Title PageRights-Based Approaches toInternational Health and Nutrition

Elvira Beracochea, MD. MPH.

President

elvira@midego.com

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?

The Actors

• Duty bearers

• Right holders

• Non-State Actors

• Dual Roles

• Dual Loyalties

The Duty Bearer must ensure

• Availability

• Accessibility

• Acceptability

• Quality

• Equity (for all)

Right Holders / Non-State Actors

Advocacy

Rights-Based Approach MUST

Respect, Protect and Fulfill human rights

and

Demonstrate Effectiveness

To Deliver Effective Results,

Health services must deliver

Quality

At

Countrywide Scale

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!

Universal Human Rights Instruments

• http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/UniversalHumanRightsInstruments.aspx

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

A better approach is

A Rights Based Approach

Why?

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

Human Rights Principles

• Universal and inalienable

• Indivisible

• Interdependent and interrelated

• Equal to all human beings

• Meaningful Participation

• States are duty bearers

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.”

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

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.”

Assess your Program

How to apply RBAs to your Program or

Project

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

Choice

A needs-based approach

Or

A rights-based approach?

RBA Career Make-Over

Volunteers?

Would you share your comments?

Thank you!

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