V. >> F ramework in Practice - Implementing and Monitoring Rights >> Using indicators for human rights come performance indicators into one, thereby simplifying the assessment approach without any loss of information or precision. More importantly, the use of the three categories of indicators—structural, process and outcome—enables the transition from a local (project or programme) to a national or subnational analysis and assessment of a situation. 3 Human rights advocacy and people empowerment The indicator framework for human rights presented in this Guide strengthens the language of human rights advocacy in several ways. Firstly, it makes human rights more concrete and tangible in the eyes of policymakers. Secondly, it helps in identifying tools in keeping with the context, thereby encouraging national ownership of the advocacy strategy. Thirdly, it helps in tracing the entire range of measures, from the institutional requirement for respecting, protecting and fulfilling human rights to the processes that need to be implemented and monitored so that the desired results for realizing human rights can be articulated and pursued. This information permits human rights stakeholders to have a more focused advocacy, articulation of claims and effective engagement with the duty bearer. Consequently, in the event of gaps in the realization of human rights, for instance in accessing legal remedies or preventive and curative health care, the stakeholders can identify specific strategies and interventions to be undertaken by a duty bearer and the indicators to monitor those interventions. Some of the experiences (see boxes 28 to 32) show how illustrative indicators for different human rights reflected in this Guide can be deployed to create a country-owned strategy for improving human rights advocacy and implementation. In general, CSOs working on specific human rights or related issues (e.g., health, administration of justice or gender) and institutions like NHRIs, institutions for equal opportunity or minority affairs and statistical agencies could be brought together to be made aware and encouraged to put the tables developed in this Guide into context (see chap. II, box 8). Putting these tables into context helps in building ownership and improves their acceptability in different country-level human rights activities. Once a minimum capacity to work with human rights indicators is catalysed, particularly among CSOs, their use in multiple contexts can be self-sustaining. The work on indicators undertaken by residents of a social housing complex in Northern Ireland with the assistance of an NGO, Participation and the Practice of Rights Project, is particularly interesting in demonstrating how a set of indicators related to the right to adequate housing can be effectively developed and used by the rights holders themselves (chap. III, box 17).12 At a more macro level, fact sheets produced by the Center for Economic and Social Rights, another CSO, provided useful insights in assessing the realization of rights and fulfilment of related obligations for a number of countries. Some of these fact sheets were part of the information received by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for its dialogues with State parties.13 12. A  nother example is the Right to Education Project, which developed a tool for measuring the right to education to inform policy and advocacy work (www.right-to-education.org). 13. www.cesr.org. 112 Human Rights Indicators