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Rights-Based Approaches and Human Rights Impact Assessment

Rights-Based Approaches and Human Rights Impact Assessment. Mainstreaming and Indicators, HOM 23-24 November 2006. Three Problems to be Analysed. Does RBA enhance the chances of better HRIA?

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Rights-Based Approaches and Human Rights Impact Assessment

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  1. Rights-Based Approaches and Human Rights Impact Assessment Mainstreaming and Indicators, HOM 23-24 November 2006

  2. Three Problems to be Analysed • Does RBA enhance the chances of better HRIA? • What are the methodologies of human rights mainstreaming in country analysis and in programming? Will RBA lead to mainstreaming? • What promises does the progress in HR indicator formulation entail?

  3. Overview: Main Headings • Defining RBA • What is the main problem with respect to HR Integration of donors (and foreign policy agencies)? • Distinguishing RBA from HRIA • Donor considerations: mainstreaming HR/developing HR Indicators • REflections about HRIA • HR Indicators • Where are we landing?

  4. Main problems of Donor and (Foreign Policy) HR Integration • Uncertainty of HR mainstreaming prevails in dev assistance • A potentially competing agenda: aid effectiveness  more interest in good governance than in HR • HRBA may provide new inspiration, but does it deliver? A re-politization of aid maybe.. But for whom? The UN, INGOs or LONGOs. Main test: the actual benefits for poor or marginalized people

  5. What is a Rights-Based Approach? OHCHR: • Normative basis in HR • Operational: directed towards promotion and protection • Inequalities lie at the heart of developmental problems • Redress discriminatory practices • Transform unjust distributions of power that impede development

  6. Distinguishing RBA and HRIA • RBA represents an approach to programming and to strategies of development • HRIA is an approach to ex ante assessment and evaluation intending to assess implications of interventions  HRIA can be informed by RBA thinking inasmuch as RBA will define particular components of intervention (e.g., duty-bearer accountability, rights-holder claims etc.). The OHCHR emphasis on inequality and non-discrimination may also inspire development of indicators in these fields

  7. Three General Problems of RBA • Do donors endorse RBA? • What are the alternatives to RBA? • What is the value added?

  8. Five Options of Human Rights Integration(Following L-H Piron)

  9. Three Options Model

  10. Reflections about HRIA • One caveat of complexity: The levels of Analysis: • Country analysis • Programme and project analysis • At the country level, impact analysis is complex unless impact is reduced to a measurable target • At the programme, project level, impact analysis is more easy

  11. The Value Added of HRIA 1. A focus on risks: • Complicity in HR Violations, • Risks of Partners: Compromising their safety 2. A focus on context vs operational goals 3. A focus on indicators 4. A focus on Monitoring Results

  12. Indicators – What are the problems? Major advance: OHCHR Report on Compliance: • Structure, Process and Outcome Indicators Major trend: Indicators transformed into targets • A question lurking: Are HR Indicators distinct?

  13. How are Indicators formulated? Theories Concepts/Goals/Rights Specification/ Attribute Indicators Targets Data

  14. Indicators and Targets

  15. Implications of Targeting • Whatever the indicator – the quantified measures count • Who defines the target? • Benchmarking becomes vital • Causes less so • Institutional and organization dimensions might become underplayed

  16. Final Observations • The impact of RBA thinking is as yet uncertain • The donor emphasis on effectiveness of aid may imply less attention to HR mainstreaming • HR indicators: Progress in terms of determining indicators of compliance • Measuring duty-bearer efforts (measuring conduct) still warranted • Existing trend of quantified targets may ensure more systematic use of indicators, but less clarification of substance

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