This presentation provides an overview of the Right Based Approach

1. Rights Based Approach
Khalid Saifullah

2. Relevant Terms
• What is Poverty?
• What are the reasons of Poverty?
• What are the characteristics of Poverty?
• What is Approach?
• What is Development?
• What are Development Approaches?

3. What is Rights Based Approach?
• A conceptual framework for the process of
human development
• Based on international human rights
standards
• Operationally directed to promote and
protect human rights.

4. Rights Based Approach
• Identifies Rights Holders and their entitlements
• Identifies Duty Bearers and their obligations
• Give rise to legal obligation on the parts of others
• State is primary responsible while other states
and non-State actors are responsible to
contribute
• Works towards strengthening the capacities of
rights holders to make their claims and of duty
bearers to meet their obligations

5. RBA
• Focus on the realization of the rights of excluded
and marginalized
• It considers family, community, civil society and
national authorities in holistic view
• International Instrument
• Participation of poor in the formulation,
implementation and monitoring of programs
• Transparency and Accountability
• Ownership and Sustainability
• Gender Mainstreaming

6. RBA
• Analyze inequalities which lie at the heart of
development problems
• Redress discriminatory practices
• Potential to empower people- especially the
most marginalized - to participate in policy
formulation and hold accountable those who
have a duty to act
• Adds legitimacy to demand for poverty
reduction

7. Core Principals of RBA
• Participation
• Accountability
• Transparency
• State responsibility