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Summary: The objective of this manual is to provide human rights workers with a set of tools by which to plan, monitor and evaluate human rights projects.
The objective of this manual is to provide human rights workers with a set of tools by which to plan, monitor and evaluate human rights projects. The manual contains three types of information: 1) a presentation and discussion of basic concepts concerning indicators as well as monitoring and evaluation, 2) suggestions for monitoring procedures at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, and 3) a discussion of relevant human rights indicators applicable to the design and implementation of human rights programmes and projects. While indicators can be used for different purposes such as assessing the human rights situation in a given country or for the purpose of diagnosing appropriate strategies, the purpose of this manual is mainly to discuss how indicators can be used to design and implement programmes and projects. Its purpose is therefore to provide methodological tools for the definition of human rights indicators, but also to inspire more consistent practices as regards assessment of the human rights impact of development programmes. As the manual will focus mainly on the planning and assessment of development programmes and projects, its operational departure will concentrate on indicators used in the context of logical framework planning. The manual places a certain emphasis on indicators as the manual project was originally defined as an indicator project. However, it should be stressed that indicators are only important if they are actually used - and that the use of indicators is one of the most important tools in planning, monitoring and evaluation practices. The manual is therefore not only presenting a set of indicators, but is also discussing the methodology of underpinning their use. Further information
Owner: Erik André Andersen and Hans-Otto Sanopdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/Danish_centre_indicators.pdf