Human rights are certain guarantees and freedoms which people around the world must have to enjoy their lives with dignity. In the recent years, the idea of development with human rights as the centre point has taken a new found group of supporters such as multinational NGOs, activist groups, few governments, UN etc.
A human rights based approach is about empowering people to know and claim their rights and increasing the ability and accountability of individuals and institutions who are responsible for respecting, protecting and fulfilling them.
This means giving people more avenues to participate in shaping the decisions that impact their rights. It also means increasing the capacity of those with the responsibility for fulfilling rights …show more content…
This may include a specific provision for participatory monitoring throughout the whole process. Other aspects that can be included here is the need for strengthening participatory data collection leading to using the collected data for better policy initiatives. As the processes at the beginning are participatory, the inbuilt justice component, monitoring and evaluation parameters can be weaved seamlessly in the whole process. Human rights awareness and grievance redressal mechanisms can be set up as part of development projects, to provide a transparent and constructive means resolving …show more content…
These interventions have ranged for long term-multi nation approaches to short term-localised interventions. In addition to that, several philanthropic organisations and individuals have also tried to mitigate this imbalance in this unfair world. Thus, we have had a plethora of interventions ranging from philanthropic to needs based, jumping to participatory, human rights and even referendum based. The relevance of human rights based approach lies in the way it inculcates the feeling of self belief, rights, duties and responsibility towards the concerned development intervention. More so, it tries to make all the future transactions between the rule bearers and the individuals/groups, a demand based
A human rights based approach is about empowering people to know and claim their rights and increasing the ability and accountability of individuals and institutions who are responsible for respecting, protecting and fulfilling them.
This means giving people more avenues to participate in shaping the decisions that impact their rights. It also means increasing the capacity of those with the responsibility for fulfilling rights …show more content…
This may include a specific provision for participatory monitoring throughout the whole process. Other aspects that can be included here is the need for strengthening participatory data collection leading to using the collected data for better policy initiatives. As the processes at the beginning are participatory, the inbuilt justice component, monitoring and evaluation parameters can be weaved seamlessly in the whole process. Human rights awareness and grievance redressal mechanisms can be set up as part of development projects, to provide a transparent and constructive means resolving …show more content…
These interventions have ranged for long term-multi nation approaches to short term-localised interventions. In addition to that, several philanthropic organisations and individuals have also tried to mitigate this imbalance in this unfair world. Thus, we have had a plethora of interventions ranging from philanthropic to needs based, jumping to participatory, human rights and even referendum based. The relevance of human rights based approach lies in the way it inculcates the feeling of self belief, rights, duties and responsibility towards the concerned development intervention. More so, it tries to make all the future transactions between the rule bearers and the individuals/groups, a demand based