Rights-based approach
A human rights-based approach
Taking a human rights-based approach means carefully planning work so that, for example, the poorest of the poor and those who suffer multiple discriminations, are reached. The approach involves a broad spectrum of people, from community members to grassroots activists to local, national and international NGOs, to trade unions and other civil society actors. And it means working in different ways with the range of stakeholders, at different moments in the process. Understanding that sometimes government might be a collaborator, for example, if it is showing interest in fulfilling its obligations while at other moments a key target, for example, if it is continually failing to invest in delivering the range of human rights.
A couple of useful resources on rights-based approaches to education are available:
Education Rights. A guide for practitioners and activists (ActionAid for the Global Campaign for Education, 2007) - many pages from here are reproduced on the RTE website. It is large and therefore split up in parts here:
Section 1 ( part 1, part 2): Understanding and securing the right to education
Section 2 ( part 1, part 2 ): Working with excluded groups
Section 3 ( part 1, part 2 ): Financing education
Section 4 ( part 1, part 2 ): Citizen participation in education
Section 5 ( part 1, part 2 ): Rights in education
Section 6 ( part 1, part 2) : Advancing a full Education for All agenda
The entire Education Rights in Spanish
Manual on Rights-based Education (written by Katarina Tomasevski for UNESCO Bangkok, 2004)
A Human-Rights Based Approach to Education for All (UNICEF/UNESCO, 2007)
See also the NEW! portal on human rights based approaches by UNDP.
