The members of the Advisory Council for Human Rights are not salaried. The staff of the department of human rights in the ministry of justice, mostly young attorneys, are salaried civil servants who are also assigned to Advisory Council for Human Rights work. In 1998, the Advisory Council for Human Rights received 80 million Sudanese pounds [approximately U.S.$33,600].

Outside support included a visit from the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and UNDP in March 1998; Dutch funding for a seminar in July 1998; human rights training by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights; and increasing UNICEF funding for the abduction and forced labor project started in 1999.

The Advisory Council for Human Rights has consistently sought technical and training assistance from the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, while simultaneously rejecting the proposal of independent monitors or investigators from that office.