Module 4 – Developing the Monitoring Strategy

Developing the monitoring strategy

The nature of human rights monitoring will vary depending on your priorities, strategic goals and even the mandate of your organisation. All this will determine the methods of monitoring you will be using given your capacities and resources. This module will focus specifically on formulating a human right problem, setting strategic goals and monitoring objectives to ensure the development of an effective monitoring strategy.

Estimated time: 45m

• Video lecture

  Developing the monitoring strategy

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• 1 Quiz

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  1. How should we define the monitoring goal?

  A. It is necessary to define the monitoring goal as broad as possible

  B. It is necessary to define the monitoring goal as focused as possible

  C. It is necessary to examine and study as many materials as possible without setting a goal

  Correct! Wrong!

  2. How do the goal and objectives of monitoring relate?

  A. The goal should be narrower than objectives.

  B. The goal and objectives are not linked.

  C. The goal should be broader than objectives.

  Correct! Wrong!

  What version (A or B) of the problem definition is correct?

  A. Ensuring protection against violence and attacks of journalists and media representatives in the region ____ of the country ____

  B. Lack of protection against violence and attacks of journalists and media representatives in the region ____ of the country ____

  Correct! Wrong!

  4. How should we describe the problem we monitor?

  A. It is necessary to describe all the possible problems that we find during our monitoring exercise.

  B. It is necessary to describe a root cause of the problem.

  C. It is necessary to describe all the problems and all the root causes of the problems during monitoring exercise.

  Correct! Wrong!

  5. The following goal and objectives are formulated correctly: Goal: To promote government ratification of international treaties related to the right to a fair trial Objective 1: To study international human rights law that enshrines fair trial rights Objective 2:To study national legislation pertaining to the right to a fair trial

  A. True

  B. False

  Correct! Wrong!

  6. The recommendations in the monitoring report are mainly aimed at …

  A. Monitoring group members

  B. The whole society in general

  C. Representatives of the affected groups/ groups which rights were violated

  D. Partners of our organization

  E. Media and social networks

  F. State representatives

  Correct! Wrong!

• 1 Practice exercise

  Study this document on Developing a Human Rights Monitoring Strategy and start planning your own monitoring strategy on its basis.

  Good luck!