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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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Learning is a life-long process.  This is true not just for individuals, but for organizations as well, and groups interested in or already involved in human rights budget work are no exception.  Simply knowing about what has been possible and has been achieved in other countries can be inspiring, and can encourage groups to improve their own work and take on new challenges.  For examples of human rights budget work that is currently being done in different countries, click on the middle tab, above.     

This page introduces a range of other resources for groups who want to learn more and/or take their human rights budget work to a new level.  Click on the menu to the left to get to more information on:

  • Print and video resources on human rights budget work.   The books, manuals or videos mentioned are useful in providing a solid introduction to human rights budget work, or to a specific topic within that work.

  • In-person learning programs.  A few organizations sponsor learning programs on human rights budget work, or aspects of that work.  These programs are a good complement to the printed resources, because most provide participants with opportunities to practice aspects of human rights budget work.

  • Organization-to-organization exchanges for the purpose of learning more, first-hand, about human rights budget work. Given the “on the job” quality of these exchanges, they promise greater in-depth skill development than either printed resources or learning programs can. 

  • International NGOs assisting the development of human rights budget work.  Occasionally organizations encounter particular challenges in their work for which a focused intervention by organizations or individuals with greater experience in specific aspects of the work can make a big difference.  Some of these organizations, working internationally, have a specific mandate to do that.