Part III Human rights education in practice
When developing indicators, the following three check points may be useful.
QUESTION 1:
Can the evidence collected be attributed to the education programme or activity?
Be careful that you are measuring only those things that are in the activity or
programme.
QUESTION 2:
Is reliable information available or able to be collected?
Ensure that you can source information that will accurately indicate whether the
outcome has been reached.
QUESTION 3:
If measuring change, does baseline data exist?
It is not possible to measure a change in any situation if you don’t know how it was
before the education activity or programme. The situation analysis if carried out
effectively will give you this data.
Once the outcomes and indicators are developed in this planning stage, they will be used for monitoring
progress during implementation and evaluating what has been achieved at the end of the programme
activity. Chapters 7 and 8 discuss this further.
Milestones
Human rights education activity that is implemented over an extended period of time may also include
“milestones”. Milestones are markers in time. They say what will be achieved by the activity, by a certain
time. An example of how to use milestones is included in the case study below.111 Here the National
Human Rights Commission of Korea held an outreach tour for migrant workers at the Ansan Foreign
Residents Center. In this example, the milestones relate to the outcomes that were established during
the planning stage of the project.
NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF KOREA: OUTREACH TOUR FOR
MIGRANT WORKERS AT THE ANSAN FOREIGN RESIDENTS CENTER
Outcome sought:
• To provide advice on human rights and labour laws and regulations relating
to migrant workers and members of their families.
• To collect information collected during the tour to be used for policy
review and research in order to understand and improve the human rights
situation of migrant workers in the country.
Milestone indicators:
• By [short-term date]: [Number] public meetings held involving lawyers, labour
attorneys and public servants from the Immigration Office and the Ministry
of Employment and Labour; [number] of people attended the meetings.
• By [medium-term date]: Information collected from the tour presented in
a report to the Immigration Office and the Ministry of Employment and
Labour.
• By [long-term date]: Information from the review incorporated into
government policy.
More information is available at www.asiapacificforum.net/news/south-koreaoutreach-tour-targets-migrant-workers.
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With thanks to the National Human Rights Commission of Korea for this case study. Note that the milestones were not provided
by the Commission but have been developed to illustrate this point in the Manual.
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