HLRC Housing and Land Rights Monitoring Tool Kit
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Entitlement |
Source |
Overriding principles |
Guarantee |
Threats, obstacles |
Victimization vulnerability |
Impact, consequences |
Duty holder |
Action, intervention[1] |
Evaluation and follow-up |
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Security of tenure & freedom from dispossession Public goods & services Environmental goods & services (land & water) Affordability Habitability Accessibility (physical) Location Cultural appropriateness __________ Information, education, capacity buildingParticipation & self-expression Resettlement, movement, return Security (physical) & privacy |
International customary law
Human rights & other treaty law
Regional human rights instruments
Emerging norms |
Self-determination:
Nondiscrimin-ation
Gender equality
Rule of law
Nonretrogression/ nonregressivity
International cooperation
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International: Ratifications of international and regional human rights instruments
National: Constitution, national legislation, regulations, municipal ordinances.
Policies
Programs
Projects
Institutions[2]
Budgets
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No law
Bad law
Inadequate enforcement
Globalization pressures
Privatization of services
Armed conflict
Natural disaster
Racism
Traditional practices
Corruption |
Who?Identify vulnerable and affected groups
What type? Characterize the nature events
Why? Determine the cause(s)
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(See Loss Matrix tool for method of quantifying costs)
Material (victims):
Nonmaterial (victims):
Material (others):
Nonmaterial (others): |
Responsible parties:
Primary: State authorities
To avoid depriving To protect from deprivation To aid the deprived
Secondary: IFIs
MNCs
Local authorities
Private agents
Community |
Strategic Planning
(See Strategic Action & Solution Menu of > 60 options with “subtools” by category)
Take Action: Litigation Alternative finance Human rights education Gender training Legal education Social mobilization Cooperation with UN bodies Media work Etc. |
Evaluating the action: 1. Monitoring progress 2. Indicators of accomplishment 3. Assess impact
Following up the situation: 1. Assessing results for affected persons 2. Strategic planning to determine next actions
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[1] What, by whom & when. See "Task Chart."
[2] Bonding and bridging institutions. "Institutions," in this sense, involve the rules of the game under which formal and informal activity is conducted, and include public institutions, private institutions, collective practices and norms, as well as changing norms (e.g., brought about through the youth, technology, economic or demographic shifts, and other emerging behaviours). According to Douglas North, Nobel laureate, institutions are "humanly devised constraints that shape human interaction."