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Human Rights-Based
Approach to Programming
- UNFPA Overview: UNFPA and Human Rights
UNFPA and Human Rights
• Action 2
• Policy Committee of UN reiterated
importance of HRBA
• HRBA manual based on Action 2 General
Manual
UNFPA Strategic Plan Goals
Population and
Development
• Use of data to guide
investments in:
- gender equality
- youth development
- reproductive health,
HIV/AIDS
Reproductive Health
and Rights
• Universal access to
reproductive health by
2015
• Universal access to
comprehensive HIV
prevention by 2010
Gender Equality
• Gender equality
ADVANCED?
• Women and adolescent
girls empowered to
exercise their human
rights
UNFPA Strategic Plan
• UNFPA supports capacity-building to implement
the human rights-based approach in
programming and policies at all levels from an
ICPD perspective
• Approach focuses on:
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inclusion
interdependence
participation
non-discrimination
• Special attention focused on most excluded and
marginalized population groups of society
Strategic Plan: Cross-cutting Concerns
• Special attention to marginalized and excluded
populations:
– identify excluded and marginalized groups and assess needs,
specifically sexual and reproductive health needs
– target the poorest of the poor, especially:
* disadvantaged adolescents and youth
* women survivors/victims of violence and abuse
* out-of-school youth
* women living with HIV
* women engaged in sex work
* minorities and indigenous people
* women living with disabilities
* refugees and internally displaced persons
* women living under occupation
* aging populations
For Example - Strategic Plan: Goal 3
• Outcome 1: Gender equality and the human rights of
women and adolescent girls, particularly their
reproductive rights, integrated in national policies,
development frameworks and laws.
• Outcome 3: Human rights protection systems (including
national human rights councils, ombudspersons, and
conflict-resolution mechanisms) and participatory
mechanisms are strengthened to protect the
reproductive rights of women and adolescent girls,
including the right to be free from violence.
Activities
• Capacity-building: The Manual
The Process
1. Workshop in Headquarters
2. Two rounds of interviews in Headquarters
3. One round of phone interviews with staff from country
offices (designated by GDs)
4. Workshop in Boston: Staff from COs, GDs, Training
branch, HRU, OED, TSD and the four regional centres
5. First regional testing workshop (Ghana, Africa)
6. A meeting with experts from HRU, TSD and GDs to
finalize the content
7. Three other regional workshops
8. Plan with Training Branch, including e-learning course
Activities
• Inter-agency (Human Rights, Indigenous,
Disabilities)
• Protection mechanisms:
– NHRIs, judiciary, laws
• Work with HRC, special procedures and
treaty bodies
• Advocacy