Human Rights-Based Approach
Below are some resources on implementing human rights-based approaches including
information on participation as well as monitoring and evaluation.
General References
"Guiit, I., and J. Gaventa. 1998. ""Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation: Learning from Change."" United Kingdom, IDS. "
http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/bookshop/briefs/Brief12.html
"Participatory monitoring and evaluation is a different approach which involves local people, development agencies, and policy makers deciding together how progress should be measured, and results acted upon. It can produce valuable lessons and improve accountability. However, it is a challenging process for all concerned since it encourages people to examine their assumptions about what constitutes progress, and to examine the contradictions and conflicts that can emerge."
"Patel, M. 2001. ""Human Rights as an Emerging Development Paradigm and Some Implications for Programme Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation."" Nairobi, UNICEF."
"This paper discusses the emergence of the current developmental paradigm that builds on the past paradigms (economic growth, basic needs, sustainable development), while focusing on human rights, governance, accountability, justice and empowerment while at the same time emphasizing the importance of the process of development as much as the end result. In particular, the focus of this paper is on using the rights-based approach for development planning and monitoring."
ELDIS Participation Resource Guide.
http://www.eldis.org/participation
"A comprehensive listing of major participation resources online with description of organizations, site content, contact details, practical manuals, major web sites, bibliographic sources, organizations and networks, and discussion lists. Themes include conflict, gender, capacity building, governance and monitoring and evaluation (M&E)."
"Institute of Development Studies(IDS) Participation Resource Centre, UK. "
http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/particip/index.html
"Through the work of the Participation Group, the Institute of Development Studies serves as a global centre for research, innovation and learning in citizen participation and participatory approaches to development. The Research Pages provide overviews, articles and reports from their programme; including unpublished practical information as well as research reports, training manuals, workshop reports, critical reflections and newsletters. "
"United Nations Development Programme. 1997. ""UNDP Empowering People: A Guide to Participation."" "
http://www.undp.org/sl/Documents/Manuals/Empowering/toc.htm
"A guidebook for UNDP staff on how to incorporate participatory processes into their work. It explains the concept of participation, strategies and methods of promoting participation as well as monitoring and evaluating participatory processes and institutionalising the practice of participation."
"Inter-American Development Bank. ""Resource Book on Participation."""
http://www.iadb.org/exr/english/POLICIES/participate
"This Resource book presents an overview of some of the most frequently used and successful participatory methodologies and techniques. Section 2 ‘Consultation Process A Regional Approach Stressing Partnership’ is especially helpful as it goes through how such a process should work, the different phases that exist, what the key elements of the process should be. Section 5 ‘Open Space: a Better Place to Meet (an Empowering Approach)’, Section 6 on ‘Participatory Action Research’. There are"
"World Bank. ""The Participation Source Book."""
http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/sourcebook/sbhome.htm
"Chapter II: This chapter contains examples of how World Bank staff used or helped others use participatory approaches in Bank-supported operations (http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/sourcebook/sb02.htm). Chapter IV: The practice pointers in Chapter IV focus on one particular group of stakeholders--the poor--and some of the common barriers to their participation. It presents the experience of Bank staff and their government counterparts and shares approaches to strengthening the financial and organizational capacities of the poor (or other marginalized groups, which most often are ‘the poor’). It also discusses ways of creating an enabling environment for the participation of all stakeholders, including the poor. It discusses ways in which participation can be enhanced and community capacity built up. (http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/sourcebook/sb04.htm). Refer to the other chapters as well which are accessible through http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/sourcebook/sbhome.htm."
"IDEA. 2001. “Democracy at the local level: The International IDEA Handbook on Participation, Representation, Conflict Management and Governance.”"
"Hijab, N. June 2003. ""Human Rights-Based Reviews of UNDP Programmes - Working Guidelines"" HURIST. "
http://www.undp.org/governance/docshurist/030617Guidelines.doc
A revision of the Working Guidelines issued by UNDP in October 2002 which sought to encourage UNDP programmes to include a human rights perspective in all its work. This paper includes the UN Common Understanding on human rights and the methodology for human rights based reviews as well as an HRBA Checklist.
"Hijab, N. October 2002. ""Guidelines for Human Rights-Based Reviews of UNDP Programmes"", HURIST. "
http://www.undp.org/governance/docshurist/021028Guidelines%2025-10-02.doc
This paper is divided into two parts-the first section looks at human rights itself and the evolution of UNDP programming and the second reviews UNDP programmes from a rights perspective.
"InterAction - American Council for Voluntary, Washington D.C. "
http://www.interaction.org/rba/documents.html#intro
This site includes a collection of documents from various agencies on the rights based approach to development.
"Lundberg, P. 2004. ""Decentralized Governance and a Human Rights-based Approach to Development"". UNDP. "
http://www.undp.org/governance/docsdecent/human.doc
"This note is designed as a means of stimulating discussion on the relationship between implementation of decentralization reform and human rights. It contains an overview of critical issues, brief reviews of several recent programmes and attempts to find the links between the theory and practice."
"Theis, J. 2003. ""Rights-based Monitoring and Evaluation - A Discussion Paper."" "
http://seapa.net/external/special/reports/Rightbased.pdf
"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, and objectives and become the basis for monitoring changes at different levels."
"Theis, J. 2004. ""Promoting Rights-Based Approaches: Experiences and Ideas from Asia and the Pacific"". Save the Children. "
http://seapa.net/external/resources/crp.htm
"A collection of experiences from the Asia Pacific region in utilizing a rights based approach to programming. It provides and overview of rights-based approaches, how it is implemented in different situations, and provides some examples. It also has a list of web resources on rights based approaches and some tools that may be useful for analysis, planning and monitoring and evaluating."
"Tomas, A. August 2003 ""Human Rights-based Approach to Development - A Primer for Development Practitioners,"" (Draft), UNDP. "
http://www.crin.org/docs/resources/publications/hrbap/RBA_training_UNDP_primer.doc
"This document presents a concise overview of (i) what is a 'human rights approach to development' (ii) how it has evolved over the past two decades (iii) what is its value added to development practice, and (iv) how to apply it in development programming. The objective of this document is to present the human rights approach in simple terms for introductory purposes."
"Toope, S. J. 1997. ""Programming in Legal and Judicial Reform: An Analytical Framework for CIDA Engagement."" "
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/INET/IMAGES.NSF/vLUImages/HRDG/$file/ProRefJur-e.pdf
"Discusses the Canadian International Development Agency's (CIDA) engagement with legal and judicial reform programming through its commitment to the promotion and protection of equal human rights and democratic processes of government, based upon such principles as transparency, accountability and public participation."
"United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF). 2001. ""Operationalization for ESARO of UNICEF Global Guidelines for Human Rights Programming."" Nairobi, UNICEF Regional Office (ESARO)."
"This document looks at the programme implications of adopting a human rights approach. In particular, it looks at programming implications for UNICEF - focusing on the rights of women and children, human rights in humanitarian emergencies, examines good programming experiences and promotes capacity development of communities."
"van Weerelt, P. ""A Human Rights-based Approach to Decentralized Governance: Some Key Considerations!"" HURIST."
"This paper looks at the linkages between human rights and decentralized governance. It begins by explaining human rights, human development and UNDP's position on decentralized governance. It then explains how to apply human rights to decentralized governance including programme assessment and analysis (causality, obligation and capacity analysis) and also provides a checklist."
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