What is a human rightsbased approach to development

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What is a human rights-based approach to
development?
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• Human Rights are
• Inherent to the human being
• Universal
• Inalienable
• Indivisible
• Interrelated and interdependent
• Freedoms and entitlements of rights-holders
• Obligations of duty-bearers
• Legally guaranteed by human rights law

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• A human rights-based approach is based on
• a normative framework guaranteeing freedoms and
  entitlements of rights-holders and imposing
  obligations on duty-bearers
• key human rights principles which should guide
  all development cooperation in all sectors and in
  all phases of the programming process

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• The normative framework
• International Covenant on Civil and Political
  Rights (1966)
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and
  Cultural Rights (1966)
• Other key international human rights treaties

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Governments have the
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• Key elements of economic, social and cultural
  rights
• Availability
• Accessibility
• Acceptability
• Quality
• as defined by the UN Committee on Economic,
  Social and Cultural Rights in its General
  Comments (for example GC 12 on the right to
  adequate food, GC 13 on the right to education,
  GC 14 on the right to health, GC 15 on the right
  to water GC 19 on the right to social security)

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and how they overlap to form a core of the
Human Rights Based Approach
Human Rights Principles
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• The key principles of a HRBA should be reflected
  at all stages of the programming process
• Programme Design
• Programme Implementation
• Monitoring and Evaluation

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• Examples for assessment tools
• Causal analysis, role/pattern analysis, capacity
  gap analysis
• Tool to review national health policies, plans,
  legislations and strategies from a human rights
  perspective (WHO/SIDA)
• Human Rights Impact Assessments

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• What is Human Rights-Based Capacity Development?

Source UN common learning package on a HRBA
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• Monitoring and Evaluation
• A HRBA enhances accountability and participation
  by
• allowing external actors, such as external
  academic institutions and civil society
  organizations to monitor the strengths and
  weaknesses of the governments performance in
  complying with its obligations
• making use of human rights monitoring instruments
• increasing the depth and range of data and
  assessing the impact of health strategies on
  vulnerable groups
• involving the rights-holders and the community in
  the monitoring and evaluation of health systems.

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Treaty bodies
Source UN Common Training Package on a HRBA
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The HRBA marks a paradigm shift
Target groups
Government Partners
Development Cooperation
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Source WHO