Indicators and data for human rights and sustainable development

National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) are crucial elements of the good governance and institutional accountability architecture that is necessary to achieve the SDGs and human rights. Given their mandate, NHRIs can play a significant role in international, regional and national monitoring of the 2030 Agenda. This includes the area of data and indicators. 

Bearing these challenges in mind, the Danish Institute for Human Rights, in collaboration with GANHRI, has developed new guidance for NHRIs. The guidance draws on experiences and lessons learned from NHRIs across the globe and identifies opportunities for using human rights standards and methods to improve official data, and bring other data sources to bear on monitoring of sustainable development and human rights. The publication illustrates how some of these challenges have been addressed, and opportunities seized, by NHRIs in practice.