Policy analysis-related strategies to promote and protect ESC rights may include, for example, analyzing economic globalization pressures, structural adjustments and debt servicing and their effect on a country’s ability to implement ESC rights. At the national level, it makes good practice for human rights defenders to develop their own competencies to undertake review and analysis of policies and programs which may bear on the enjoyment of ESC rights. This approach is invaluable in any effort to monitor the progressive realization of ESC rights. A good resource for human rights defenders who are interested in using policy analysis is an article on Policy Work from Ripple in Still Water.

The following case summaries illustrate how human rights defenders have used policy analysis to protect and promote ESC rights:

• Project Stakeholders Oppose World Bank ESC Rights Violations
• Water Privateers Forced Out of Bolivia