HRIA Consultancy
A Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) provides a methodology that guides an analysis on whether a policy and its implementation is in line with human rights obligations. Developing a Human Rights Impact Assessment Instrument that reflects the relevant issues and questions and that is user friendly, is a challenge.
We have personal experience with the development of Human Rights Impacts Assessment Instruments. We know what the important steps are to consider in the development process and can bring these strengths to the work of any organization or institution who wants to develop a HRIA.
In the past, we have developed, tried and tested methodologies and instruments to help guide the development process. We have carried out these activities worldwide and with very different participant groups, ranging from grassroots organizations to human rights experts.
Given our experience in developing tools and process facilitation we now offer support and methodology to other organisations wishing to embark on the road to developing a Human Rights Impact Assessment Instrument.
Rights for Change (R4C)
Rights for change (R4C) works to actively advance human rights and gender justice. We do this by enabling organisations, institutions and individuals to strategically integrate human rights into their current work.
R4C builds on the work of Aim for human rights. Aim for human rights and its partners around the world worked to ensure that human rights would be respected, protected and fulfilled. R4C is an initiative of two former employees of Aim for human rights and two independent consultants, who were closely connected to Aim, to secure and continue its work.
R4C aims to:
· promote knowledge on and use of human rights impact assessment methodologies, among others through our Resource Center;
· spread and facilitate the use of the human rights impact assessment tools developed by Aim for human rights on health rights of women, domestic violence and trafficking in human beings;
· (help) develop new human rights impact assessment methodologies in other areas;
· provide knowledge on human rights, in particular women’s rights, to organisations, institutions and individuals in close cooperation with relevant stakeholders;
· engage actively with human rights debates and provide input from the perspective of human rights impact assessments.
See for more information the R4C brochure.
Interested in discussing the process of developing a HRIA?
If so, contact: info(at)humanrightsimpact.org