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This Paper has been elaborated by the Rights and Development Group, staff members of seven Aprodev member-organisations and Lutheran World Relief as an Aprodev-observer, after examining present policies and practices of their organizations and with due reference to the Mandate given to the group to coordinate efforts related to rights and development.
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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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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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2008. Gaby Oré Aguilar. University of Antwerp- IOB- Institute of Development Policy and Management.
This paper proposes a methodology for examining the use and relevance of human
rights in local communities as they quest to change their reality of poverty, social exclusion or
marginalisation. The methodology draws on an innovative conceptual approach denominated ‘localising human rights,’ a process which takes the human rights needs and claims formulated by local people as a basis for further interpreting and elaborating human rights in the context of economic globalisation. This paper, through a literature review of interdisciplinary methodological approaches and participatory case studies, offers an introduction on how local communities’ use of human rights can be researched in the context of field studies.
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This publication is a practical guide to the human rights-based approach to programming for UNIFEM staff as well as partners, with a particular focus on the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). 2007.
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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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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.
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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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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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Save the Children, 2006.
Many programmes in the region are diversity-blind and do not actively address
root causes of child rights violations such as patriarchal structures and unequal
power relations. To ensure that the principle of non-discrimination is addressed
holistically, the need for an in-depth exploratory work on non-discrimination is
pivotal. This will hopefully contribute towards more effective policy development
and strengthening of existing programmes to meet children’s rights and needs.
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Mary Picard: CARE (2003)
This document provides an insight on CARE's experience with rights-based programming
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INTRAC. 2006 Authors: Emma Harris- Curtis, Oscar Marleyn, Oliver Bakewell.
This paper presents the experience of Northern NGOs in engaging with rights-based approaches. It is based on research carried out by INTRAC and South Research among 17 Northern European NGOs. The research focuses on the particular challenges international NGOs face when translating rights policies into operational reality. The paper explores the different ways NGOs interpret rights-based approaches and how they have put them into practice. It also reflects on the organisational implications of adopting rights-based approaches.
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The title says it!
CARE (2005)
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Prepared for the United Nations Development Program by Human Rights Education Associates. 2007.
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CARE: Facilitator's Guidebook and Work Book
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This reader provides a list of materials with regards to Children, HRBA's and Development Programming, as well as the links with which to access all materials. Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 (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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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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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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