The Measurement & Human Rights Program at the Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy seeks to bring evidence-based policy to human rights work. The program aims to frame the discussion on the role of systematic assessment techniques in human rights work by addressing some of the most basic and yet most difficult questions in the field:

• Is it possible to measure the scope of the problems human rights organizations work to solve?

• How can we track the impact of human rights efforts?

Our constituents in this project are the people near and far who can not enjoy their human rights fully. We hope this work will contribute to the development of more systemic, high leverage solutions.

Linking Research and Policy-Making in MHR Network

A network facilitating the interaction between researchers and policy makers to promote the use of research-based evidence in decision-making.

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Providing access to a variety of publications

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Measuring the implementation of human rights policy

A project to develop an indicator for the national plan of action on human rights in Mexico.

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Measuring police misconduct and use of physical violence from arrest to imprisonment

A project in collaboration with the Kennedy School's Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management.

Assessing the role of birth registration and documentation of migrant children to ensure the protection of children's rights

A project in collaboration with the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies.

Measuring civilian casualties

An activity in collaboration with the Carr Center's National Security and Human Rights Program.

Measuring the reintegration of former child soldiers

A project addressing the challenges in measuring the effectiveness of programs that aim to reintegrate children formerly associated with armed forces and groups in post-conflict states.