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Tools in the context of human rights impact assessment (HRIA) are used in the implementation of a step or a number of steps in a HRIA instrument or a HRIA approach. HRIA instruments or approaches can be frameworks that as such may not provide enough guidance to carry out a HRIA. Thus various tools can be used to facilitate the implementation of the various steps of a HRIA instrument or HRIA approach. Thus, for example, the analysis of a human rights and political situation is an important step in HRIA instruments and approaches. The tool, Democratic Analytical Framework, can be used to make such an analysis.
Tools
Applying a Rights-Based Approach
This guide provides information on rights based approach (RBA) as well as practical guidelines on how an organisation can begin to use RBA in its work. view details >>Benchmarking human rights and democratic development within the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
Tool for evaluating progress in the fields of human rights and democratic development within the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. view details >>Budgeting for women's rights: Monitoring government budgets for compliance with CEDAW
Framework for monitoring compliance of government budgets with principles of women's rights. view details >>Business Guide for Conflict Impact Assessment and Risk Management
Guide that assists companies to develop conflict impact risk strategies. Includes a section on human rights impact assessment. view details >>Conflict-sensitive business practice: Guidance for extractive industries
Set of tools to help companies in extractive industries to make their business practices conflict-sensitive, including impact assessment tools. view details >>Country Risk Assessment
Designed to provide companies with an analysis of sensitive human rights issues in the country of operation, along with practical guidance on how to avoid engaging in human rights violations. view details >>Democratic Analytical Framework
Qualitative grid for democracy, based on a series of human rights criteria. view details >>Dignity counts - A guide to using budget analysis to advance human rights
Tool for using budget analysis to help assess governments' compliance with ESC rights. view details >>Freedom House Index
Well-known index in political science. Assigns degrees of freedom to countries through numerical ratings of political rights and civil liberties. view details >>Fulfilling reproductive rights for women affected by HIV/AIDS: A tool for monitoring progress toward three Millennium Development Goals
This monitoring tool includes human rights benchmarks on MDG 3, MDG 5 and MDG 6. view details >>Guide to Human Rights Impact Assessment and Management
This Guide provides a toolkit that can be used by business managers to identify, assess and implement responses to human rights challenges in new or evolving business projects view details >>Handbook in Human Rights Assessment
This tool can be used in development cooperation to identify whether a full-scale human rights impact assessment is needed. view details >>Hands-on PCIA: A Handbook for Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment
This handbook provides a user friendly manual containing quick check lists, examples, question-answer boxes and worksheets with the aim to measure peace and conflict impacts in a systematic way. 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 Quick Check
This is a quick check of the Human Rights Compliance Assessment tool for companies (HRCA). view details >>Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Tool for implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which provides a detailed analysis and checklist for each article of the Convention. view details >>Mapping political context - A toolkit for civil society organisations
Toolkit that civil society organisations can use to map political context, in order to devise more effective strategies to influence policies. view details >>Masizibheke:Let's look at ourselves
This self-assessment tool assists companies in South Africa in translating human rights into practice. view details >>Measuring economic and social human rights: government effort & achievement
Tool for measuring government respect for economic and social human rights, as distinct from the actual enjoyment of these rights. view details >>Measuring progress toward safety and justice: A global guide to the design of performance indicators across the justice sector
Elaborate tool for the design of performance indicators to measure progress toward safety and justice. view details >>Measuring the level, pattern and sequence of government respect for physical integrity rights
Measure of government respect for particular physical integrity rights (extrajudicial killings, disappearances, political imprisonment and torture). view details >>Monitoring housing rights - Developing a set of indicators to monitor the full and progressive realisation of the human right to adequate housing (in development)
Framework for the development of indicators for measuring the right to adequate housing, describing the process of identifying such indicators in detail. view details >>Positive women monitoring change: A monitoring tool on access to care, treatment and support and reproductive health rights and violence against women created by and for HIV positive women
This tool intends to explore the realities of women with HIV. The tool is intended for use by HIV positive women, and other actors working in the field of HIV and AIDS.
view details >>Results Framework
A Results Framework is a tool to assist with achieving and measuring specific objectives at the sector, country or regional level. view details >>The Assessment of the Right to Health and Health Care at the country level: A People's Health Movement Guide
This assessment guide has been developed to focus on government responsibilities concerning the right to health and health care. By using this guide, the status of the right to health and health care can be evaluated in a certain country. view details >>The Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Dataset
The Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Dataset contains standards-based quantitative information on government respect for 13 internationally recognized human rights. view details >>The logframe matrix
The logframe matrix is the product of the Logical Framework Analysis. It summarises what the project intends to do and how it intends to do this. view details >>Thesaurus of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Online tool that can be used to identify indicators for economic, social and cultural rights, but also to gather more information on economic, social and cultural rights. view details >>Using human rights for maternal and newborn health: a tool for strengthening laws, policies and standards of care (in development)
Government self-assessment tool. Includes participatory process in three phases and an instrument. view details >>