Rights-Based Approach to Development (RBA)

The following web sites and list-serves provide a wealth of documents, links, and information related to the rights-based approach to development. Views expressed on these external sites do not necessarily reflect those of InterAction or its member organizations.

Web sites:

• Europe's Forum on International Cooperation: Focus on Human Rights, a presentation of resources on human rights from a European perspective
• Women's Human Rights Net, a project of the Association for Women's Rights in Development
• CARE International UK, RBA Resource Centre
• People's Movement for Human Rights Education: a site dedicated to human rights learning for social and economic change
• Dignity International: Development & Human Rights
• François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights: Working Papers
• HRI: An Introduction to Human Rights and Development
• Overseas Development Institute (ODI): Rights in Action
• Save the Children / Southeast, East Asia and Pacific Region: Special Reports
• UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR): Resource Database on Rights-based Approaches to Development for Development Practitioners in Asia-Pacific

Listservs:

• Dignity International Monthly Newsletter
  Dignity International hosts a monthly news bulletin on human rights with a special attention to economic, social, and cultural rights. 
• ABA-SILP Human Rights Committee
  Weekly newsletter published by the American Bar Association's SILP Human Rights Committee. This newsletter provides an information forum for human rights attorneys, educators, and activists.
• Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)
• International Network on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net)
• Child Rights Information Network--RBA Listserv
  As a relatively new approach to programming, there has been considerable interest in the wider development community in exchanging information on lessons learnt in the introduction of rights-based approaches and on the emergence of new directions in this work. However, up to now, access to such information has been largely dependent on personal contacts and/or organisational links to an agency that has been taking forward rights-based approaches.

  CRIN will therefore aim to significantly improve this situation by creating an easily accessible, global focal point for the collection and dissemination of information on rights-based approaches to programming. Examples of the kind of resources CRIN is considering making available on the site include:
  
  - Training and resource materials in rights-based approaches
  - Tools for rights-based situation analysis, programme design, implementation and monitoring and evaluation.
  - Rights-based frameworks for programme areas such as education, HIV/AIDS and emergency relief, as well as activities such as the development of Common Country Assessments [CCAs] and Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers [PRSP]
  - Experiences and 'best practice' case studies of rights-based approaches in practice
  - Discussion of rights-based approaches to such issues as children's participation, advocacy, budget analysis and non-discrimination.
  - A calendar of activities, including training events, conferences and workshops.
  - Links to other relevant sites
  - Contact information for organisations.
  - Discussion forums or newsgroups and email lists; which are archived and retrievable.

  A new CRINMAIL on Rights-Based Programming will be sent out on a monthly basis to keep you informed of progress, and once the site is launched, around July this year, the CRINMAIL will be a source of news on rights-based programming. The first edition of this CRINMAIL is expected to be sent out at the end of March. To subscribe to the new list, send an email to: crin_rights_programming@domeus.co.uk; or visit: http://www.crin.org/email/index.asp.