Distribution by Region

Distribution by Organisation Type, Document Type, Region and Year

Rights-based approach occurs mostly in documents published in Europe, followed by Africa, North America, Asia and Oceania with comparatively smaller contributions. Overall, the top five contributors in terms of occurrences are IGO, NGO_Fed, NGO, Net and Found organisations.

IGO and NGO, Net and Found documents provide the greatest number of occurrences, primarily from activity reports published in Europe. NGO_Fed documents provide the greatest number of occurrences, primarily from activity reports published in Africa.

Rights-based approach ...

• has no single definition

• is a/an

  • approach to poverty & development

  • programming principle

    • for Safer Communities

    • for UN programming

  • area

  • value

• has variants

  • "rights-based" - RBA

  • "human rights-based" - HRBA

• is promoted by many organisations

• has been employed at least since the 1990s

• is applied to areas / programming

  • development

  • children, youth

  • education

  • trafficking

• has pillars / principles

  • which are not standardised

  • e.g., empowerment, solidarity & campaigning

  • e.g., universality, indivisibility, inter-dependence, equality, participation, accountability (UN Common Understanding 2003)

• has benefits, including

  • hold power-holders to account

  • enable poor families to claim their rights

  • inclusion & empowerment

  • prevent discrimination, increase participation

• is taught via training, which may be

  • required for employees

  • a service offered to partners & other actors

• has challenges with adoption

  • with non-humanitarian stakeholders

  • state violations

  • exposing workers to risk

  • misunderstandings about human rights

• is necessary to improve outcomes for many areas, including

  • refugees, asylum seekers

  • gender, disaster response

  • food insecurity

• requires

  • transparency, accountability

  • engagement, focus on inequality, relationships

  • viewing affecting populations as rights holders

• can be difficult to translate across cultures

• can experience funding tensions

• is affected by the influence of new technology

• is contrasted with other approaches

  • politically motivated, other humanitarian

  • service delivery

  • community-based rehabilitation

ActionAid's work is rooted in a human rights-based approach, which means supporting people and communities to empower themselves to change the policies and practices that deny their rights and perpetuate poverty.

A rights-based approach, which is the foundation of all SCA interventions, means that all members of society must be included. SCA in particular focuses on women and per- sons with disabilities - people who because of the values or ignorance of others oen nd themselves in exclusion.

RIGHTS-BASED APPROACHES: An approach promoted by many development agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to achieve a positive transformation of power relations among the various development actors.

Approach

• advancing women's rights

• promoting rights-based sustainable alternatives

• partnership and alliance building

• working with the youth

• local, national, sub-regional and regional linkages

• approach to poverty and development

  • capability approach

Principle

• principle in Safer Communities programming

• principle in UN country programming

• main principle

  • development cooperation effectiveness

  • policy coherence for development

• key principle guiding UN programming

  • gender equality

  • environmental sustainability

  • capacity development

  • results-based management

Area

• self-organization of community groups

• technical skills for agriculture

• nutrition knowledge

• female leadership

• area of innovation

  • designing social protection that triggers broader development

  • holistic policy frameworks integrating social protection into national development plans

Others

• value

• foundation for interventions

• basis for UN Development Assistance Framework

• practice for international development co-operation

SOS response: SOS Children's Villages is a non-political, nondenominational organisation that works to protect and safeguard children, by strengthening families and building-up the capacities of care professionals, also training them in how to apply child rights-based approaches to their work with children.

UNICEF's human rights approach shines consistent light on disparities, and it is reflected in campaigns to provide immunizations for all children, end pockets of child malnutrition and ensure that quality education starts from preschool.

Belgium's rights-based approach focuses on empowerment and human rights. It mainstreams the rights-based approach in all its interventions by focusing on specific individual rights of groups such as women and children; sexual and reproductive rights; and the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

NRC therefore pursues a holistic rights based approach encompassing the early recovery phase and promoting durable solutions and recovery.

Assisting the Government in adopting an integrated human rights approach to public security, including in the fight against organized crime, will be a major challenge for OHCHR in 2009.

Human Rights Trust purpose: To improve people’s access to their rights and services by conducting a demonstration project of a participative rights-based approach to social justice.

Securing rights In 2010, ActionAid Australia leveraged the strengths of its international network and progressive rights based approach to support innovative programs across Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.

We highly appreciated AAV's innovative human rights based approach that involves citizens, especially people living in poverty and the marginalized to ensure that their voices are heard in the process of developing laws directly affecting their lives".

It outlines what social protection encompasses, focusing on three areas of innovation: universal rights-based approaches; designing social protection so that it triggers broader development; and holistic policy frameworks that integrate social protection into national development plans.

A comprehensive human rights-based approach to urbanization would contribute to environmental sustainability policies, as resources and risks determine the standards of living and access to basic resources.18

This resolution led to the transformation of the Centre for Human Rights into the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The new Office was vested with a wide-ranging mandate and primary responsibility for promoting, coordinating, strengthening and streamlining human rights work and related activities throughout the United Nations system. Twelve years later, at the 2005 UN World Summit, Heads of State from around the world committed themselves to an expansion of the UN Human Rights programme that recognized the central role and importance of ensuring the application of a human rights-based approach in all aspects of the UN's work.

The behaviour and actions of these communities thus offer rich insight into the theoretical constructs of two important approaches to poverty and development: Amartya Sen’s capability approach (Sen, 1985; 1999) and Thomas Pogge’s human rights-based approach (Pogge, 2008).

ActionAid was founded as a charity in 1972, and throughout our history we have innovated and evolved our approach to better address the structural drivers of poverty and injustice. In the 1990s, we adopted a human rights based approach to development, which we continue to apply.

• development

• programming

• education

• disability

• humanitarian assistance

• trafficking

• migration

• women & girls

• women's access to food

• disasters

• hunger

• poverty

• injustice

• advocacy

• health care

• sexual, reproductive health & rights

• policy

• analysis & implementation strategy

• UN programmes

• national budget monitoring

• prison management

• preserving cultural heritage

A human rights approach to women's access to food is the foundation of CARE's gender transformative nutrition programming.

Responding to Emergencies Our rights-based approach to disasters combines emergency response with programmes and policy work.

This rights-based approach informs our advocacy work on food, agriculture and trade.

Through OHCHR's trainings and awareness-raising activities, knowledge was increased among border guards on applying a human rights-based approach to combat and prevent trafficking in persons.

• empowerment, solidarity, campaigning

• empowerment, solidarity, campaigning and alternatives

• universality, indivisibility, inter-dependence, equality, participation, accountability (UN Common Understanding 2003)

• inclusion and non-discrimination, equity and equality, participation and empowerment, and accountability

• accountability, participation, transparency and nondiscrimination

• viewing target groups as active agents of their own change

• availability of and access to complaints mechanisms

AAK commits to work with Women, Children and Youth living in poverty and exclusion to claim and realise their constitutional rights through working within three main pillars of Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA): empowerment, solidarity and campaigning.

Rights-Based Approach: We therefore affirm and reinforce the six main principles of the Common Understanding (UN, 2003) of the rights-based approach. These include universality, indivisibility, inter-dependence, equality, participation, and accountability.

The RBA is guided by four principals; accountability, participation, transparency and nondiscrimination.

The HRBA consists of the following elements: (1) using international human rights standards; (2) empowering target groups; (3) encouraging participation; (4) ensuring non-discrimination; and (5) holding stakeholders accountable to fundamental rights.

• hold power-holders to account

• enable poor families to claim their rights

• help household develop personal integration plan

• support people with disabilities to claim their rights

• inclusion & empowerment

• prevent discrimination, increase participation

• refugee issues

• ensure civic rights

• ensure equal & just allocation

• defending rights of girls

• climate change

• eliminate preventable maternal mortality

• migrant protection

• strengthen solidarity

• land certificates, local microfinancing for women

• giving target groups a say

• rehabilitation of vulnerable youth

• reach poor households effectively

• society-wide benefits

• policy tool

• protecting rights of homeless

• improve development cooperation, sustainbility

The human rights based approach improves development cooperation effectiveness by promoting ownership and thus the sustainability of activities. It also fosters inclusive partnerships, transparency and mutual accountability, as both donor and partner countries are committed to respecting the same universal commitments.

SCA considers marginalization and disempowerment, rather than simply lack of resources, the root causes of poverty. Consequently, SCA applies a rights-based approach, seeking the inclusion and empower-ment of individuals, communities and local organisations so that they may participate fully in society and influence their own development.

Evidence from countries that have successfully achieved the Millennium Development Goals demonstrates that rights-based approaches reach poor households more effectively while minimising administrative, social, political and particularly economic costs, enabling social protection to generate maximum growth and development.

Nineteen mandate-holders issued a joint statement during the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December, urging the international community to adopt a human rights-based approach in relation to climate change.

During 2014, 25% of our staff furthered their education through individual training courses. Our revamped induction programme saw the introduction of Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) training as a mandatory component.

SPO worked with state and civil society institutions to build their capacities in understanding and adopting rights-based approach within their policy and operational frameworks.

With OHCHR's support, the Ministry of Education is working in five regions to develop a human rights approach in schools responsible for training primary school teachers.

The chart below represents the distribution of rights-based approach between 2005 and 2019 in terms of the number of occurrences and relative frequency of occurrences. It also allows you to view the distribution across Regions, Organisations and Document types.

The tendency of States is to focus on law enforcement based responses, so a constant challenge for OHCHR is to re-focus stakeholders on a human rights-based approach.

Some states promoted a human rights approach but practised questionable human rights standards for minorities in their own countries, and at times engaged in the same expulsion or deportation practices they criticized in others.

LDP partners appear not confident to address governance and Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) issues in communities due to fear of being victimised by authorities and politicians. iii.

One of the major challenges with regard to main-streaming human rights-based approaches into policy and practice is a persistent misunderstanding of the issue. Human rights are not a ‘burden’ on governments. Greater attention to human rights has practical and pragmatic results because it makes the response to the HIV epidemic more effective and efficient. The argument can be also reversed: better inclusion of people living with HIV means de facto advance in respect to their human rights. Improving the conditions for meeting human rights obligations is not a ‘zero-sum game’ as it is often perceived: it opens a virtuous circle of mutual benefits for both affected individual and their societies.

APRRN believes that for meaningful regional cooperation, states have to adopt a rights based approach, addressing conditions and concerns in the source and transit countries for refugees and asylum seekers.

Moving beyond a beneficiary model of disaster response, the chapter argues that, in order to reduce future risks, aid organizations must adopt a rights-based approach to address the causes of social vulnerability which are rooted in gender inequality.

The fact that hunger was increasing even before the food and economic crises suggests that present solutions are insufficient and that a right-to-food approach has an important role to play in eradicating food insecurity.

A rights-based approach requires high standards of transparency and accountability. Internal rules and regulations are not enough - a culture of pride in governance and in adhering to good practices is essential. The trust of target groups, staff, authorities, members and donors is key. Their time, commitment and feedback makes change possible.

Power and lack of power are important and complex elements of a human rights-based approach. Different interests and power structures frequently clash with each other. Applying a human rights-based approach involves active civil engagement, highlighting conflicts and inequality, and seeking constructive relationships between rights holders and duty bearers to enable long-term solutions.

Responding to the symptoms only can lead some charities and humanitarian agencies to define the problem in their own image; that is, shaping the analysis of the problem to fit the gap-filling services that they are able to provide. Consequently, the limitations of the response are defined by the limitations of the charities themselves. Not only does this limit the influence of local people and their organisations to influence change, but most alarmingly, we as charities are making the lack of response to need OUR problem and shifting the spotlight off the state, local authorities, and communities to deliver on their duty to provide in the first instance. Over the past few years, human rights based approaches have evolved, in part, as an attempt to address these issues. The perception of those who live with poverty and the effects of conflict have been transformed from people who are defined as needy to people who have rights, which demand a response.

Lost in translation While translating the rhetoric of rights-based approaches into a practical implementation methodology is difficult in many contexts, in Myanmar the challenges to creating an environment conducive to open and honest feedback are especially acute.

ActionAid's HRBA approach is at times in tension with the demands of institutional funders, whose interpretation of effectiveness and focus on short-term, tangible deliverables often differs from the needs expressed by communities.

Conclusion Whereas the 'new humanitarianism' that emerged in the mid-1990s focused on human rights-based approaches to humanitarian endeavours and later on humanitarian reform, the new humanitarianism of today is about technological innovation.

The campaign to legislate restrictions on funding to organizations that highlight the lack of international accountability, report to the International Criminal Court, advocate right of return, call for human rights approach rather than politically motivated or humanitarian ones, and support BDS in a number of European countries has resulted in a huge loss of core funding for our 2018 budget.

The Community Child Nutrition Project brought a new dimension to our work and forced us to work from a rights based approach instead of service delivery.

On social inclusion our programmes now take a rights-based approach rather than focusing on community based rehabilitation in line with the strategy launched mid-year.