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(f)
Complement debt sustainability analyses with a view to integrating
human rights impacts and social sustainability in the assessment;
(g)
Provide guidance on and references to analytical approaches that could
make visible the potential impacts of reform measures and show how the burden of
adjustment is shared across different income quintiles, gender, age and different
social groups, including the most marginalized;
(h)
Ensure that the assessment of human rights impacts is based on
qualitative and quantitative data, disaggregated by gender, disability, age group,
region, ethnicity and any other relevant grounds, based on a contextual, country-level
appreciation of groups at risk of marginalization;
(i)
Provide specific guidance for carrying out cumulative, rights-based
impact assessments of various reforms measures that are often implemented in
parallel as part of fiscal consolidation packages, such as taxation and public
expenditure reform, so that the fuller impact on rights holders and particular groups
at risk can be assessed;
(j)
Set out an international standard and framework for conducting human
rights impact assessments of economic reform policies that can be adjusted to the
particular needs of government departments, advisory bodies, parliamentary
committees, national human rights institutions, international financial institutions,
international human rights mechanisms, academic institutions or civil society
organizations;
(k)
Include suggestions on how to integrate human rights impact
assessments into existing assessment methodologies that governments, international
financial institutions and other bodies may already be using;
(l)
Consider the best way to carry out a human rights impact assessment in
order to ensure that the results can effectively inform policy decisions, while at the
same time address the independence and credibility of the assessment undertaken;
(m)
Establish the criteria to be met by the assessment team;
(n)
Provide guidance on how to ensure the meaningful participation of all
relevant stakeholders and affected individuals and groups, including women, children,
the elderly, persons with disability, migrants, minorities and other groups at risk of
vulnerability, such as indigenous peoples, refugees and internally displaced persons;
(o)
Set out the standards for transparency and accountability when carrying
out the impact assessment and for the publication and reporting of information and
the assessment;
(p)
Recommend that human rights impact assessments be instituted and
carried out regularly, before, during and after the implementation of economic
reforms that may have the potential to cause significant adverse human rights
impacts, and facilitate States’ reporting obligations to the Committee on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights.
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