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Toolset: Dignity counts - A guide to using budget analysis to advance human rights

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This guide - which has been developed by Fundar, the International Human Rights Internship Program and the International Budget Project - presents a tool for using budget analysis to help assess a government's compliance with its human rights obligations, in particular with regard to economic, social and cultural rights. It is meant to provide guidance to human rights workers as well as to those involved in applied budget work.

This step-by-step tool allows for analysing national budgets in order to assess governments' compliance with their obligations related to specific human rights. A case study is included in which the Mexican government's budget is assessed in relation to the right to health.

Bibliographic Details

Author: Fundar; International Budget Project; International Human Rights Internship Program

Publisher: (2003) Fundar; International Budget Project; International Human Rights Internship Program: exico City [Mexico]; Washington DC [US]


Thematic Areas

Right to Health

HRIA Eight Step Approach

The Eight Step Approach is a comprehensive HRIA framework that provides a cyclic approach to policy development and project management. This toolset covers the following steps:

STEP 7: Monitoring

Online Source(s)

Where possible, links are provided here to the original publication sources. Click on Source Title to open the document, but please note that this redirects you to a different website.

Language Format Source Title
English PDF document Dignity counts
Spanish PDF document Las cuentas de la dignidad

Other Related Publications

Norton, Andy; Elson, Diane (2002) What's behind the Budget? Politics, Rights and Accountability in the Budget Process

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