23 – 25 October 2013 — UN-Habitat undertook an in-house training for its staff focusing on the Human Rights Based-Approach to Development (HRBA). The learning days were designed to enable UN-Habitat staff to understand the tenets of rights-based programming of development outcomes helping staff to incorporate HRBA concepts and methods when designing and implementing programmes, policies and projects. Overall the training aims to create an environment for human rights as an institutional basis and principal framework of work enforcing a Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) to Sustainable Urban Development in UN-Habitat.
Materials:
Underlying Determinants of Child Malnutrition
The Importance and Relevance of an HRBA to UN-Habitat
The Origin and Meaning of Human Rights
Some Key Components of an HRBA
Converge and Consensus on an HRBA to Development
A Human-Rights Based Approach to Development
Housing Rights: Perspectives and Challenges
Human Rights, Gender and Youth (in French)
Twelve Key Points in Relation to a HRBA
Presentation – Group 1: Drainage and Sanitation in Mathare Slum, Nairobi, Kenya
Rights-based sustainable urban development lecture
Reading materials:
New Strategies of Sustainable Neighbourhood Planning: Five Principles
Handling Land: Innovative Tools for Land Governance and Secure Tenure
A User’s Guide to Measuring Local Governance
Mainstreaming Gender Water and Sanitation
Manual on the Right to Water and Sanitation
Programmatic Guidance Note for UN-Habitat
Historic Districts for All: India
Guidance Note for UNODC Staff: Promotion and Protection of Human Rights