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Sano, Hans-Otto

Nordic Trust Fund, Knowledge and Learning Dept., World Bank
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Has worked in the World Bank since 2010, short term consultant 2006-09. Worked in the Danish Institute for Human Rights between 1997 and 2010, first as senior researcher and analyst, later as research director, and as acting director. Between 1994 and 1997 associate professor at University of Roskilde, Institute of Development Studies. Experience from field work in African and Asian countries, especially in rural areas. Published works have included work on livelihood strategies, food and agricultural policies, and human rights. Expertise on human rights indicators.

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    Human Rights Indicators in Development : An Introduction
    (World Bank, 2010) McInerney-Lankford, Siobhan; Sano, Hans-Otto
    Human rights indicators are central to the application of human rights standards in context and relate essentially to measuring human rights realization, both qualitatively and quantitatively. They offer an empirical or evidence-based dimension to the normative content of human rights legal obligations and provide a means of connecting those obligations with empirical data and evidence and, in this way, relate to human rights accountability and the enforcement of human rights obligations. Human rights indicators are important for both assessment and diagnostic purposes: the assessment function of human rights indicators relates to their use in monitoring accountability, effectiveness, and impact; the diagnostic purpose relates to measuring the current state of human rights implementation and enjoyment in a given context, whether regional, country-specific, or local. This paper offers a preliminary review of the foregoing in the development context and a general perspective on the significance of human rights indicators for development processes and outcomes. It is not intended to be prescriptive and does not provide specific operational recommendations on the use of human rights indicators in development projects. Nor does it advocate a particular approach or mode of integrating human rights in development or argue for a rights-based approach to development. This paper is designed to provide development practitioners with a preliminary view on the possible relevance, design, and use of human rights indicators in development policy and practice. It also introduces a basic conceptual framework about the relationship between rights and development, including in the World Bank context. It then moves to methodological approaches on human rights measurement, exploring in general terms different types of human rights indicators and their potential implications for development at three levels of convergence or integration. The paper therefore offers a theoretical introduction to a complex area of growing relevance in a number of areas of development that may be of interest to practitioners and scholars in a variety of institutional settings.