Resources on human rights-based development programming
Guides and Manuals
Strategy Guide #1 Using Mobile Phones In Electoral and Voter Registration Campaigns
This series of Strategy Guides is designed to equip organisations around the world with the know-how to deploy effective mobile campaigns for a variety of types of activism and advocacy.
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Fostering child-centered approaches to transport research, planning and policy development: A pilot methodology
This article presents a pilot methodology and examines some methodological and ethical challenges. The approach is intended to ensure that the voices of children and young people as transport stakeholders emerge sufficiently to influence transport research, planning and policies aimed at enhancing their access to socio-economic opportunities.
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Consolidated Good Practices in Education and Child Labour
This publication includes a broad selection of ILO-IPEC's “good practices” in using education as a key tool to eliminate child labour which will hopefully inspire, motivate and guide those who are actively working to support working children or former working children, their families and their communities.
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Creating an Enabling Environment: Capacity Building in Children‘s Participation
This book gives an account of how Save the Children Sweden and partners in Viet Nam went about assessing their work on building the capacity of adults to create an enabling environment for the participation of children.
Family Portraits
Katherine Cochrane: SOS Sahel International (UK) & International Institute for Environment and Development
This Guide provides tools for understanding and communicating how real families organise their time and other assets over time to make a living. The process of making and sharing the family portrait has the capacity to take individual and family perspectives to the level of policy change.
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Child Rights Programming
Save the Children Sweden, Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Regional Office for South and Central Asia (2007)
This is a starter kit that provides a basic introduction to Child Rights Programming. The manual is based on personal experiences gathered while conducting workshops and training programmes across South and Central Asia and Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Using these sessions, the trainer will be able to run a 3-day session on Child Rights Programming.
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Measurement and methodological challenges to CARE International's rights-based programming
Mary Picard: CARE (2003)
This document provides an insight on CARE's experience with rights-based programming
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Principles into Practice: Learning from innovative rights-based programmes
The title says it!
CARE (2005)
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Human rights initiative basic introduction to human rights and rights-based programming
CARE: Facilitator's Guidebook and Work Book
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Children and rights-based approaches to development programming
Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)
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Human Rights Guidance Note for Humanitarian Coordinators
Inter Agency Standing Committee, OHCHR (2006)
A document of guidance on Human Rights-Based Programming for humanitarian coordinators.
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Promoting rights based approaches: Experiences and ideas from Asia and the Pacific
J. Theis (2004)
This work consists of four parts that highlight different aspects of rights-based programming:
Part 1: Rights-Based Programming - An Evolving Approach
Part 2: Applying Human Rights in Programmes and Organisation
Part 3: Exploring Different Ways of Working presents four examples of rights-based programmes:
Part 4: Searching for Innovative Tools presents experiences and experiments with tools for rights-based analysis, planning. monitoring and evaluation.
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Rights-based approach to development programming: Training manual
United Nations Philippines (2002)
This training manual is designed to provide UN staff with a conceptual and operational understanding of the human rights-based approach and its importance to development programming. The objectives of the manual are; to understand the fundamental human rights concepts, to master the use of human rights based tools in the programming process and to understand the role and added value of human rights in development strategies towards the realization of Millennium Development Goals.
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Training Course Human Rights Principles for Programming
UNICEF (2000)
A very thorough core course designed for all UNICEF staff and teams at all levels to know, internalise and apply core human rights principles, values and standards of performance and behaviour in their work.
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Applying a human rights based approach to programming: Experiences of UNICEF
UNICEF Presentation Paper prepared for the Workshop on Human Rights, Assets and Livelihood Security, and Sustainable Development (London 2001)
The UNICEF situation assessment and analysis is a broad examination of how children and women fare in relation to the full ranges of rights. It identifies how law, social norms, public policy, traditional practices, and institutional responses impact children and women and the factors that create and perpetuate discrimination and social exclusion and hinder the realisation of the rights. UNICEF seeks to identify effective ways to link its situation assessment and analysis in programming with the State's process for reporting on its treaty obligations to children and women.
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Operationalising the rights agenda: DFID's Participatory Rights Assessment Methodologies (PRAM) Project
DFID (UK 2004)
A useful rights-based assessment tool making use of a participatory methodology. The project paper includes case studies in Malawi, Zambia, Romania and Peru and offers some clear entry points for rights-based strategising and programming.
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Putting Rights-Based Development into Context: CARE’s Programming Approaches In Malawi and Bangladesh
The Institute for Development Policy and Management (Manchester 2005)
This paper discusses the ways in which CARE is addressing some of the programmatic and organizational challenges and is transforming itself into an organization with the potential to contribute to democratization processes at the community level. Drawing particularly on experiences in Bangladesh and Malawi, it discuss how CARE’s rights-based approach takes into account the political economy of localities and the larger context within which these are embedded.
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Handbook in Human Rights Assessment: State Obligations Awareness & Empowerment
NORAD: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Oslo 2001)
The handbook aims at providing the user with a practical tool for enhancing the human rights profile of development programmes.
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Haqqi / My Right: Partners in Translating Children’s Rights to Reality (Issue 14)
Arab resource Collective (Beirut 2005)
The three central subjects that this issue of Haqqi reflects on are the Juvenile Justice System, the Human Development Report 2004 and Child Rights Programming. The Child Rights Programming component tracks a major shift in programming perspectives from needs to rights, revealing its impact and additional value to children’s lives and community development alike.
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Human Rights Based Approaches in Ireland: Principles, Policies and Practice
Amnesty International (Dublin 2005)
This document aims to provide a basic framework for understanding and promoting human rights based approaches in Ireland today. It is designed to assist civil society in influencing key policy-makers and opinion-formers so as to ensure that national policies, law reform and practices are based on human rights.
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Development of a Rights Based Monitoring Tool for CARE Malawi
CARE (UK 2004)
To support CARE Malawi in furthering RBA in new and innovative ways, Jay Goulden and Sarah Glyde from CARE International UK worked with a team of staff to design and test an easy to use rights-based monitoring tool.
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IDS Policy Briefing Issue 17
Institute of Development Studies, at the University of Sussex / Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability (Brighton 2003)
International development agencies are increasingly using rights-based language. But how can their policy and practice support people’s own efforts to turn their rights into reality?
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How to Apply Rights-Based Approaches to Programming
A Handbook for International Save the Children Alliance Members (Lima 2005)
This handbook aims to provide an introduction to Child Rights Programming – Save the Children’s approach to the use of human rights principles and standards in its work with children, their families, carers and communities.
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Human Rights-Based Monitoring and Evaluation: A Discussion Paper
J. Theis (Save the Children 2003)
This paper proposes a rights-based approach to monitoring changes in human and children’s rights, accountability, participation and equity by measuring different dimensions of change: changes in people’s lives, in policies and practices, in equity, and in participation and empowerment. These dimensions of change should be applied consistently to programme goals, priorities, objectives and become the basis for monitoring changes at different levels.
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A Human Rights-Based Approach to Programming for Children and Women in Vietnam: Key Entry Points and Challenges
UNICEF (Hanoi 2004)
This case study presents a situation analysis on child rights in Viet Nam. It identifies key strategies and entry points, as well as challenges and future topics for progress in rights-based programming in the country.
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The challenge of applying a human rights approach to education: Lessons and suggestions from Zambia (Lusaka Workshop)
NORAD: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Lusaka 2002)
The seminar was intended as a forum for increasing awareness and understanding among the participants of the conceptual framework and practical implications of applying a human rights approach to development in general and to the education sector in particular. Moreover, the intention was to draw attention to the special concerns related to specific vulnerable groups, such as Zambia’s AIDS orphans. It also gave the participants an opportunity to reflect on their experiences in implementing education programmes.
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CARE‘s Experience with Adoption of a Rights-Based Approach: Five Case Studies
CARE (USA 2002)
In an effort to broaden its understanding of the implications of RBA integration in CARE and to foster learning across different parts of the CARE world, CARE‘s Rights/RBA Initiative commissioned the present set of five case studies. The selection includes cases from Uganda, India, Burundi, Vietnam and South Africa. The five cases represent a diverse range of contexts and approaches and thus shed light on the creative array of options available for RBA application.
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Human Rights as an Emerging Development Paradigm and some Implications for Programme Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
Mahesh Patel / Workshop (Nairobi 2002)
The positioning of rights as the primary goal of development brings a range of new and different issues and concept structures into play. Many of these relate to programme planning, monitoring and evaluation.
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Format for Right-Based Project Proposals
Save the Children
This tool may prove helpful in formulating rights-based project proposal with guidance from Save the Children‘s experience.
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A Human Rights-Based Approach to Development in practice: Some lessons learned from the Rights-based Municipal Assessment and Planning Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Laure-Anne Courdesse and Sarah Hemingway
In overview, part I addresses current thinking on human rights based approaches to development, particularly within the UN system, and reflects on how this is being applied in the Bosnia and Herzegovina context. Part II focuses upon the methodology applied in the Rights-based Municipal Assessment and Planning Project (RMAP) and the steps and tools necessary to conduct the RMAP assessments. Part III elaborates on some of the challenges encountered in defining and operationalising a human rights-based approach to assessment and analysis. Finally, observations will be made on the basis of our understanding and experience of human rights-based approaches in the field as to the importance of a HRBA.
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The Transformation of the Quality of Life through Human Rights-Bases Approach to Community-Based Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses
Garton Kamchedzera (Lilongwe 2003)
The purpose of this case study is to illustrate from the community‘s perspective that there is value added in the adoption of a human rights-based approach to the implementation of the Community Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses. The case study shows that using this approach, communities and service providers can improve the enjoyment of human rights not just for children aged 0 to 3 years, but also for entire communities.
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Thematic Programme Planning for the HIV/AIDS Supporting Strategy
Save the Children (2004)
This Thematic Programme Planning (TPP) Guidance Note is offering practical advice addressing the most important areas of concern for countries that are planning to tackle HIV/AIDS issues through their work. This document aims to support countries in developing HIV TPPs and to assist in developing objectives and monitoring indicators.
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