Contents Acknowledgements ii Foreword iii List of abbreviations iv Introduction for users 1 Part I Defining the issues to be monitored 5 Chapter 1: Poverty, development and human rights: Making the connections 6 Chapter 2: Economic, social and cultural rights standards 17 Chapter 3: Monitoring the fulfilment of economic, social and cultural rights 31 Chapter 4: Working with indicators and benchmarks 43 Part II Part III Part IV Collecting and analysing data 53 Chapter 5: The role of data in monitoring economic, social and cultural rights 54 Chapter 6: Finding secondary data 59 Chapter 7: Collecting primary data 71 Chapter 8: Analysing data: A short introduction to working with spreadsheets 83 Assessing resources 97 Chapter 9: 98 Evaluating resources Chapter 10: Analysing public budgets 103 Chapter 11: Analysing resource mobilization 111 Chapter 12: Auditing public spending 119 Communicating findings 129 Chapter 13: Evaluating contextual factors 130 Chapter 14: Drawing conclusions and making concrete recommendations 137 Chapter 15: Data and design: Communicating through visualization 145 Chapter 16: Reporting, advocacy and follow up 154 Summary 165 Exercise answers 169 i