Defending Dignity A Manual for National Human Rights Institutions on Monitoring Economic, Social and Cultural Rights QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION The aim of this exercise is to help you think about the recommendations that your NHRI has made in previous monitoring reports. 1. Find an example of a recommendation in a previous monitoring report that: • Compares well to the SMART criteria. What is good around it? • Compares poorly to the SMART criteria. How could it be improved? REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING This chapter is based on Haki Zetu – Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Practice: Main Book [Part II: Working with economic, social and cultural rights], published by Amnesty International in 2010. The following references are also recommended for further reading: CESR (2012), The OPERA Framework: Assessing compliance with the obligation to fulfil economic, social and cultural rights [Step 4 – Assessment: Understanding constraints before assessing compliance] CESR (2012), Assessing fiscal policies from a human rights perspective: Methodological case study on the use of available resources to realize economic, social and cultural rights in Guatemala Rights and Democracy (2011), Getting it Right: Human Rights Impact Assessment Guide [Phase E: Analysis and Report], available at: http://hria.equalit.ie/en/index.html 144