IHRIP's work

As human rights groups around the world become increasingly active on economic and social rights, they are exploring methods for monitoring governments’ compliance with these rights that go beyond traditional monitoring and documentation methodologies.  Of particular interest to many groups are budget analysis and other forms of work that assess how much and how effectively a government’s budget helps realize economic and social rights.     

For more than 30 years IHRIP has been committed to supporting the work of human rights groups in countries of the global South as well as CIS countries. Over these same years IHRIP’s work has evolved to respond to the ever-expanding work, interests and needs of human rights groups.   For the past 15 years IHRIP has provided particular support to work on economic, social and cultural rights.  In the past seven years, as demand for information and training on budet analysis and other forms of budget work has grown, IHRIP’s own work has increasingly focused on these tools for monitoring and assessing governments’ compliance with their rights obligations—particularly related to economic and social rights, but other rights as well.  Human rights budget analysis is a relatively new area of work for human rights groups, and in its initiatives, IHRIP has sought to

-          Clarify how budgets and human rights are related, and how budget work and human rights work can be integrated; and

-          Develop resources for and support the interest of civil society groups in human rights budget work.

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