monitoring human rights.

Health

Budget Analysis

Education

Food and Water

Housing

Treaty Monitoring

Quantitative Methods and Datasets

Theory and Academic

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.