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Toward Accountability for Resources: Independent Budget Monitoring of the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health Commitments

May 19, 2011

The International Budget Partnership, in collaboration with the Maternal Health Task Force, produced this paper as part of the Ask Your Government! Initiative. It provides an overview of how civil

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Reviving Hopes. Realizing Rights. A Report on the First Phase of Community Monitoring under NRHM

Feb 24, 2011

The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) was launched in 2005 to improve the delivery of health services and provide universal access to health care in rural areas in India. To

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Dignity Counts: A Guide to Using Budget Analysis to Advance Human Rights

Dec 19, 2004

The guide provides guidance to civil society organizations and others on how to use budget analysis as a tool to help assess government’s compliance with its ESC rights obligations.

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Judicial Reviews: An Innovative Mechanism to Enforce Human Rights in Latin America

Feb 18, 2014

This report focuses on three successful cases from Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico, where the judiciary made innovative rulings to restore and enforce the right to education, to an adequate

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Article 2 and Governments’ Budgets

Jul 09, 2014

Governments’ budgets are fundamentally about people’s human rights. Budgets are the central means by which governments can help realize their people’s access to quality education, decent health

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Human Rights in Budget Monitoring, Analysis, and Advocacy Training Guide

Mar 15, 2010

This guide has been developed in response to a demand for practical tools to empower civil society and build state institutional capacity in public policy and budget monitoring, and aims

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Monitoring Government Policies: A toolkit for civil society organizations in Africa

Jun 19, 2005

The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD), Christian Aid, and Trócaire started the toolkit project to assist partner organizations in holding their governments to account for the consequences of their

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Do Kenyans Have A Shared Understanding of Fairness? Results From A National Survey

Dec 21, 2016

December 2016 | by Jason Lakin, Ph.D., IBP Kenya

Since 2010, Kenya has confronted a number of policy decisions related to how to share resources, including the revenue sharing formula

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kenyans understanding of fairness

Budget Analysis as Social Audit: Tamilnadu Experiences 1996-2000

Jun 19, 2000

¿Cómo Observamos los Derechos Humanos en el Presupuesto?

Jan 30, 2014

This citizens’ manual, published by IBP’s Ecuadorian partner Grupo FARO, illustrates how to use a human rights approach in budget analysis.

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