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DeCiDE: The Monitoring Journey, is a five-part series of guiding webinars designed to accompany cities through the full cycle of the Human Rights Standardized Monitoring System (SMS) — from concept to practice. The series is part of the “Boost Democratic Participation in Cities to Recharge Democracy in Europe” – DeCiDE project. This journey is designed to guide cities through a step by step process of development, validation, and testing of their monitoring tools, ensuring cross-cutting coherence and comparability.
The series will support cities in co-developing and implementing a participatory monitoring framework grounded in human rights principles, data, and inclusive governance. Through interactive exchanges and shared learning, it aims to build collective capacity to translate rights into measurable progress at the local level.
This first webinar will introduce the Human Rights Indicator Framework. It will guide cities in understanding the importance and relevance of human rights indicators aligned with the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) framework. The discussion will highlight how the indicators are adopted into practice, and drawing examples from the local context, DeCiDE cities will share insights on some of their projects and the applicability of the identified human rights indicators to their local context.
Overview
The session will focus on:
- Understanding the importance of our Standardized Monitoring System (DeCiDE)
- Introducing the FRA Human Rights Framework and understanding the concept and function of Human Rights Indicators.
- Exploring the purpose of monitoring, how Human Rights indicators can be developed to measure change at the local level
- Showcasing examples of monitoring practices by DeCiDE cities.
- A glimpse into the next webinars of the series.
Who is invited to attend:
Local government officials, European Union representatives, and civil society organizations local human rights organization and officers
Speakers
- Moderator: HRCN representative
- Keynote speaker: Human Rights specialist
- Panelists (TBC): M&E Expert, Representative of participating cities
Draft Agenda
- 16:00 – 16:10 | Welcome and Introduction
- 16:10 – 16:25 | Keynote: Human Rights Indicators as Tools for Local Change
- 16:25 – 16:45 | From Principles to Practice: Designing Indicators for Cities
- 16:45 – 17:10 | Interactive Session: Mapping Local Indicators
- 17:10 – 17:25 | Wrap-up and Next Steps
- 17:25 – 17:30 | Closing Remarks
