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An instrument as used in the context of this resource centre refers to a specific framework for the implementation of a human rights impact assessment (HRIA). Instruments define the steps that need to be taken, the sequence in which they are taken and the tools that should be used. As such instruments provide a more specific framework for HRIA than approaches.
Instruments
Advocacy Impact Assessment Guidelines
Framework for assessing the impact of advocacy interventions by NGOs. view details >>CARE Impact Guidelines (in development)
Methodology for impact measurement of CARE projects. view details >>Children's rights impact assessment: the SCCYP model
Instrument for children's rights impact assessment, containing an initial screening assessment and an eight-stage full impact assessment. view details >>Common Country Assessment and United Nations Development Assistance Framework: Guidelines for UN Country Teams
Instrument for strategic planning meant for UN country teams to come to a unified approach towards common development goals, including elements of the rights-based approach. view details >>Conflict-sensitive approach to project finance
Presents elements towards a conflict-sensitive approach. Includes enhanced due diligence through, amongst others, integration of human rights impact assessment. view details >>Health Rights of Women Assessment Instrument (HeRWAI)
The Health Rights of Women Assessment Instrument (HeRWAI) is a strategic tool to enhance lobbying activities for better implementation of women's health rights.
view details >>Human Rights Compliance Assessment Tool for Companies
The Human Rights Compliance Assessment can be used by companies to check the impact of their own policy and practice on human rights. view details >>Human Rights Impact Assessment for Investment Projects (in development)
Goal is to develop a HRIA for use by policy makers and communities to increase accountability and ensure that investment and project financing do not undermine international human rights law and norms. view details >>Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA) Handbook
Nine-step framework for Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment in development, including various impact assessment tools. view details >>Risk, responsibility and human rights: taking a rights-based approach to trade and project finance (in development)
Draft framework for human rights impact assessment for public international financial institutions. The framework is based upon best practices and covers the entire project cycle. view details >>Strategic Programme Impact Framework
SPIF is an operational Theory of Change approach to identify outcomes and impacts in an area of intervention where a programme or project operates and to serve as the basis for strategic planning around the Theory of Change. view details >>