Resources on human rights-based approaches
Guides and manuals
A Human Rights-Based Approach to EDUCATION FOR ALL
This document prepared by UNICEF and UNESCO brings together the current thinking and practice on human rights based approaches in the education sector. It presents key issues and challenges in rights-based approaches and provides a framework for policy and programme development from the level of the school up to the national and international levels.
United Nations Children‘s Fund/United Nations Educational, Scientifi c and Cultural Organization, 2007
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Applying a Rights-Based Approach: An inspirational guide for civil society
The Danish Institute for Human Rights (2007)
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Rights-based development approaches: combining politics, creativity and organisation
Action Aid
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A rights-based approach to development: what the policy documents of the UN, development cooperation and NGO agencies say
Susan Appleyard: OHCHR Asia Pacific (2002)
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Lessons learnt from Rights-Based Approaches in the Asia-Pacific Region
Upala Devi Banerjee (OHCHR 2005)
An elaborate overview of case studies on experiences with the human rights-based approach in the Asia-Pacific.
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Poverty and Inequality in an era of globalisation: opportunities and limitations of a rights based approach
B. De Gaay Fortman: Second International Conference on Human Rights, Mofid University (Qom 2003)
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Developing A Human Rights-Based Approach to Addressing Maternal Mortality
K. Hawkings: Desk Review, DFID Health Resource Centre (2005)
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Rights and Power Workshop: Report
A. Hughes & J. Wheeler: Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation, and Accountability, Workshop IDS(2003)
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The Winners and Losers from Rights-Based Approaches to Development Conference
Institute For Development Policy And Management: Research, University of Manchester (2005)
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Taking Duties Seriously: Individual Duties in International Human Rights Law
International Council of Human Rights Policy (1999)
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Making rights work for the poor: Nigeria Kori and the construction of collective capabilities in Bangladesh
N. Kabeer: IDS Working Paper No. 200 (2003)
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To Claim our Rights: Livelihood security, human rights and sustainable development
C. Moser and A. Norton: Overseas Development Institute (2001)
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Rights-based Approaches in Development
M. Mukhopadhyay: Issue Paper (undated)
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Towards an actor oriented perspective on human rights
C. Nyamu-Musembi: IDS Working Paper 169 (2002)
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Frequently asked Questions on a Human Rights-Based Approach to Development Cooperation
Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2006)
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DFID Human Rights Review: A Review of How DFID Has Integrated Human Rights into Its Work
L.H. Piron and F. Watkins: Overseas Development Institute (2004)
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Care's experience with adoption of a rights-based approach: five case studies
J. Rand: Care USA (2002)
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Applying a human rights based approach to programming: experiences of UNICEF
D. Rozga: presentation paper prepared for the Workshop on Human Rights, Assets and Livelihood Security, and Sustainable Development (London 2001)
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Promoting Rights-Based Approaches
Joachim Theis: Save the Children (2004)
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Analysis Workshop Report: Does implementing a rights based approach increase impact on poverty reduction?
UK Inter-Agency Group on Rights Based Approaches (London 2006)
This report discusses the evaluation of an analysis workshop on the impact of the RBA on poverty reduction by making a comparison between rights-based approaches and non-rights-based approaches to development. Three cases illustrate the report, including in-depth country reports from Bangladesh, Malawi and Peru.
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A Human Rights-based Approach to Development Programming in UNDP – Adding the Missing Link
Van Weerelt: UNDP (2001)
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Rights-based Approaches and Beyond: Challenges of linking Rights and Participation
L. VeneKlasen et al: IDS Working Paper 235 (2004)
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A new Weave of Power, People and Politics: The action guide for advocacy and citizen participation, World Neighbours
L. VeneKlasen and V. Miller (2002)
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Rights-based development: a guide to implementation
Mary Ann Brocklesby and Sheena Crawford (UK 2005)
This guide fills a need in current operational development practice. It gives practical advice on how to embed rights issues within policy processes and working practices, and on how to reflect systematically on the processes involved in doing so. The guide provides support to development practitioners working towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and offers, through illustrations from examples of recent practice, steps towards making rights real.
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Focused on specific principles
Community services in refugee aid programmes: A critical analysis
Oliver Bakewell: UNHCR Working Paper Series No. 82 (March 2002)
UN research paper on refugees and the rights-based approach.
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Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA): Analysis of Experience
Robert Chambers: Chambers Analysis of PRA, World Development vol.22 No. 9 (1994)
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Beyond Buzzwords: "Poverty Reduction", "Participation" and "Empowerment" in Development Policy
A. Cornwall and K. Brock: Programme paper No. 10, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (2005)
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Participatory Methods
L. Mayoux (2001)
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Train-the-Trainer Manual, Participation: Civic Education and Community Mobilization
Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (2005)
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Assessing empowerment: Towards a framework for assessing women's empowerment
S. Mosedale: Journal of International Development 17
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Challenges and Opportunities in implementing a rights-based approach to Development: An Oxfam America Perspective
R. Offenheiser and S. Holcombe: Non-profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, vol 32 (2003)
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Moving from Individual to Constructive Accountability
J.G. Seiling: PhD Dissertation, University of Tilburg/Taos Institute (2005)
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Rights Based Approaches
United Nations OHCHR
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A human rights-approach to poverty reduction strategies
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Draft Guidelines (2004)
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Reclaiming Voices: A Study on Participatory Human Rights Education Methodologies in the Asia-Pacific
Asia Pacific Regional Resource Centre for Human Rights Education (ARRC) (2004)
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Facing the Challenge, Series no. 1: Overcoming the cultural relativism debate
Zinzombe, S., Equalinrights
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IIED Power Tools
The International Institute for Environment and Development has developed a “Power tools” series. Power tools are policy tools that address power asymmetries between the marginalised and marginalisers. You will find a broad range of very useful and diverse tools, loosely arranged in the following way: tools - (1) for understanding; (2) for organising; (3) for engaging; and (4) for ensuring. Essentially, they refer to instruments, approaches, schemes, devices and methods for tackling the differences in power that impede policies and institutions from achieving equitable natural resource management. See also links to other key databases.
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CRIN resource centre
The Childs Rights Information Network posesses an amount of documents on the rights based approach, human rights programming and human rights tools.
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