A/HRC/31/31 rights priorities and concerns and to ensure integration of human rights principles into the second five-year National Development Plan.38 49. Some measurement methodologies focus on the negative impacts of laws, policies, programmes and development projects on the realization of rights. By providing facts and figures, these measurements help to identify and/or quantify negative effects on individuals and communities and argue in favour of changing State actions. 50. In the development context, a number of methodologies can be of particular importance. Human rights impact assessments, for example, are tools “for examining policies, legislation, programmes and projects and measuring their impact on human rights”.39 These assessments analyse the impact of an intervention on the human rights of a population, generally through indicators and other data analysis. Similarly, in the case of business activities, some research shows that companies generally do not identify, understand or aggregate the full range of costs associated with disagreement and conflict with host communities. Quantification methods have shown the financial costs of these situations for companies and States.40 51. Eviction impact assessments can be a powerful tool for evaluating the real costs of some projects. In many cases, calculation of the loss of income and assets for the community resulting from eviction is far beyond what was foreseen in the relocation plan. For instance, in May 2002, the inhabitants of a number of communities living on the riverside in Surabaya, Indonesia, were threatened with eviction by the municipal government. With the help of non-governmental organizations, the community gathered information on losses in social assets, economic assets and physical assets. The assessment showed an estimated loss of 238-286 billion Indonesian rupiah versus the 40 billion rupiah the government budget had allocated for relocation. In addition: The study found that these were well established communities with high levels of investment in their own housing and facilities; high levels of capital accumulation and circulation of money from informal economic activities in the settlements; and relatively acceptable levels of access to infrastructure and services, with the exception of drainage, adequate sanitation and paved roads.41 This information argued in favour of abandoning plans for relocating the communities and instead embarking on a process of renovation, which in turn positively impacted their economic, social and cultural rights.42 VII. Right to information and transparency at all stages of the process, including timeliness, dissemination, availability and accessibility 52. Measurement models should provide transparent and available information on the definitions, methodology, rationale, methods of computation, data sources, disaggregation levels, periodicity and limitations used. 38 39 40 41 42 See Uganda Vision 2040, p. 108. Available at http://npa.ug/uganda-vision-2040/. Nordic Trust Fund and World Bank, Human Rights Impact Assessments: A Review of the Literature, Difference with Other Forms of Assessment and Relevance for Development (2013), p. ix. See Rachel Davis and Daniel M. Franks, “Costs of company-community conflict in the extractive sector”, Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative Report No. 66 (Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard Kennedy School, 2014). See OHCHR and UN-Habitat, “Losing your home: assessing the impact of eviction” (2011), p. 45. Ibid., sect. 3.5.2. 15