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

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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

 

 



[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."