Nomogaia have developed a methodology to examine the elements of a capital project that could directly harm or improve the status of human rights listed in international rights declarations. It is intended for companies that are not familiar with viewing projects from a human rights perspective, and as such begins with an introduction to human rights impact assessment, corporate responsibility for human rights, and sources of human rights. It describes three types of HRIAs - Desktop, Rapid Response and Comprehensive. Each type suits a different type of needs and conditions, with the Desktop most beholden to temporal and financial constraints. Comprehensive, on the other hand, is most advisable for long-term, high impact projects in socialy, environmentally, politically or economically volatile contexts.

The methodology begins with a description of starting tools to look at presumptive catalog elements and lists of impacted rights, stakeholders and special topics. It consists of 12 steps, grouped into three phases; Phase I covers the gathering of basic information and the preparation of "preliminary" lists of rights, rightsholders and special topics. Phase II uses the presumptive impacted rights and rightsholder lists to obtain information guided by topic catalogs. Phase III is the finalising phase and it covers the preparation of the final lists of impacted rights and rightsholders. As the final step, assessors rate the anticipated rights impacts on a five-grade scale: red to blue, with red being the most negatively affected and blue the most positively affected.

The methodology is publicly available at the Source below. Nomogaia welcome comments, criticisms, and council to improve the methodology, and they encourage others to test the methodology for themselves.