1. Course Description: Rights Based Approach to Development
A Rights Based Approach (RBA) to development emphasises the moral foundation that goes
deeper than the ‘on-off’ legal commitments and rights granted by governments and highlights
that every human has rights. RBA is understood to mean a deliberate and explicit focus on
enabling people to achieve the conditions for living with dignity – in other words, achieving
their human rights. A rights based approach is grounded in the UN Declaration on Human
Rights, and is a value-based development approach which works for the inclusion of all people
on ethical grounds, without discrimination, in building a fair, just and non-discriminatory
society.
With this understanding, a rights based approach to development works to increase people’s
access to, and power in, decision making which affects their lives. A central tenet of all rights
based development is the issue of power. Using a “rights lens”, we work on the basis that
poverty is caused by and at the same time contributes to powerlessness. That is, people living
in poverty lack power not only in terms of an inability to obtain and maintain physical assets,
but also in terms of finding it challenging to accrue social capital, to gain information and to be
able to participate fully in society as active citizens.
An RBA also works to strengthen the willingness and readiness of all people – both as ‘rights
holders’ (individuals and groups with valid claims) and as ‘duty bearers’ (State, non-State actors
and other power-holders with correlative obligations) – to take up their responsibilities and to
fulfil their obligations towards each other. The focus is on changing relationships in ways that
ensure that power and responsibility can be shared safely between all stakeholders, building
accountability and encouraging willingness to fulfil obligations.
Applying a human rights-based approach is always a work in progress. There is no set formula
or
past prescriptions. The process must be contextual and participatory. There is value in the very
process itself. Hence, it is important to consider the religious, social, legal and political context
into consideration when designing and implementing Rights Based Programming.
This course is designed to provide the participants with a conceptual framework and contextual
understanding of addressing the strategic importance of Rights Based Approach (RBA) to
development in various governmental, non-governmental and community organizations. The
1. Course Description: Rights Based Approach to Development
A Rights Based Approach (RBA) to development emphasises the moral foundation that goes
deeper than the ‘on-off’ legal commitments and rights granted by governments and highlights
that every human has rights. RBA is understood to mean a deliberate and explicit focus on
enabling people to achieve the conditions for living with dignity – in other words, achieving
their human rights. A rights based approach is grounded in the UN Declaration on Human
Rights, and is a value-based development approach which works for the inclusion of all people
on ethical grounds, without discrimination, in building a fair, just and non-discriminatory
society.
With this understanding, a rights based approach to development works to increase people’s
access to, and power in, decision making which affects their lives. A central tenet of all rights
based development is the issue of power. Using a “rights lens”, we work on the basis that
poverty is caused by and at the same time contributes to powerlessness. That is, people living
in poverty lack power not only in terms of an inability to obtain and maintain physical assets,
but also in terms of finding it challenging to accrue social capital, to gain information and to be
able to participate fully in society as active citizens.
An RBA also works to strengthen the willingness and readiness of all people – both as ‘rights
holders’ (individuals and groups with valid claims) and as ‘duty bearers’ (State, non-State actors
and other power-holders with correlative obligations) – to take up their responsibilities and to
fulfil their obligations towards each other. The focus is on changing relationships in ways that
ensure that power and responsibility can be shared safely between all stakeholders, building
accountability and encouraging willingness to fulfil obligations.
Applying a human rights-based approach is always a work in progress. There is no set formula
or
past prescriptions. The process must be contextual and participatory. There is value in the very
process itself. Hence, it is important to consider the religious, social, legal and political context
into consideration when designing and implementing Rights Based Programming.
This course is designed to provide the participants with a conceptual framework and contextual
understanding of addressing the strategic importance of Rights Based Approach (RBA) to
development in various governmental, non-governmental and community organizations. The
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