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Published on 5 March 2024

Toolbox: Human Rights Based Approach HRBA

Applying the HRBA in development programmes contributes to sustaining peace, peace building and conflict prevention. The HRBA seeks to analyse discrimination and inequalities that lie at the heart of development problems and to transform these practices and the underlying power dynamics. It shifts the notion of development away from charity to focus on rights and corresponding obligations. The HRBA guides development programs in the application of the following human rights principles and norms: Equality and non-discrimination, participation and empowerment, accountability, indivisibility and universality of human rights