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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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In-person learning (training) programs PDF Print E-mail

A number of organizations sponsor learning programs on budget analysis and other types of budget work that are of a few days to a couple of weeks in length.  These types of programs can provide a solid introduction to different types of budget work as well as helpful answers to basis questions that organizations have when they begin or as they do budget work.  Here is information about a few such programs:

  • The International Budget Partnership (IBP) sponsors a range of learning programs on applied budget work:

    • an introductory program of a few days’ length about applied budget work—what it is, who does it and what it can achieve;

    • an intermediate program, which focuses on the basis tools used in budget analysis as well as considerations of when and how to use them. The course also has a strong component on budget advocacy;

    • a newly-developed program on expenditure tracking, which introduces participants to a range of tools used by groups in countries around the world to involve communities and local organizations in monitoring government expenditure and using the results of the monitoring in budget advocacy;

    • specially-designed learning programs on different types of budget work, such as work on health budgets.

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  • Through its Africa Budget Project (ABP), Idasa (South Africa) helps build the capacity in civil society and legislatures to participate effectively in budgetary processes in African countries. As part of the Project, Idasa sponsors learning programs in different countries in Africa on applied budget work.