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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 doing right to health budget work PDF Print E-mail

 

A significant number of organizations in different countries work on health budgets with the goal of realizing people’s right to health.  Organizations that have used national, regional and international right to health standards in their analysis include:

 

  • Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT), which is involved in research, training, service and advocacy related to health in India.  CEHAT has a program on health services and financing, part of which focuses on establishing health as a human right.

  • Centre for Health and Social Justice (CHSJ) works with civil society and government in the formulation and implementation of health policies and programs in India.  CHSJ runs two right to health programs: one focuses on analyzing budget allocations for health services, the other involves community-based monitoring of health services within an accountability framework.

  • Fundar–Centro de Análisis e Investigación, which undertakes analysis of the government’s budget from a rights perspective.  One of the focuses of its work is health, with specific emphases on both maternal mortality and HIV/AIDS spending.  Fundar’s work related to maternal mortality is described, in part, in Dignity Counts(pp. 47-69)

  • Sonora Ciudadana is currently working on a project which seeks to eliminate discriminatory provisions from the public health system laws in Mexico.  Their focus is on ISSSTESON, the federal agency responsible for providing health services to public servants, which prevents individuals with preexisting conditions from accessing health care. The project involves community mobilizing, budget analysis, advocacy and strategic litigation. 

  • Treatment Action Campaign focuses on spending on anti-retroviral treatment (ART) for HIV/AIDS, and uses its findings in advocacy designed to increase spending for health care for those suffering from HIV/AIDS in South Africa.