rights-based approaches to international health and nutrition
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Do we choose a needs based approach to development or a rights based approach? RBAs are already supported by legal frameworks.TRANSCRIPT
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Title PageRights-Based Approaches toInternational Health and Nutrition
Elvira Beracochea, MD. MPH.
President
Specially Prepared for: Members of the International Health and Nutrition Working Group of
TheSociety for International Development March 27, 2013
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Choice
A needs-based approach
Or
A rights-based approach?
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The Actors
• Duty bearers
• Right holders
• Non-State Actors
• Dual Roles
• Dual Loyalties
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The Duty Bearer must ensure
• Availability
• Accessibility
• Acceptability
• Quality
• Equity (for all)
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Right Holders / Non-State Actors
Advocacy
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Rights-Based Approach MUST
Respect, Protect and Fulfill human rights
and
Demonstrate Effectiveness
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To Deliver Effective Results,
Health services must deliver
Quality
At
Countrywide Scale
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Presentation Goals1. Present an overview of Human Rights
Instruments available to help you improve the effectiveness of your programs
2. Discuss ways you can apply rights-based approaches in international health and nutrition
3. RBA Career Make- Overs!
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Universal Human Rights Instruments
• http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/UniversalHumanRightsInstruments.aspx
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Innovation in IHN
“The process of analyzing a problem and solving it by creating a new or better process, product or service.”
Dr. Elvira Beracocheawww.midego.com
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A better approach is
A Rights Based Approach
Why?
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Legal Framework and International Declarations
• UDHR, 1948
•ICESCR, 1966
•CEDAW, 1979
•The Right to Development, 1986•CRC, 1989
•The Millennium Declaration, 2000
•General Comment 14, 2000
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Human Rights Principles
• Universal and inalienable
• Indivisible
• Interdependent and interrelated
• Equal to all human beings
• Meaningful Participation
• States are duty bearers
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Article 25
“Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age, or other like of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.”
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Global Health HR Tools• ICDP Cairo, 1994 and Cairo +5
• Beijing Conference on Women, 1995
• Millennium Declaration, 2000
• Paris Declaration, 2005
• Accra Agenda for Action
• Rio +20, 2012
Beyond the MDGs: Sustainable Goals & Universal Coverage
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The Right to Food• Article 25
• General Comment 12 on the Right to Adequate Food (1999)
“The right to food is realized when every man, woman, child, alone or in community with others, has physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or the means for its procurement.”
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Assess your Program
How to apply RBAs to your Program or
Project
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Other IHN RBA Issues to explore
• Right to Water
• Right to Clean Air
• Right to medicines
• Women’s Health
• Children’s Health
• Rights of Drug Users
• Rights of persons in prisons
• Rights of persons in conflict settings
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Choice
A needs-based approach
Or
A rights-based approach?
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RBA Career Make-Over
Volunteers?
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