V. >> F ramework in Practice - Implementing and Monitoring Rights >> Using indicators for human rights Fig. XII Indicator framework - compliance and performance assessments HUMAN RIGHTS COMPLIANCE ASSESSMENT Structural indicators (Commitments) PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT Input indicators Output indicators Process indicators (Efforts) Outcome indicators Outcome indicators (Results) ANCHORED IN HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS Performance indicators or indicators generally used in development programming “[allow] the verification of changes in the development intervention or [show] results relative to what was planned”.7 In line with results-based management and project-cycle logic approaches, the main reference or source for identifying such indicators is the expected results of the development programme.8 In the performance assessment framework, the different categories of indicators generally identified and applied are Impact indicators ANCHORED IN PROGRAMME OBJECTIVEs input, output, outcome and impact indicators. While input indicators relate to the financial, human, material, technological and information resources used for the development intervention, the output indicators are the products and services that result from the completion of activities9 within a development intervention. Similarly, while outcome indicators are the intended or achieved short-term and medium-term effects of an intervention’s outputs, usually requiring the collective efforts of partners  ee Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based S Management (Paris, 2002). 8. See also Indicators for Policy Management. 9. Activity refers to actions taken or work performed through which inputs, such as funds, technical assistance and other types of resources, are mobilized to produce specific outputs (see Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management). 7. 110 Human Rights Indicators