Guidance for Responding to the Assessments
All questions in the data collection process are accompanied by guidance to help harmonize concepts, provide useful resources and potential data sources, and indicate which issues are monitored in the human rights norms and sustainable development goals. This is how it all comes together to support your work.
When you start the data collection you will notice that all questions are placed on the left side and there is additional text on the right side of the screen. The additional text on the right-side functions as metadata to support the data collection for the specific question. It includes:
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1. Guidance
It contextualizes the question and gives the background for why it is important to monitor that specific issue. It also explains how the user should fill out the Comment and Data Source boxes to substantiate their response.
Comment box
To strengthen your responses, you can register crucial observations that assist in a better understanding of your answer to the question. Use the Comments box to provide any further information or reflections that help qualify your response. In the piloting phase, you can also use this box to provide feedback on the questions or the metadata.
Data Source box
All questions must be substantiated by a reference to the data source. This is mandatory if you wish to publish the results of your data collection in the Data Repository, which will be available to the public in the final version of the tool. These references should be detailed enough to enable a reviewer or reader to find the specific document on which your response is based. For some questions, you might need to add multiples references if the data is a collection of information from different sources. Data sources should include details such as document name, numbering, date and weblinks. This can refer to, for example, legislation, decrees, policies, guidelines, resolutions, databases, news articles, reports etc.
Examples of Data Source:
Folketinget. The Constitutional Act of Denmark, 1953, § 7
2. Data Source
The tool offers links to potential data sources, including the types of public documents in which the data can be found.
You will work with different types of data depending on the assessment you choose. In the group assessments, it will mostly be administrative data from your organizations/group or from public institutions which are available in databases and reports.
In the national assessments, in addition to the administrative data, you will also work with qualitative data and will need to review documentation, laws, policies, administrative guidelines and other documents to collect data on the structural and process indicators.
In some contexts, much of the information will be accessible online. In other contexts, the data may require visits or request of access to information to the relevant public authorities.
3. Concepts
It outlines concepts which are relevant for harmonizing the way respondents understand specific terms in the question. The concepts are based on the human rights standards and guidance applicable for the question.
4. Useful Resources
It includes links to relevant resources which can be useful to support the implementation of the right monitored in the question and to raise awareness in advocacy efforts. These resources are also useful to build the capacity of users on the rights covered in the question.
5. What is monitored
The assessments are based on a framework of 73 indicators which contribute to the monitoring of a) the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, b) International Human Rights Law, c) the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
For every question you will find the respective human rights articles and SDG targets that is monitored by the question, as well as the text of the indicator from which the question was built.