The Advocates for Human Rights, a U.S.-based NGO, has created methodologies for research on domestic violence and employment discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace which may provide useful guides for other advocates who are developing their own methodologies. 

In addition, the Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (CEELI) of the American Bar Association recently developed the CEDAW Assessment Tool, which is a comprehensive tool for assessing a country's compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. The tool offers detailed guidelines to enable a team of assessors to examine a country's de jure and de facto compliance with international law and to create a report of their findings. CEELI, in collaboration with local NGOs, has carried out pilot tests of the CEDAW Assessment Tool in a number of countries, and these reports are useful examples of how this methodology can be used.

The International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (ICHRDD), a Canadian NGO, and Amnesty International have also produced a manual: A Methodology for Gender-Sensitive Research (Agnès Callamard, 1999) and two case-study booklets: Documenting Human Rights Violations by State Agents: Sexual Violence (Agnès Callamard, 1999) and Investigating Women's Rights Violations in Armed Conflicts (Agnès Callamard, 2001), which provide methodologies for conducting investigations into violence against women. An overview of these documents is available on the ICHRDD website, where they can also be ordered, under "Publications" and "Women's Rights."

The Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights has developed a Professional Training Series, which includes a number of handbooks and manuals on human rights treaty reporting, monitoring and documentation of specific human rights abuses. The materials are intended to be adapted "to the needs and experience, in terms of culture, education and history, of a range of potential audiences within the target group. Where appropriate, information on effective pedagogical techniques is included to assist trainers in using the manuals as effectively as possible." Manual No. 7, Training Manual on Human Rights Monitoring, is available in five languages (Arabic, English, French, Russian and Spanish) and includes an overview of international and humanitarian law, principles of monitoring, guidelines on information-gathering and interviewing as well as specific information on monitoring in detention facilities, the rights of refugees and displaced persons, the rights of children and monitoring during situations of armed conflict. The manual can be accessed in PDF format from the UNHCHR training and educational materials webpage or chapter-by-chapter in html format from the University of Minnesota, Human Rights Library.