Frontloading Human Rights: A Conceptual Framework for Building Budgets and Realising Rights


Author Victor Steenbergen
Publisher Equalinrights
Year 2011
Format PDF
Theme Human Rights General
Source Equalinrights
Description New tools and methods have been developed to assist organisations in holding governments accountable for budgetary human rights obligations. This paper introduces frontloading human rights as a method that helps organisations claim human rights by identifying how much money a government should allocate to advance necessary laws and policies to realize human rights. This paper aims to define frontloading human rights through an overview of existing methods and steps needed to draft human rights budget proposals, and to provide an understanding of key concepts relevant to frontloading rights such as: • Human rights and international human rights obligations • The human rights-based approach • The government budget-process and its relation to human rights realisation • The importance for civil society to engage in human rights budgeting The paper is intended as a resource guide providing a review of background literature on budgeting for human rights in relation to frontloading human rights, and as such, should not be seen as an operational guide for directly implementing a frontloading exercise.
 
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