Pilots

In the autumn of 2007, the APRODEV Rights and Development group agreed on a two-step process, consistent with suggestions for the way forward tabled at the close of the Geneva workshop, Budgeting the rights.

1. An exchange-session during the ESCR-Net General Assembly, to be held in Nairobi in December 2008, for those organisations interested in participating and contributing to the Budgeting for Human Rights pilot phase 2009-2010.This exchange aims to enable participants to work through some methodological challenges in budgeting human rights.

2. A series of pilots will be conducted to explore the process of determining the costs of realising human rights and including them in the national budget and policy cycle. India has strong possibilities as the first pilot. As an initial stage in this process, the APRODEV Rights and Development Group supported a workshop to bring together human rights and budget practitioners to share, analyse and strategise about possibilities with advancing their work.

To this end, from 28-30 May 2008 a workshop on 'Budgeting Human Rights' took place in Simla, Hamachal Pradesh, India, with a diverse group of experienced practitioners working on budgeting as a tool for advancing fulfilment of human rights.  it was a rich and exciting few days, which helped to bring out the diversity of work taking place and probe some critical questions in how to move forward to strengthen the work and its impact for human rights realisation. 19 proposals for future action emerged and organisers, the Human Rights Law Network and The Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, committed to taking up the immediate proposals for action and collaboration.
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