Dignity counts: a guide to using budget analysis to advance human rights

Dignity Counts is a response to the bubbling up of interest in – indeed, enthusiasm about – the potential usefulness of budget analysis as a tool (or strategy) to protect and promote the enjoyment of human rights in general, and economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights in particular. It is built around a “real life” case study developed by staff at Fundar, with the assistance of other organisations in Mexico. The case study provides concrete evidence that budget analysis can be a very powerful tool for helping to assess a government’s compliance with its ESC rights obligations and for highlighting specific actions that can be taken to remedy non-compliance.
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