Resources on budgetary monitoring for ESC Rights
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Budgeting Human Rights
Join the efforts to budget human rights- APRODEV Rights and Development Group. Editor: Niala Maharaj. Writing and research: Erica Wortel, Esther Miedema. Jan, 2007.
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Tips & Tricks on how to apply for the European Commission‘s Budget Lines for Sustainable Development, 6th edition
German Foundation for World Population (DSW) publication
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Promises to Keep: Using public budgets as a tool to advance economic, social and cultural rights
Workshop Report (Mexico 2002)
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Dignity Counts: A guide to using budget analysis to advance human rights
Fundar/International Budget Project/International Human Rights Internship Program (2004)
Step-by-step guide on how to use budget analysis as a tool to help assess a government‘s compliance with its ESC rights obligations. This is a case study of the right to health in Mexico.
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A guide for budget work for NGOs
International Budget Project (2001)
Pulls together helpful guidelines to budget work into one coherent document to offer a systematic overview of the different aspects of effective budget analysis, with an emphasis on the activities and approaches a NGO in its initial years of budget work.
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A rights based approach towards budget analysis
MS Dicko: International Human Rights Internship Program (1999)
Explores different human rights-based strategies towards budget analysis of economic, social and cultural rights.
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Gender Budget Initiatives: Strategies, concepts and experiences
UNIFEM (2002)
Brings together insights and analysis from an international conference on gender budget initiatives in Brussels in October 2001. It presents the collective experience, analysis and evaluation of participants from civil society, governments, and international organisations.
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Gender budgets make cents: Understanding gender responsive budgets
D. Elson Budlender et al: Commonwealth Secretariat (2001)
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Gender budgets make more cents: Country studies and good practices
D. Budlender and G. Hewitt: Commonwealth Secretariat (2002)
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The financial requirements of achieving gender equality and women's empowerment
C. Grown et al (2006)
This paper develops an estimate, based on country-level analysis, of the cost of interventions required to promote gender equality (MDG 3) and women's empowerment. It also estimates the share of all MDG investments that have the potential to improve outcomes for women and men, boys and girls. This analysis is followed by an operationalisation and methodology to estimate the cost of achieving the MDGs.
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Monitoring government budgets for compliance with CEDAW: Report highlights and key conclusions
D. Elson: UNIFEM (2005)
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What's behind the budget? Politics, rights and accountability in the budget process
A. Norton and D. Elson (2002)
This document provides an overview of some recent experiences with pro-poor and gender-sensitive budget initiatives in the economically developing world. It includes examples on research-based advocacy, participatory budget systems, implementing HRBD and transparency.
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Breathing life into democracy: The power of participatory budgeting
Oxfam (2005)
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Bringing budgets alive: Participatory budgeting in practice
Oxfam (2005)
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A guide to participatory budgeting
B. Wampler (2002)
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Websites
International Budget Project
The IBP builds civil society budget capacity, enhances participation and tries to combat poverty. Its website shows several case-studies of budget monitoring and provides a list of civil society budget groups all around the globe.
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ESCR-Net
The website of the International Network of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has a ESCR-budget analysis discussion group with around 200 participants.
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Gender Responsive Budget Initiatives
Women's Rights and Citizenship is a new project of the International Development Research Centre and discusses, amongst others, women and economic rights and empowerment.
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International Human Rights Internship Program
The website of IHRIP has a variety of sources and publications on ESC Rights and budget analysis.
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