Numerous resources have been developed to support work on the right to education, others focus on education budgets.  The following are particularly valuable, complementary, resources for work that puts the two together—right to education budget work:

• Reading the books: Governments' budgets and the right to education (2010) is a 28-page booklet setting out a process for using a human rights framework to assess a government’s education budget.  The booklet, produced by IHRIP and the International Budget Partnership (IBP), 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.

• The Right to Education Project, a collaborative initiative of ActionAid, Amnesty International and the Global Campaign for Education, hosts an extensive web site with information on the right to education, including national and international standards, how to identify violations of the right, work done around the world on the right to education, and so on. 

The Commonwealth Education Fund has developed a set of easy-to-read materials on education budgets.  They include:

• A Budget Guide for Civil Society Organisations Working in Education, which provides CSOs in the education sector with basic information they need to get started on budget work—core concepts relating to budgets and ways of analyzing them, as well as explanations and examples of how budget work can inform strategic advocacy messages.

• Making the Budget Work for Education: Experiences, achievements and lessons learned from civil society budget work in Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi and Uganda.

ActionAid and Education International,  Toolkit on Education Financing, which provides basic information on what organizations need to know about education financing, including key issues facing education systems, key issues in education financing, frequently asked questions on education financing, how to develop a campaign on education financing, and how to build a national evidence base.

ActionAid explores the role of international financial institutions, particularly the International Monetary Fund, is constraining governments in realizing their obligations related to the right to education by setting caps on government wage bills in Confronting the Contradictions: The IMF, wage bill caps and the case for teachers.

Rights or Privileges? Fiscal Commitment to the Rights to Health, Education and Food in Guatemala (2009) produced by the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), in collaboration with its partner organization in Guatemala, the Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Fiscales (ICEFI). The report focuses on the government’s poor performance in guaranteeing basic levels of economic and social rights for its population.  It argues that the lack of political will by democratic governments in  Guatemala to invest in realizing these rights, using the maximum resources available in the most equitable way, is the underlying reason behind the non-realization of economic and social rights.