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Emergency Capacity Building Project

Emergency Capacity Building Project. Emergencies and the Humanitarian System. Rights Based Programming. Definitions of Rights. Every right imposes duties to act or forbear from acting upon others. Morally, those duties fall upon all of us. Legally, they fall largely upon States.

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Emergency Capacity Building Project

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  1. Emergency Capacity Building Project Emergencies and the Humanitarian System

  2. Rights Based Programming

  3. Definitions of Rights • Every right imposes duties to act or forbear from acting upon others. Morally, those duties fall upon all of us. Legally, they fall largely upon States.

  4. Definitions of Human Rights • Human rights identify the minimum conditions for living with dignity. • They apply to all of us equally by virtue of our humanity.

  5. What are Human Rights? Some Distinctions • Rights v. gifts • In terms of entitlement • In terms of duties/responsibilities for others • Rights v. human rights • In terms of universality v. particularity • As conditions for living with dignity. • Who has rights & duties • Morally v. legally

  6. Legal Background of Human Rights Intended to help prevent similar conflict The end of World War II & beginning of the Cold War Protect the state, and require state to protect its citizens Built on the idea of State Sovereignty The accountability issue (e.g. non-state actors) Post Cold War & the sovereignty model The political issue (e.g. the ownership problem). The consent issue (e.g. the right to access.

  7. Distinguishing Rights and Principles

  8. Do Aid Programs Advance Human Rights? 4 types of human rights organizations with missions to… Amnesty International Monitor/advocate for HR National & regional court systems Enforce HR Human Rights Education Associates Educate about HR Work with people to achieve their HR Aid actors

  9. Do Aid Programs Implement Human Rights? • Do your programs seek to help people achieve… • A standard of living adequate for their health and well-being • The right to food • The right to education • The right to shelter • Do they seek to help people achieve the minimum conditions for living with dignity and self-worth?

  10. Distinguishing Needs Base and Rights base Needs Base Rights base • Aid is a right • Impact oriented • Cross-sectoral focus • Addresses root causes • Focus on most marginalized • Is aligned with rights victims. Aid is a charitable gift Output oriented Focus on sector of need Addresses symptoms Focus on easiest to reach Is neutral between oppressor and victim

  11. How Might Rights-Based Programming Add Value? • The Legal Approach • Aims to strengthen assistance work through tying it to the human rights legal regime. Might include: • doing legal advocacy as a part of assistance programming, • monitoring violations and reporting them to legal bodies • The Moral Approach • Aims to strengthen assistance by looking at it through a moral human rights lens: • Focuses on some strengths of good programming • Promotes other strengths that have not received much attention before

  12. Measuring Programs in Human Rights Terms Identifying human rights issues relevant to your work

  13. Six Strengths of Rights Based Programming Confronting C.R.I.M.E.S. Against Humanity • ImprovesCross-sectoralaccountability • Seeks to address Root causesof deprivation • Orients us towardsImpact rather than output • Commits us to serve the most Marginalized • Promotes Equity and social justice • Puts us in Solidarity with the oppressed

  14. Promoting Cross-Sectoral Accountability Needs Met Needs met project by Food Security Needs met project before We measure success as the needs met by the project. Aid is a “gift” and anything given is better than nothing at all. By definition, all recipients are “beneficiaries”.

  15. Promoting Cross-Sectoral Accountability Minimum level of food security for living with dignity Needs met project by Food Security Needs Met Needs not met by Project Needs met project before If we commit to fulfill people’s rights, we become accountable to keep that commitment. Rights bearers are not “beneficiaries” by definition.

  16. Expertise: We know food security, we want to judge our impact in terms of food security. Reputation: This was the sector in which we made commitments to donors and to beneficiaries. We want to show that we lived up to those commitments. Needs Met Food Security Knowledge: We know the baseline from which we started, (through needs assessments etc.) Promoting Cross-Sectoral Accountability What pressures are there to judge success solely within our sector of focus?

  17. Improving Cross-Sectoral Accountability Impact of = Minimum level for living with dignity project Food Security Other rights Health Personal security Education participation Political Sector of focus Cross sectoral impact Needs Met

  18. Addressing Root Causes Symptom Food insecurity Immediate causes Food aid does not reach most needy Military conflict Drought Bulk deliveries are magnets for military theft Inter-ethnic or religious tension Discrimination in food redistribution Natural cause root causes root causes Lack of civil and political rights and freedoms Economic discrimination against certain groups IDPs, widows & orphans are not represented Lack of security protecting food Military need food to fight war

  19. Thinking About Root Causes

  20. Moving Beyond Output to Rights Impact Aid practitioners face pressure to give whatever they can, and measure success based on output. In a rights approach, impact on rights is the only measurement of success that counts. Output Orientation Rights Impact (Using UDHR) How much food was distributed? Do recipients have food “adequate for [their] health and well-being” Art 25. How many children are we educating in how many schools? Is “everyone” being educated in a manner sufficient for the “full development of the human personality”. Art 26 How much did we give in our sector of focus? How did we change the ability of people to live with dignity and self-worth? (Preamble)

  21. Cost per person Less rights, but more expensive & difficult to reach People Reaching the Marginalized More rights & easier to reach

  22. Promoting Equity & Social Justice Aid actor More rights Less rights P O W E R

  23. Aid workers should be politically neutral between warring parties Aid workers should not be neutral between those whose violate rights and those whose rights are violated partisanship partisanship Promoting Solidarity complicity solidarity Rights-based programming reorients aid towards solidarity with rights victims

  24. Challenges Weighing Against Rights Based Programming Foreign connotation Rights-Based Programming Framework Fatigue Legal Connotations Political Connotations

  25. Added Value of Rights Based Programming Pressures in traditional aid model to... Rights-based approach may help us to... • Improve our Cross-sectoral accountability • Address Root causes • Be Impact oriented • Focus on most Marginalized • Focus on Equity & social justice • See ourselves in Solidarity with rights victims. • Focus on sector of need & treat aid as a gift • Address symptoms • Be output oriented • Focus on easiest to reach • Ignore social discrimination • Remain neutral between oppressor and victim

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