HOW DO HUMAN RIGHTS

CHANGE AN NGO’S DRIVING FORCE

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs Maxwell School of Citizenship

Syracuse – 3rd March 2010

Ricardo Gomez-AgnoliPlan International

• NGO’s traditional driving forces1. Impact on people’s lives

» Effects of poverty on people» Empowerment –project driven-

2. Sustainability3. Coverage – scaling up -

• NGO’s RBA driving forces1. Impact on people’s rights

» Causes of poverty -structural causes-» Citizenship –rights driven-

2. Democracy all the people, all the time

3. Rule of law all the rights» Exercise of Rights

HOW DO HUMAN RIGHTS CHANGE AN NGO’S DRIVING FORCE

- NGO’s DRIVING FORCES -

• A historical bottleneck: Good laws not applied, no participative public policies along with reduced budgets

• Strengthen rule of law via: Good governance, citizenship, democratic processes and systems

- Rights Proactive Conflictive

. Rights ……………………………… Universal Personal

… Laws …………………………………… Consensus Partisan

…. Policies ………………………………… Agreed Imposed

….. Budgets ………………………..……… Participative Unilateral

…… Services ……………………………… Monitoring RBA* Audits

……. Exercise of Rights.......................... All the rights to all Inequitable

- Necessities

* Rights Based Monitoring and Evaluation to strengthen the Exercise of Rights

Two traditional models of Human Development:

Sustainable

+ Participation -

Transitory

HOW DO HUMAN RIGHTS CHANGE AN NGO’S DRIVING FORCE

- THE CHALLENGE: RIGHTS OR NEEDS -

PARTICIPAR

POWER

GOVERNMENT

CITIZEN

FORCE

D E M O C R A C Y

P E O P L E P A R T I C I P A T I O N

COLLECTIVE

ACTION

EXERCISE OF RIGHTS

HOW DO HUMAN RIGHTS CHANGE AN NGO’S DRIVING FORCE

- THE HUMAN RIGHTS TEMPLE -

D E M O C R A C Y

D E M O C R A C Y H U M A N R I G H T S

Mercy Corps

CITIZENSGOVERNMENT

PRIVATE SECTOR

HOW DO HUMAN RIGHTS CHANGE AN NGO’S DRIVING FORCE

- POWER ANALYSIS - GUATEMALA -

NGO SECTOR

- INTERNAT.

- NATIONAL

SECULAR RELIGIOUS

PLAN W VisionCommittee of. Religious NGO

Service P Service P NGO’s NGO’s

B M Gates

Castillo C Protestant

Evangelical

D E M O C R A C Y

D E M O C R A C Y

GOVERNMENT

UN

NGO’s

CITIZENS

H U M A N R I G H T S

PRIVATE SECTOR

HOW DO HUMAN RIGHTS CHANGE AN NGO’S DRIVING FORCE

- POWER ANALYSIS - VISION -

Community

Local Government

Country

International

Family

Children

CMT

CO

PUM - TM

Facilitador

CD

HOW DO HUMAN RIGHTS CHANGE AN NGO’S DRIVING FORCE

- NGO HR STRUCTURE FOLLOWS RBA STRATEGY -

PARTICIPAR

POWER

GOVERNMENT

CITIZEN

FORCE

D E M O C R A C Y

P E O P L E P A R T I C I P A T I O N

COLLECTIVE

ACTION

EXERCISE OF RIGHTS

HOW DO HUMAN RIGHTS CHANGE AN NGO’S DRIVING FORCE

- THE HUMAN RIGHTS TEMPLE -

Government (state institutions) has primary responsibility– NGO alignment (Paris Declaration Aid Effectiveness) and join forces– NGOs move away from service / product delivery – support state delivery of

social services

NGOs’ primary responsibility is to support strengthening citizens- Support citizens and social movements to know, claim and exercise their rights

NGOs’ need to apply RBA internally and its workforce needs to model RBA –from employees to citizens-

HOW DO HUMAN RIGHTS CHANGE AN NGO’S DRIVING FORCE

- Consequences for NGO Strategy -