Case Studies
Our Rights, Our Future - Human Rights-Based Approaches in Ireland:Principles, Policies and Practice
Amnesty International.
This document aims to provide a basic framework for understanding and promoting human rights-based approaches in Ireland today. It is designed to assist civil society in influencing key policy-makers and opinion-formers so as to ensure that national policies, law reform and practices are based on human rights.The document applies the human rights framework to the development choices Ireland has made in recent years, incorporating feedback from a range of organisations and individuals. Illustrations are drawn from typical experiences of individuals and groups in Ireland.
Finland and the Human Rights-Based Approach to Development
Final Report, March 2006.
Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland. The Government of Finland adopted a new development policy in 2004 where it committed itself to a rights-based approach, meaning that the realisation of the human rights, as defined by international human rights agreements, is taken as the starting point in Finland’s development policy. This study has been funded by and prepared in collaboration with the funding from the Department for Development Policy of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. The purpose of the study is to support the implementation of the new development policy and to review and analyze what implications the rights-based approach has for the Finnish development co-operation. The study involves two case studies in the projects in Nicaragua and Ethiopia. In addition to the field work, desk studies on policy, programme planning and evaluation documents have been undertaken. Officers of the MFA in the field locations and in the Ministry in Helsinki have been interviewed.
Promoting good Governance through Citizen Participation and Rights-Based Development
This selection of case studies by various African researchers and activists focuses on various sectors in the African context (be it working with refugees, famines, HIV/AIDS, conservation issues, food for work issues, prison reform and so on) where the rights-based approach has been used, with varying results. The case studies are a part of a workshop organised by Participatory Methodologies Forum of Kenya (PAMFORK) - a network under the National Council of NGOs of Kenya made of organizational and individual researchers and practitioners working in partnership to support the innovation of participatory processes to strengthen citizen voice, influence policy making, enhance governance and transform institutions.
Possibilities and Challenges of the Human Rights-Based Approach to Development
By Seppänen Samuli.
What is the added value of human rights in development cooperation? How relevant are human rights to the “bread and butter” issues of development work? Can human rights provide a better blueprint for development than other development issues? The paper examines these questions through a case study on education reforms in Tanzania and Zambia. This discussion paper is the result of five month long research project commissioned by the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Governance hybrids: pro-poor, rights-based approaches in rural Peru
Aaron Schneider and Rebeca Zuniga-Hamlin, February 2005, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, England.
This case study looks at hybrid forms of governance that emerge when rights-based approaches are introduced in conditions of extreme poverty. The authors draws upon rural Peru as an example wherein, in 2002, “ a host of local and national movements, eager to experiment with new RBA alternatives to address intense poverty, produced governance hybrids Putting Rights-Based Development into Context: CARE’s programming Approaches in Malawi and Bangladesh Brigitte Bode, CARE Bangladesh, Jay Goulden, CARE International UK, Elisa Martinez, CARE USA, Francis Lwanda, CARE Malawi, February 2005.
Human Rights-Based Approach to Development in Practice: Some Lessons Learned from the Rights-Based Municipal Assessment and Planning Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Laure-Anne Courdesse, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Sarah Hemingway, Nottingham Human Rights Law Center, February 2005.
The Transformation of the Quality of Life Through Human Rights-Based Approach Community Based Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses
Kamchezdera, Garton, The Government of Malawi, UNICEF, Department for International Development (DFID), May 2003.
Peru Case Study: A Human Rights Approach
UNICEF, March 2002.
Saving Women's Lives: A Call to Rights-Based Action
UNICEF, 2000. Focusing on women in South Asia (Abstract only).
Pathways to Justice: Access to justice with a focus on the poor, women and indigenous peoples in Cambodia
Joint report by UNDP Cambodia and the Cambodian Ministry of Justice, 2005. It recommends better ways of meeting the demand for justice, especially from people at most in need.
Privatisation versus Human Rights: Lessons from the Bolivian Water Revolt
Jim Shultz. Community Law Centre. ESR Review, Vol. 4, No. 4, November 2003.
Avoiding the Dependency Trap: The Roma in Central and Eastern Europe
Regional Human Development Report. United Nations Development Programme, December 2002.
Case studies on access to justice for disadvantaged groups
Developed by the practitioners of the UNDP Asia Pacific Rights and Justice initiative. These case studies provide useful recommendations that could assist practitioners in the design and implementation of future programmes on access to justice.
Linking Decentralization and a Rights-Based Approach: Opportunities and Constraints in Ghana
Gordon Crawford, Center for Development Studies, School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, February 2005.