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The Article 2 Project
This booklet is part of the Article 2 & Governments’ Budgets handbook. The
handbook has been developed by the Article 2 Project, a working group housed
first at the Partnership Initiative of the International Budget Partnership (IBP),
and then at the Global Movement for Budget Transparency, Accountability and
Participation. The project aims to enhance understanding of the implications of
article 2 of the ICESCR for how governments should develop their budgets, raise
revenue and undertake expenditures. The project encourages the use by civil
society and governments of the legal provisions of article 2 to monitor and analyze
governments’ budgets. Download the complete handbook at:
www.internationalbudget.org/publications/ESCRArticle2.
The case study in this booklet is derived from Participation and the Practice of
Rights (PPR), “A Human Rights Budget Analysis of the Northern Ireland Housing
Executive’s current plans to clad the Seven Towers Flats” (June 2011), available
at: http://issuu.com/ppr-org/docs/a_human_rights_budget_analysis_report_on_
nihe_s_pl, and “Papering over the Cracks,” available at http://rightsni.org/2011/09/
papering-over-the-cracks/
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� uthors: Ann Blyberg and Helena Hofbauer
February 2014