CRIN - Child Rights Information Network
As CARE International seeks ever more effective ways to work towards eradicating poverty, it has been testing methods of incorporating rightsbased approaches (RBA) into its development programmes. This report and the individual project summaries are an account of some of those innovations and the lessons learned from them. Throughout this report we understand a rightsbased approach to mean a deliberate and explicit focus on enabling people to achieve the minimum conditions for living with dignity – in other words, achieving their human rights.
The review of 16 RBA projects from Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burundi, Cambodia, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Peru, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, and Thailand gives us concrete evidence of what RBA looks like in context and in practice. The structure of this report broadly corresponds to CARE's six programming principles. These are to:
Other important aspects of RBA, such as the use of human rights law and the scaling-up of interventions are also considered.
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