One size does not fit all

One size does not fit all
• The RBSs adopted will depend on the characteristics of the
organisation, its values, its constituents, and the countries it
works in.
• Adopting RBSs is likely to require new ways of working –
advocacy, increased participation, media.
• It may require new skills and ideas by recruiting new staff and
building additional competencies amongst existing staff and
partners.
• Changes to organisation’s structures, processes and
outcomes and culture.
• Agreement on new standards for programmes and
organisation and the systems for applying them.
• Development of new tools for analysis, planning,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
• Development of a set of values on human rights standards
which create the bed-rock for everything the organisation does
and for the way it works.
Source: Theis, 2004, Promoting Rights-Based Approaches, SCF-UK

Oxfam GB
Oxfam adopted five strategic change
objectives that draw on human rights and
international humanitarian law:
• Right to a sustainable livelihood (with a
focus on trade)
• Right to health and education
• Right to life and security (emergencies)
• Right to be heard (civil rights)
• Right to equity (especially gender equity)

ActionAid
ActionAid decided to seek ways to support
people to organise themselves to demand
their rights.
Country offices now develop their own
strategies based on local priorities and
locally identified rights.

Save the Children UK
With the support and input from several
consultants, SCUK developed its understanding
of child-rights programming.
It took several years of meeting, trainings, booklets
and experimenting to clearly define SCUK’s
approach.
Some programmes work with NHRIs and activist
organisations; some take a narrower technical
approach and focus on specific sectors.