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  • In 2011, Equal in Rights published “A Guide to Costing Human Rights” by Victor Steenbergen. This paper provides an overview of all the central concepts and definitions relevant for costing human rights policy.
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  • In 2011, Equal in Rights published “ Frontloading Human Rights: A Conceptual Framework for Building Budget and Realising rights” by Victor Steenbergen. This paper defines all the key concepts and provides an understanding of their relevance for Frontloading Human Rights.
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  • The International Human Rights Internship Program (IHRIP), in collaboration with the International Budget Partnership (IBP), implemented a ten-day West African Regional Learning Program on Human Rights Budget Work in Monrovia, Liberia from July 4th to July 13th, 2011.
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  • The Center for Women’s Global Leadership published its report on“Maximum Available Resources and Human Rights” in June 2011. This report examines a number of ways that governments can access financial resources in order to fulfill their obligation to use “maximum available resources” to realize ESC rights.
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  • “ No Protection for Children in the Budget 2011-2012” provides an analysis from a child rights’ perspective of the allocations for children (Budget for Children—BfC) in the 2011-12 Indian Union budget. 
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  • In December 2010, The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights in an article, "Austerity Budgets Will Cause Further Child Poverty", recently said that political priorities and budget allocations are the principal reasons for the large differences in child poverty rates among European countries, and between those countries in similar economic situations. 
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  • In mid-2009 the International Budget Partnership (IBP) released “It’s Our Money. Where’s It Gone?”, a documentary film on the work of one of its partners, MUHURI (Muslims for Human Rights).  MUHURI involves communities directly in monitoring expenditure of the government’s Constituency Development Fund (CDF) in Mombasa, Kenya.“
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  • In early 2010 IHRIP and the International Budget Partnership (IBP) produced “Reading the books: Government budgets and the right to education” that looks at elements of the right to education and where these might be found in a government’s budget; a government’s human rights obligations and questions these raise about a government’s budget; a process for using a rights framework to analyze a government’s education budget; and a short discussion of costing related to the right to education.
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Organizations involved in child rights budget work PDF Print E-mail

 

A large number of organizations are involved in work on children’s budgets. A few examples are:

  • HAQ: Centre for Child Rights (India) works for the recognition, promotion and protection of rights of all children. HAQ believes that child rights and children’s concerns have to be mainstreamed into all developmental planning and action, and must also become a core developmental indicator. One of the organization’s central areas of work is budget analysis.

  • Between 1996 and 2006, the Children's Budget Unit at Idasa conducted research and training on the South African government's commitment to children, with particular reference to Section 28 of the Bill of Rights of the South African Constitution. In addition, the CBU also supported the work of organized youth groups monitoring their local government budgets. Currently Idasa sponsors the Imali Ye Mwana (the children's money) network in the SADC region, which advocates for effective and efficient allocation and utilization of resources in state budgets to advance the rights of the child.

  • Rädda Barnen (Save the Children—Sweden) undertakes all of its work within the framework of the CRC.  In its work in Southern Africa and Latin America is supports child-focused budget work.