HLRC Housing and Land Rights Monitoring Tool Kit
	Entitlement	Source	Overriding principles	Guarantee	Threats, obstacles	Victimization vulnerability	Impact, consequences	Duty holder	Action, intervention[1]	Evaluation and follow-up
	Security of tenure & freedom from dispossession Public goods & services Environmental goods & services (land & water) Affordability Habitability Accessibility (physical) Location Cultural appropriateness __________ Information, education, capacity building Participation & 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	International: Ratifications of international and regional human rights instruments National: Constitution, national legislation, regulations, municipal ordinances. Policies Programs Projects Institutions[2] Budgets	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)	(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."