Human Rights-Based Approaches to Programming

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Programming for Justice: Access for All: 17.8.2011; A Practitioner's Guide to a Human Rights-Based Approach to Access to Justice.
So You Want To Consult With Children – A Toolkit of Good Practice: 20.7.2011; This toolkit is a handy guide and reference book for participants and others wanting to develop CRP tools and staff capacity for integrating CRP into their programmes both now and in the future.
Bringing up Children in a Changing World: Who’s Right? Whose Rights?: 19.7.2011; This study of child rearing beliefs, goals and practices in Nepal uses children’s rights as a framework for analysing the realities of children's lives.
TRANSPARENCY: Publishing What We Learned: 21.4.2010; This report discusses the origins and evolution of PWYP from 2002 to 2007. It also assesses the effectiveness of PWYP’s advocacy and policy initiatives and examines how the Coalition has operated internationally. In this sense, the report is not only a narrative of PWYP’s history and accomplishments, but a practical tool to shine a light on the strengths and challenges which face a global civil society coalition.
Reader on Children and Rights Based Programming No. 5: 5.6.2009; The reader contains selected resources about children and rights-based approaches to programming. This includes basic texts, legal instruments, best practice documents, policy and advocacy documents, monitoring and reporting tools, training material and websites. Further resources are available on the rights-based programming website www.therightsapproach.org.
First Steps: A Manual for Starting Human Rights Education: 11.12.2006; The Manual is directed towards teachers with little or no experience in teaching human rights.
Children and Young People Participating in PRSP Processes – Lessons from Save the Children’s Experience: 29.8.2006; This paper outlines Save the Children’s
experience in facilitating children and young
people’s participation in PRSP processes,
arguing that they can make a significant
contribution within this vehicle to developing
effective strategies to tackle poverty.
Principles into Practice: Learning from Innovative Rights Based Programming: 12.10.2005; In 2004, CIUK invited CARE country offices around the world to submit examples of work which charted their attempts to incorporate a rights-based approach. This initiative specifically sought to gain insights into a number of aspects of what it means to apply “a rights lens” in practice.
Think of Me, Think of You: An Anti-Discrimination Training Resource for Young People by Young People: 21.9.2005; This guide is a resource designed and developed to help people think about some aspects of cultural diversity and children’s rights.
Practice Standards in Children's Participation: 21.9.2005; The primary purpose of these practice standards is to ensure consistent, high quality child participation practice throughout Save the Children’s programmes.
The Human Rights-Based Approach to Development: the Right to Water: 8.9.2005; This article identifies the practical implications and added value of rights-based approaches to water.
Different Approaches to Rights-Based Programming: 6.9.2005; Explores some of the reasons that there are differences in approach beyond some of the agreed fundamentals of rights-based programming.
Relatório sobre a situaçao dos direitos da criança e do adolescente no Brasil: 30.8.2005; O objetivo do informe é apresentar à sociedade brasileira e, em especial, aos movimentos de defesa da criança e do adolescente os avanços e retrocessos da situaçao infanto-adolescente e juvenil do País, nesses últimos 10 anos.
Experiences with Supporting and Cooperating with Independent Institutions Protecting Children's Rights: 30.8.2005; Through this report, Save the Children Norway wants to present an overview of these activities in the relevant programme countries. The report draws general conclusions on experiences and lessons learned and proposes action points for further work.
Asi que quiere hacer participar a los niños y niñas en la investigacion?: 23.8.2005; Paquete de herramientas para apoyar la participation significativa y ética de los niños y niñas en la investigación relativa a la violencia contra los niños y niñas.
Children's Rights and Children Affected by Aids, Orphans, and Programming In China: 16.8.2005; This paper discusses the initiation of a project in central China through the use of children’s research as a foundation for understanding children’s perspectives, problems and issues.
Understanding and Evaluating Children's Participation: 16.8.2005; This review of contemporary literature examines current approaches to the evaluation of children's participation in development.
A Guide to International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law: 9.8.2005; This publication serves as a quick reference guide for those involved in researching, promoting and protecting the rights of children affected by armed conflict.
A World Fit for us ... Children: 2.8.2005; African children organisations’ report of accountability on the promises governments have made to them.
Diversity/non-discrimination primer: 2.8.2005; The aim of this primer is to provide a basic introduction to issues of diversity/non- discrimination in Save the Children. It also outlines a common framework for promoting diversity/non-discrimination in all areas of SC UK policy and programmes.
Gender Guidelines for Child Rights Programming: 2.8.2005; Guidelines designed for use by practitioners to promote equity and justice among girls and boys and the communities in which they live.
Child Rights Programming Handbook: 28.7.2005; Updated second edition of the handbook produced by Save the Children's Child Rights Programming Co-ordinating Group.
Reader on Children and HIV/AIDS No. 4: 21.7.2005; This reader contains selected resources relating to children and HIV/AIDS. This includes basic texts that provide an overview on how HIV/AIDS affects children; key legal instruments for HIV/AIDS; best practice documents by thematic areas; and key resources for child rights and HIV/AIDS.
To Claim our Rights: Livelihood Security, Human Rights and Sustainable Development: 21.6.2005; This paper explores the potential contribution of a human rights perspective to the development of policies and programmes that strengthen the sustainability of poor people’s assets and livelihood security.
Young Africans: Realising the Rights of Children and Youth: 21.6.2005; Young Africa provides a new framework for approaching the entirety of child rights, with far-reaching implications for policies.
More than words? Action for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Africa: 25.5.2005; Intended to inform and challenge, More than words? is a qualitative investigation of how far the rights and needs of orphans and vulnerable children are being met in four of the worst-affected countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Rights-Based Programming: CRIN Newsletter 18: 24.5.2005; CRIN Newsletter 18 and its accompanying CD Rom aim to complement the website by offering an introduction to rights based programming.
RBA Learning Process Research Framework: 18.5.2005; Background notes and methodology for the RBA Group's research project on rights-based programming.
Report to DFID: Rights-Based Approach Evaluation, Learning and Resources: 18.5.2005; The UK inter-agency group on RBA (“the inter- agency group”) initiated a joint learning process to explore the fundamental assumption that underlies our commitment to addressing rights through our work: Implementing rights based approaches (RBA) increases our program impact, and we can demonstrate that impact.
Inter-agency Group on RBA Report on Preparation Workshops: 18.5.2005; Malawi, February. 21st – 26th 2005 Bangladesh, March 28TH – April 2nd 2005
Sitio Web: El Mundo de Dina: 10.5.2005; El Mundo de Dina ofrece la oportunidad a miles de niños y niñas de América Latina la posibilidad de conocerla y aprenderla mientras se divierten.
What's the Difference? Implications of a Child-Focus in Rights-Based Programming: 28.4.2005; This Discussion Paper, written for Save the Children UK by Gerison Lansdown, seeks to highlight some of these challenges that need to be addressed in applying rights-based approaches to work with children.
Benchmarking Progress in Adopting and Implementing Rights-Based Approaches: 28.4.2005; This report, written by Gerison Lansdown, examines the progress made by members of the International Save the Children Alliance in adopting and implementing its distinctive approach to rights-based programming with children.
Human Rights as an Emerging Development Paradigmand some implications for Programme Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation: 1.4.2005; This article looks at rights from a variety of viewpoints: as a goal; as a goal monitoring system; as part of programme planning; and as the driver of monitoring and evaluation activities.
Access for All – Helping to Make Participatory Processes Accessible for Everyone: 14.3.2005; The handbook describes common obstacles to rights-based approaches, and how to overcome them with specific procedures and planning
LIEN: Haut-Commissariat des Nations Unies aux droits de l'homme: 12.3.2005; Ce website contienne toutes les Conventions relatives aux droits de l'homme, de l'information sur les organes des droits de l'homme, et sur le droit internationale.
LINK: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: 12.3.2005; This link contains all UN Conventions, information about Human Rights Bodies and International Law.
COMPASS: manuel pour la pratique de l'éducation aux droits de l'homme avec les jeunes: 12.3.2005; Un manuel pour la pratique de l'éducation aux droits de l'homme avec les jeunes.
Rights in Exile: Janus-Faced Humanitarianism: 12.3.2005; Rights in Exile exposes the gap between human rights norms and the mandates of international organisations, on the one hand, and the reality on the ground.
Veinticinco Preguntas y Respuestas sobre Salud y Derechos Humanos: 12.3.2005; Se da respuesta a preguntas clave que indagan sobre la relación entre los diversos aspectos de la salud y los derechos humanos.
25 Questions Réponses sur la Santé et les Droits Humains: 12.3.2005; Cette publication suggére des réponses aux questions clés relatives aux liens entre les différents aspects de la santé et des droits humains.
HRE PACK: Human Rights Education Pack: 12.3.2005; One of the main goals of this HRE PACK, New Edition, is to provide informative, tested activities for teaching human rights education, for both formal and non-formal education audiences.
Manual on Rights-Based Education: Global Human Rights Requirements Made Simple: 12.3.2005; The aim of this manual is to provide an easily- referenced, one-stop guide to rights-based education.
Small Voices, Big Concerns: A Child Rights Approach to HIV/AIDS: 12.3.2005; This guide is intended to assist EC officials and other policy makers in taking a child rights approach.
State of the World's Children 2005: Childhood Under Threat: 12.3.2005; The report examines three of the most widespread and devastating factors threatening childhood today: HIV/AIDS, conflict, and poverty.
25 Questions and Answers on Health and Human Rights: 12.3.2005; Also available in French and Spanish.
The Practical Guide: 12.3.2005; The Practical Guide is unique in providing a concise and simply-worded guide to the World Trade Organization (WTO), from a human rights perspective.
What is the Rights Based Approach All About? Perspectives from International Development Agencies: 12.3.2005; This paper seeks to unravel some of the tangled threads of contemporary rights talk.
Partners in Progress: Human Rights Reform and Implementation: 12.3.2005; The publication presents a election of DCHR partners, who have been interviewed by local journalists about the joint projects and their cooperation with DCHR.
Glosario de términos relativos a los derechos humanos: 12.3.2005
Preguntas y respuestas: 12.3.2005
¿Cómo se hacen las programaciones basadas en los derechos humanos?: 12.3.2005; Introducción a aspectos prácticos del trabajo realizado con un enfoque basado en los derechos humanos, con un ejemplo tomado de Save the Children.
Reconocimiento de los derechos humanos como parte del desarrollo humano: 12.3.2005; Aquí se explica de qué modo los derechos humanos han sido incorporados paulatinamente en las prácticas del desarrollo.
Creación de un marco internacional de trabajo con los derechos humanos: 12.3.2005; Aquí se explica de qué modo los instrumentos internacionales relativos a los derechos humanos son un importante reforzador de las programaciones basadas en los derechos humanos.
Diferentes enfoques de las programaciones basadas en los derechos humanos: 12.3.2005; Exploración de algunas de las razones por las que hay diferencias en los planteamientos que van más allá de los aspectos fundamentales consensuados de las programaciones basadas en los derechos humanos.
Herramientas y recursos de capacitación para programaciones basadas en los derechos humanos: 12.3.2005; Aquí se facilita un punto de entrada al creciente número de recursos de capacitación y conjuntos de herramientas, como guía para los practicantes en el terreno.
¿Qué es un planteamiento de las programaciones basado en los derechos humanos?: 12.3.2005; Introducción a las principales características de los planteamientos basados en los derechos humanos
Qu’est-ce qu’une approche de la programmation basée sur les droits de l’homme ?: 12.3.2005; Présente les principales caractéristiques des approches basées sur les droits de l’homme.
Comment mener une programmation basée sur les droits ?: 12.3.2005; Présente certains des aspects pratiques liés à l’utilisation d’une approche basée sur les droits en se fondant sur un exemple provenant de Save the Children.
Reconnaissance des droits comme partie intégrante du développement humain: 12.3.2005; Décrit la manière dont les droits de l’homme ont été progressivement intégrés aux pratiques en matière de développement.
Création d’un cadre international pour les droits de l’homme: 12.3.2005; Explique pourquoi les instruments internationaux relatifs aux droits de l’homme sont d’importants piliers pour étayer la programmation basée sur les droits.
Différentes approches de la programmation basée sur les droits: 12.3.2005; Aborde quelques unes des raisons qui expliquent les différences d’approche au-delà de certains des principes fondamentaux de la programmation basée sur les droits.
Outils et manuels de formation relatifs à la programmation basée sur les droits : par où commencer: 12.3.2005; Constitue un point de départ pour l’exploration de la masse croissante d’outils et de ressources de formation conçus pour guider les praticiens.
CARE RBA Rating Scale: 12.3.2005; This tool, developed by CARE, is an aid to measuring the level of RBA content and its effectiveness in their work.
Rights-Based Approach Evaluation, Learning and Resources: 12.3.2005; The inter-agency group seeks to know to what extent rights-based approaches (RBA) to development programming constitute an effective way to address poverty reduction , livelihood insecurity, social injustice, exploitation and abuse. This proposal outlines the research to be undertaken.
Human Rights and HIV/AIDS in the Context of 3 by 5: Time for New Directions?: 12.3.2005; The author describes the challenges that remain in implementing a human rights approach to HIV/ AIDS.
Promoting Rights-Based Approaches: Experiences and Ideas from Asia and the Pacific: 12.3.2005; Save the Children has promoted rights-based approaches through training workshops, programme reviews, discussions, documents and practical programme experimentation. All of this work is based on a firm commitment to human rights and the fundamental principles of universality, indivisibility, accountability and participation.
Rights-Based Monitoring and Evaluation: 12.3.2005; 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.
Supporting Children's Meaningful and Ethical Participation: A Toolkit Produced for the UN Study on Violence Against Children: 12.3.2005; This toolkit is Save the Children’s first contribution to the UN Study on Violence Against Children. It is designed to encourage and inspire all those interested in children’s participation in the Study and its two components are intended to be of practical help to anyone involving children in research or consultations.
An Introduction to the Concept of Rights-Based Approach to Development: A Paper for Interaction: 12.3.2005; This paper aims to clarify the origins of the rights-based approach to development (RBA), propose a working deﬁnition of human rights- based programming in development.
COMPASS: A Manual on Human Rights Education with Young People: 12.3.2005; Compass is an online manual on human rights education with young people. The manual is central to the Human Rights Education Youth Programme piloted by the Directorate of Youth and Sport of the Council of Europe.
Children’s Budgets / Budgetary Analysis: 12.3.2005; This guide explores the implications of state budget allocations for children.
Human Rights and Development: 12.3.2005; By advocating a rights-based approach to development, Uvin shows how practitioners can surmount the tough ethical and human rights obstacles encountered in their endeavours.
Human Rights Education: Effective Practices for Learning, Action and Change: 12.3.2005; The Human Rights Education handbook is a tool to assist those interested in promoting human rights to become effective educators.
The New HURIST, UNDP: 12.3.2005; This report outlines in detail the progress of HURIST (Human Rights Strengthening) so far in supporting UNDP's human rights programme and explains changes to the programme in its second stage.
An Introduction to Child Rights Programming: 12.3.2005; The example of child rights programming in this document is widely applicable to other areas of programming with appropriate modification.
A Rights-Based Approach to Development: What the Policy Documents of the UN, Development Cooperation and NGO Agencies Say: 12.3.2005; This document summarises how a selection of development cooperation agencies, UN Agencies and NGOs active in Asia define the rights-based approach to development, why they have adopted their policy and how they have incorporated it into their programmes
United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. Day of Discussion: Implementing Child Rights in Early Childhood - Recommendations: 12.3.2005; The report gives recommendations to States on how to apply the articles of the Convention of the Rights of the Child in practice to early childhood development.
HIV/ AIDS and Human Rights International Guidelines. Guideline 6: “Access to Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support”: 12.3.2005; This guideline aims to help States to design policy and practice to ensure respect for human rights. It is a revised version of Guideline 6 on “Access to prevention, treatment, care and support” adopted in 1998 by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
The Creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: 12.3.2005; This paper charts the evolution of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (the UDHR) since its creation in 1948.
An Introduction to Child Rights Programming – Concept and Application: 12.3.2005; These guidelines demonstrate some of the practical implications of adopting a rights– based approach to programming work with children.
Growing the Sheltering Tree – Protecting the Rights through Humanitarian Action, Interagency Standing Committee: 12.3.2005; Growing the Sheltering Tree focuses on risky situations - explaining what rights-based strategies can be employed by those working in such conditions, so they can protect those under threat.
Human Development Report 2000 ch. 2: 12.3.2005; The UNDP’s Human Development Report 2000 is a key text in rights–based approaches to development, providing both conceptual and inspirational guidance to development practitioners.
Human Development Report 2000 ch.1: 12.3.2005; The UNDP’s Human Development Report 2000 is a key text in rights–based approaches to development, providing both conceptual and inspirational guidance to development practitioners.
Integrating Human Rights with Sustainable Human Development: 12.3.2005; Drawing on the relationship between human rights and sustainable human development, the document outlines three areas for UNDP action.
Status of Ratifications: 12.3.2005; This document lists the status of ratifications of the principal international human rights treaties. As of May 2003, all 189 Member States of the United Nations and 4 non– Member States were a party to one or more of these treaties.
Child Impact Assessments: Swedish Experience of Child Impact Analyses as a Tool for Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: 12.3.2005; This publication is about Swedish attempts to translate the principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child into practice.
History of Universal Human Rights – up to WW2: 12.3.2005; The article charts the evolution of human rights, arguing that they are essentially a product of seventeenth and eighteenth century European thought.
Worldwide Influence of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Bill of Rights: 12.3.2005; This article describes the content and assesses the significance of each of the main conventions and convenants that together compose the International Bill of Rights.
A Human Rights Approach to Development: Primer for Development Practitioners: 12.3.2005; This document aims to concisely present the human rights approach in simple terms, for introductory purposes. It emphasises that the human rights approach does not discard previous development approaches, but builds on them.
Development and Human Rights: 12.3.2005; This is a critique of some of the typical ways in which human rights have made their way into the development agenda. The document includes a response by Hugo Slim entitled "Making Moral Low Ground: Rights as the Struggle for Justice and the Abolition of Development".
So you Want to Involve Children in Research?: 12.3.2005; This toolkit is a handy guide and reference book for participants and others wanting to develop CRP tools and staff capacity for integrating CRP into their programmes both now and in the future.
Children and Participation: Research, Monitoring and Evaluation with Children and Young People: 12.3.2005; This briefing is about using participation in information gathering during research, monitoring and evaluation with children and young people.
ODI Briefing Paper: The Work of Amartya Sen: 12.3.2005; This Briefing Paper reviews the ways in which Nobel Prize winning economist Professor Amartya Sen has focused international attention on the significance of fundamental human freedoms and human rights for development theory and practice.
What's Behind the Budget? Politics, Rights and Accountability in the Budget Process: 12.3.2005; This paper provides a basic guide to budget processes and related aspects of public expenditure management.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Women's Rights: 12.3.2005; Through a collection of testimonies from men and women around the world, this book explores how women's rights have really changed in the last decade.
A Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities: 12.3.2005; This draft on human responsibilities is an attempt to find a balance between freedom and responsibility in human rights.
Rights–Based Approach to Development Programming: Training Manual: 12.3.2005; This document draws lessons from training workshops given to strengthen the competence of UN staff in the Philippines in rights-based approaches.
Training Manual on Child Rights Programming: 12.3.2005; This manual sets out a four-day training session on child rights programming. It offers a theoretical background and gives practical tips for presenting.
The Human Rights Framework for Development: Seven Approaches: 12.3.2005; Marks identifies seven main ways in which human rights can be applied to human development and defines a series of steps from translating human rights theory to development practice.

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