Quantifying the impact of gender and human rights programmes

This short technical brief is a couple of years old, but I think it is very relevant for our group on human rights, SDGs and Development.

The brief explores some of the main challenges in measuring and quantifying the impact of both the human rights context (laws, policies, social norms and practices...) and human rights interventions (human rights-based programmes) in development. It focuses mostly on the quantification of the positive impact of human rights and gender programmes and interventions on the response to HIV and AIDS. But much of what is in there applies to most other aspects of health and development.

Difficulties of providing evidence of the impact of human rights programmes in the broader context of deployment help explain in part relatively low investment in human rights interventions in development.

The paper intends to help foster a dialogue about how best to capture and articulate the impact of the human rights and gender interventions in development.

The current policy landscape provided by attention to rights, non-discrimination and equality under the new Sustainable Development Goals should help in this regard.

All the best

Enrique Restoy