What's the Goal? What's the Purpose? Observations on Human Rights Impact Assessment

This paper provides an introdution in human rights impact assessment. It particularly addresses the use of indicators in human rights impact assessment. It also gives an overview of challenges in human rights impact assessment.


Andreassen, Bard Anders; Sano, Hans-Otto

2004, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Oslo [Norway]

Pages: 1-24


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This paper was prepared for NORAD’s Technical Division, Oslo, and submitted in June 2003. The paper summarizes lessons learnt during two workshops jointly organised in January 2003 by NORAD and the two Pakistani human rights organisations, Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) and Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP). The discussions during these two workshops helped to draw conclusions and formulate recommendations presented in the paper.

ISBN 82-90851-64-2

ISSN 1503-1349

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Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Analytical Challenges of Human Rights Impact Assessment
  3. The Purpose of Human Rights Impact Assessment
  4. Limitations
  5. Defining Goals and Objectives
  6. The Problem of Attribution
  7. Indicators and Project Logic
  8. Concluding Remarks
  9. References

What's the Goal? What's the Purpose? Observations on Human Rights Impact Assessment

Andreassen, Bard Anders; Sano, Hans-Otto

2004, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights: Oslo [Norway]

Contained in: Research Notes, Pages: 1-24

This paper provides an introdution in human rights impact assessment. It particularly addresses the use of indicators in human rights impact assessment. It also gives an overview of challenges in human rights impact assessment.



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EnglishPDF documentclick here to view/download

ISBN 82-90851-64-2

ISSN 1503-1349


Bibliographic notes

This paper was prepared for NORAD’s Technical Division, Oslo, and submitted in June 2003. The paper summarizes lessons learnt during two workshops jointly organised in January 2003 by NORAD and the two Pakistani human rights organisations, Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) and Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP). The discussions during these two workshops helped to draw conclusions and formulate recommendations presented in the paper.