Annex I: Methodology

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Annex I: Methodology

The information contained in this report was collected through primary and

secondary sources, (qualitative and quantitative).

PRIMARY SOURCES

Quantitative

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Questionnaire sent to NHRIs

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Questionnaire sent to FRA’s Fundamental Rights Platform– civil society

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Results for awareness of NHRIs from the Fundamental Rights Survey

Qualitative

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Interviews with NHRIs

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Interview with ENNHRI

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Interview with GANHRI

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Interview with Equinet

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Expert meeting with representatives of NHRIs

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Advisory board on NHRIs report

SECONDARY SOURCES

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Desk research

FRA staff collected data through questionnaires and interviews of the then

28 EU Member States and the two accession countries falling within FRA’s

mandate– North Macedonia and Serbia. This was carried out between April

and September2019. The NHRIs or equivalent institutions1 with membership

of ENNHRI, for those Member States with no NHRI in place, responded to

aquestionnaire and were interviewed. Atotal of 34 NHRIs received FRA’s

questionnaire; 33 responded, although some NHRIs opted to not answer all

sections of the questionnaire. Additional desk research was conducted during

the same period. The NHRIs and the national liaison off‌icers conducted data

verif‌ication of the draft report in January2020.

The advisory board to the report, which included two independent experts,

Kirsten Roberts Lyer, Associate Professor, Central European University, and Chris

Sidoti, Adjunct Professor, Australian Catholic University, and representatives of

ENNHRI, Equinet, the IOI, the Council of Europe, the European Commission, the

UN Human Rights Off‌ice, OSCE-ODIHR, the Advisory Panel of FRA’s Fundamental

Rights Platform and GANHRI provided valuable feedback on the initial data

analysis, key f‌indings and draft report.

Over 100 civil society organisations from FRA’s Fundamental Rights Platform

(FRP) responded to atargeted online consultation on the cooperation between

NHRIs and civil society. The platform is FRA’s channel for cooperation and

information exchange with civil society organisations active in the f‌ield of

fundamental rights at the national, grassroots, European or international level.