Resources for human rights professionals
Resources for human rights professionals |
| OHCHR: Training Manual on Human Rights Monitoring - http://www.ohchr.org/english/about/publications/training.htm A very complete manual on monitoring, starts with a basic intro to human rights, then a section on monitoring, then a series of sections for monitoring in particular areas: IDPs, children, places of detention, elections, trials, demonstrations, armed conflict, ESC rights. Aimed primarily for OHCHR field staff, but useful to all. See item 7. - [Read more] |
| An Introduction to Advocacy: TRAINING GUIDE - http://pdf.dec.org/pdf_docs/PNABZ919.pdf The famous manual by Ritu R. Sharma. Takes you through the whole process, from defining policy issues onwards to setting advocacy objectives. 137 pages. Download it here! - [Read more] |
| Helsinki: Monitoring Human Rights - http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display_doc.php?url=http://www.hfhrpol.waw.pl/en/index_pliki/Monitoring_eng.pdf&external=N Excellent manual and well structured manual with lots of examples taken from the Eastern European context. A very practical focus: start by setting realistic objectives, choose a feasible methodology, etc - this one is based on hard-won experience. Take us through a variety of monitornig methods: trial monitoring, focus groups, interviews, etc. Even explains how to make a plan of action, and a budget for your monitoring project. Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Warsaw, 2001 - [Read more] |
| Human Rights Defender Manual: human rights monitoring - http://beta.austlii.edu.au/au/other/HRLRes/2001/16/ The advantage of this tool is that its very concise: a summary of other manuals such as those produced by HURIDOCS. By Carol Devine & Victoria Coakley. - [Read more] |
| Fund Raising Realities and Strategies: Lessons Learnt at the NGO Cafe - http://www.gdrc.org/ngo/funding/cafe-strategies.html This pages tackles some common problems you will face in fundraising, and offers a strategy for each one. Lets hope your competitors have not read this yet. - [Read more] |
| Advocacy Impact Assessment Guidelines - http://www.comminit.com/evaluations/ma2006/materials-2668.html Offers a number of useful indicators for measuring impact of your advocacy work. By Megan Lloyd Laney, 2003. - [Read more] |
| What's Behind the Budget? Politics, Rights and Accountability in the Budget Process - http://www.odi.org.uk/pppg/publications/books/budget.pdf Politics, rights and accountability in the budget process. Andy Norton and Diane Elson. Overseas Development Institute, June 2002. - [Read more] |
| Networking for Policy Change: An Advocacy Training Manual by POLICY - http://www.policyproject.com/pubs/advocacy/English/Introduction.pdf The manual is organized around a well-developed model—tested over time and within diverse cultures for accomplishing advocacy objectives. The building blocks of advocacy are the formation of networks, the identification of political opportunities, and the organization of campaigns. The manual includes a section on each of these building blocks. Each section contains background notes, learning objectives and handouts. POLICY, 1999. - [Read more] |
| Civicus Toolkit: Writing a Funding Proposal - http://www.civicus.org/new/civicus_toolkit_project.asp?c=036FB9 Part of a very good series of guides, by Civicus. - [Read more] |
| HURIDOCS tools collection - http://www.huridocs.org/tools/violations A number of useful manuals on monitoring, fact-finding and documentation, from the specialists in this area - all on one convenient page. - [Read more] |
| Cape Town Principles - Prevention of recruitement, demobilization, reintegration - http://www.unicef.org/emerg/files/Cape_Town_Principles(1).pdf Adopted by the participants in the Symposium on the Prevention of Recruitment of Children into the Armed Forces and Demobilization and Social Reintegration of Child Soldiers in Africa, organized by UNICEF in cooperation with the NGO Sub-group of the NGO Working Group on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Cape Town, 30 April 1997. - [Read more] |
| Ukweli handbooks: Monitoring and Documenting Human Rights Violations in Africa - http://www.amnesty.nl/in_actie_vervolg/spa_downloads A really outstanding manual on documenting human rights violations, with additional manuals on political killings, torture, sexual violence, excessive use of force, abuse during armed conflict. Very simple and practical, with examples of forms - a fanstastic resource for field workers and will no doubt be one of the few handbooks you reach for again and again. Available in several languages. By Amnesty Netherlands Special Program on Africa. - [Read more] |
| New Tactics in Human Rights - http://www.newtactics.org/main.php The New Tactics in Human Rights Project, led by a diverse group of international organizations and practitioners, promotes tactical innovation and strategic thinking within the international human rights community. Some great ideas in here!!! Well worth browsing for inspiration. - [Read more] |
| International Human Rights Funders Group (IHRFG) - http://www.hrfunders.org/funders/index.html Great database of human rights funders. - [Read more] |
| The VSO Fundraising Manual - http://catalogue.vsoint.org/datastore/Docs/Misc/fundraising_guide_NGO.pdf Written by Jane Bradshaw, this excellent 30 page manual covers non-institutional fundraising: raising money from the public, from businesses, trusts... - [Read more] |
| Who did what to whom? - http://shr.aaas.org/www/contents.html A key text which explains how to design a human rights information system. Written by Patrick Ball,while he was at AAAS.org. - [Read more] |
| HREA.org study guide: The United Nations Human Rights System - http://www.hrea.org/learn/guides/UN.html Good overview of the UN human rights system. A good place to start off. - [Read more] |
| Amnesty International campaigning manual - http://web.amnesty.org/pages/campaigning-manual-eng If your strategy involved alerting the general public through a campaign, you will find this A-to-Z guidebook extremely useful. - [Read more] |
| Grant-writing: the Nonprofit Guides - http://www.npguides.org/index.html You project proposal was rejected again... don't bang your head against the wall in despair! Rather turn to these pages and get insight on how to improve. You will find concise pages of tips and also well-executed examples to inspire you. - [Read more] |
| NGO Manager's protection planning tool selection - http://www.ngomanager.org/dcd/3_Performance_Management/Planning/ NGO Manager's selection of generic planning tools, such as logical frameworks, which can also be useful for protection planning. - [Read more] |
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