Translation Spanish: Summary Mapping of Methodologies

The following table provides a summary of key papers and literature that set out tools and methodologies for assessing or monitoring public policies from a human rights perspective. These are divided as follows:

Conceptual frameworks on how to integrate human rights into public policies - The papers summarized here do not offer specific tools or methodologies, but rather offer conceptual frameworks on how to integrate human rights into public policies - including PRSPs and the MDGs.

Frameworks for how to identify indicators for human rights assessment - Monitoring public policies requires choosing specific indicators so that progress in the human rights situation can be measured. These papers offer insights into how to choose indicators, and about different types of indicators that are important from a human rights perspective. These also include ideas on how to identify benchmarks from a human rights perspective.

Impact assessment methodologies for ex-ante assessment of potential impacts on HR - The papers summarized here offer methodologies and insights into how to carry out an ex-ante impact assessment on the potential impacts of government policies on human rights. This contrasts with the methodologies in the next section, which offer an ex-post analysis.

Methodologies for ex-post assessment of public policies from an HR perspective - The papers summarized here offer detailed ex-post methodologies aimed at assessing public policies from a human rights perspective, showing how to make a human rights argument for the denial or lack of fulfillment of human rights, with a specific focus on economic and social rights. These methodologies measure and monitor the extent of compliance with human rights standards.

Methodologies for ongoing monitoring of public policies from an HR perspective - The papers summarized here offer specific methodologies and insights into rights-based and rights-focused monitoring methodologies. These two papers are both focused on the right to food, but the tools offered can be extended to other rights.