Research
Collaborative research advancing social and economic rights accountability.
See SRAC Publications.
See the Social Rights Community-University Research Alliance co-directed by SRAC.
See ESCR-Net's Case Law Database on Social Rights.
SRAC provides important research into social rights, based on a participatory research model and extensive consultation with affected communities. SRAC board members are active in SRAC research projects and oversee the direction of SRAC research. SRAC also relies on an extensive network of academic researchers and practitioners from across Canada and around the world for assistance and consultation in its research initiatives. Its innovative research model bridges academic and community and domestic and international research.
SRAC's research focuses on enhancing social rights accountability mechanisms at the local, provincial, national and international levels, providing research and organizational support for community organizations to develop capacity in social rights practice, and compiling and analysing emerging case law, including pleadings and strategic approaches used in this area. Through funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council - Community University Research Alliance (CURA), SRAC provides part-time funding for its Executive Director to co-direct the Social Rights Accountability Project. That research has been unanimously judged by a Mid-term Adjudication Committee for the Social Sciences and the Humanities Research Council as "among the best ones reviewed." Many recent developments in the area of social rights accountability, both in Canada and internationally, were supported by research and action initiated under the project. The project has been presented to international visitors as exemplary of the principles behind, and the effectiveness of, the CURA model.
Some of the research outcomes of the SRAP are available at www.srap.ca/publications.