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.

The 28-page booklet was developed primarily for human rights groups who focus on education, to assist them in adding budget work to their research and advocacy tools, and for applied budget groups concerned about education budgets and interested in using a human rights framework in that work.