UN Housing Rights Programme

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UNITED NATIONS HOUSING RIGHTS PROGRAMME (UNHRP) A
joint initiative by UN-HABITAT and OHCHR
Housing Rights Indicators Establishing a
global system for monitoring and evaluation on
progress of the realisation of the right to
adequate housing Selman Ergüden Head, Shelter
Branch UN-HABITAT selman.erguden_at_unhabitat.org
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What is the UNHRP? (1)

• Objective To assist States and other
  stakeholders with the implementation of their
  commitments in the Habitat Agenda to ensure the
  full and progressive realization of the right to
  adequate housing as provided for in international
  instruments
• Rights-based approach to housing
• Empower the poor and the vulnerable
• Combat and eradicate homelessness
• Improve security of tenure
• Strengthen protection against forced evictions
  and discrimination in the housing sector
• Facilitate restitution in cases of violations of
  housing rights
• Promote equal access to housing resources
• 6 Programme Areas
• Advocacy, outreach and learning from partners
• Support for UN human rights mechanism
• Monitoring and evaluation on progress of
  realisation on housing rights
• Research and analysis on housing rights
• Capacity-building and technical cooperation

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UNHRP Report Series
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Current Focus Global mechanism for measuring
the progressive realisation of housing rights

• Objective
• Provide information on the state of housing
  conditions around the world and in individual
  countries for
• International human rights monitoring bodies
  (CESCR, UNCERD, etc.) to measure State party
  compliance with the respective Covenants /
  Conventions
• States as part of their own national monitoring
  system
• Housing rights advocates and experts

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Review of progress

• 2002 Study commissioned by the UNHRP on the
  development of a set of housing rights indicators
  (HRIs)
• ? List of 52 potential HRIs
• 2003 UNHRP Background paper for EGM
• ? 17 preliminary HRIs
• EGM on Housing Rights Indicators (Geneva)
• ? 15 specific HRIs recommended for further
  consideration
• 2004-2006 Continued analysis of each individual
  HRI within UNHRP in consultation with UN-HABITAT
  Global Urban Observatory
• ? Consolidation to a set of 12 HRIs
  Questionnaire

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Planned operationalisation

• Modalities for data collection
• Sources (data already collected)
• Centralised approach (UNHRP, CESCR)
• Questionnaire
• Periodicity of State reporting
• Data analysis
• Evaluation of indicators
• Dissemination
• Preparation of a HRI Report

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• Thank you
• For more information on the
• UNITED NATIONS HOUSING RIGHTS PROGRAMME (UNHRP)
• www.unhabitat.org
• Housing.Policy_at_unhabitat.org