Tools and Guides
Eviction Impact Assessment Tool
Provider: HLRN
This tool calculates the material and non-material losses incurred by communities before, during, and after eviction. The tool can be applied to avoid evictions or to enable just rehabilitation or compensation. It accounts for the different impact of evictions on women, children, elderly and marginalized groups.
Guide to Legal Observing of Forced Evictions
Provider: The University of Essex
This resources was created in 2011.
Human Rights and Democracy Assessment Tool
Provider: Oxfam
This tool guides the user through assessment, report compilation, case management and financial planning tools necessary for an assessment of human rights impact. It is designed for use by local communities, municipalities, civil society groups, unions and small businesses.
IASC Operational Guidelines on the Protection of Persons in Situations of Natural Disaster
Provider: Brookings-Bern Project
Guidelines for a human rights based approach to natural disaster management and aid. Outlines the specific human rights most commonly put at risk by natural disasters and the obligations of states to displaced peoples.
IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix
Provider: IOM
The matrix is a tool to capture, process and disseminate complex information about the impact of a crisis, including the migration, vulnerabilities and needs of affected populations. It has been used in conflict and climate-related disasters in 16 countries.
Protecting Internally Displaced Persons: A Manual for Law and Policy Makers
Provider: Brookings-LSE Project
Guidance for governments seeking to draft domestic legislation addressing displacement. Focused on the content of legislation, drawing on the UN.
The piece was created in 2008.
Community Guide to the ABD Involuntary Resettlement Safeguards
Provider: Bridges Across Borders
The guide serves as a popular education resource for communities facing displacement, particularly due to Asian Development Bank (ADB) projects. The ADB updated its Involuntary Resettlement Safeguard Policy in 2009. The key aims of this policy are to avoid and minimize displacement and to ensure that no one is made worse off as a result of a project funded by the ADB.
Forced Evictions Assessment Questionnaire
Provider: UN-OHCHR
The “Forced Evictions Assessment Questionnaire” is intended to serve as a guidance tool for addressing situations of forced evictions by: a) contextualizing events; b) assessing the existence and the type of human rights violations that are foreseen or on-going; c) offering practical advice to all parties; and d) helping to monitor and report on the situation.
Handbook for the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons
Provider: Global Protection Cluster
This extensive handbook offers information on national and international legal frameworks for IDP protections. Revelant sections include shelter, livelihoods, land and property among others. It offers guidance of methodology, monitoring, advocacy, legal assistance, and information dissemination.
IASC Framework on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons
Provider: Brookings-Bern Project
Addresses durable solutions following conflict and natural disasters. It describes human rights-based principles that should guide the search for solutions and establishes the criteria that determine to what extent a durable solution has been achieved. The Framework also offers examples of indicators that, if properly adapted to the local context, can inform efforts to monitor progress towards durable solutions.
Implementing Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative for Impact
Provider: World Bank
This handbook offers a range of best practices for stakeholders impacted or involved with extractive industries to better enforce transparency and monitor impact. It is designed to be a platform for general reform as well as a tool to address sector-specific governance.
National Instruments on Internal Displacement
Provider: Brookings-LSE Project
This guide outlines a process for developing human-rights based laws, policies and strategies at the national level. While the primary focus is on the process of instrument development, the guide also compiles other legal materials and ideas for the content of the instruments.