INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PLANNING TOOL FOR A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT WITH HUMAN FACE: HRBA - RBM - OM

Programming for Results through a Human Rights Lens

1Dr. Joseph FoumbiStrategic Planning Consultant

RESULTS BASED PROGRAMME PLANNING & MANAGEMENT

(RBM/OM)

Human Rights Based

Approach (HRBA)/ TDA

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The “WHAT”• Substance: CHANGE• Guiding principles• Policies

The “HOW”• Methods• Procedures

• Strategic

Intent

Programme• Logic• Tools• Processes

HRBA: Human Rights-Based Approach

TDA: Transformational Development Approach

RBM: Result-Based Management

OM: Outcomes Mapping

UN Decisions on HRBA

1. All programmes of development cooperation, policies and technical assistance should further the realisation of human rights as laid down in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments.

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UN Decisions on HRBA (Cont)

2. Human rights standards contained in, the principles derived from, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments should guide all development cooperation and programming in all sectors and in all phases of the programming process.

3. Development cooperation should contribute to the development of capacities of ‘duty-bearers’ to meet their obligations and/or ‘rights-holders’ to claim their rights.

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Human rights (HR)• Human rights can be described, practically, as

needs-based entitlements that every human should enjoy

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Practical HRBA Definitions and Concepts

Needs Versus Rights

1. Matter of choice/ charity 1. Matter of of obligation/duty

NEEDS RIGHTS

2. Contextual/situational 2. Universal

3. Can be prioritized 3. Are indivisible / A package

4. Are met 4. Are progressively realized

5. All needs are not necessarily rights

5. All rights are based on needs

Human rights (HR)• Human rights can be described, practically, as

needs-based entitlements that every human should enjoy

HR principles• Human rights principles relate to how every

person must be treated and how decisions and actions that affect people must be taken.

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Practical HRBA Definitions and Concepts

Human rights (HR)• Human rights can be described, practically, as needs-

based entitlements that every human should enjoy

HR principles• Human rights principles relate to how every person

must be treated and how decisions and actions that affect people must be taken.

HR Approach• Development approaches, which focus on HR and on

the performance of correlative duties in order to be realized

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Practical HRBA Definitions and Concepts

Unfulfilled People’s Rights

Claims (RH)

DB Capacity

Gaps

Duties (DB)

Strengthen Capacities:Capacity Assessment; Technical, material and

financial

Plan:Stakeholder Analysis; SuNational PlanningArticulate:

AdvocacySocial Mobilization

Policy Dialogue

Identify:Situation Analysis

Monitoring

Declaration (Moral Obligation)Covenants (Binding)

Conventions (Binding)

HRBA: A Stepwise Approach

Capacity Development‒ Evidence base (Research,

Monitoring, Evaluation)‒ Advocacy‒ Policy dialogue support‒ Capacity/Systems

strengthening ‒ Innovation/Intervention

modeling& Learning (e.g. SSC)

‒ Aid coordination support‒ Procurement services

Service Delivery‒ Equipment/Infrastructure‒ Supply‒ Direct care

HRBA For United Nations Means Working at Upstream, or with Upstream Mindset, all the Time

Outcome Mapping PrinciplesLimit of Influence and Control in Development

Interventions

Development Intervention e.g. UNDAF

Beneficiaries

Sphere of Control

Sphere of Interest

Uganda: 36 million people

Partners

Sphere of Influence

Making Development Assistance Effective and Efficient

Input, Activities,

Outputs

Changes in

State

Sphere of Control

Sphere of Interest

Country X

Influence engagement, capacities Performance

Sphere of Influence

Boundary Partners Concept

Development Intervention,

e.g. UNDAF

Country X

Boundary Partners

Stakeholders

Beneficiaries

RBM: • Simplicity• Vertical Causality; • Coherence

TDA: • Focus on Change Processes• Timing/Sequencing; • Horizontal Causality

Horizontale & Vertical Causality

Enabling Environment

e.g. Governance

Social Capital

Economic Growth

Responses to Challenges

HRBA [RBM/OM/TDA] & Sustainable Development

HRBA/GE/ EnvS Principles

RBM/OM/ TDA

Enabling Env

Social CapitalEconomic Growth

People-Driven SD

Transformational Development Planning

Good Governance

Values; Ethics; EquityCohesion Skills; Creativity

Quality of Life for ALL

Progressive Realization of HRs

InnovationProductionCompetitiveness

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