AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program

Budget Analysis

Human Rights Budget Analysis involves interpreting and analyzing government budgets and expenditures through a human rights lens, giving users a tool with which to monitor their governments' commitment to and progress in meeting their human rights obligations. By endowing communities with the skills and information they need to advocate on their own behalf, and by directing attention toward the state, the locus of human rights responsibility, budget analysis becomes a promising tool for human rights work.

Moreover, Human Rights Budget Analysis stimulates greater public engagement in human rights and their realization by informing and supporting the public’s demands for good governance and accountability. SHRP will enlist social scientists – economists, statisticians, sociologists, and political scientists – in efforts to improve and strengthen this relatively new tool.

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(site updated 12/27/2007)