Expanding Participation and Coordination in Local Development
Programming that focuses on social inclusion at the assessment and planning stages, coordinating national and local policy and processes, and opening up planning and programming to continual evaluation and refinement by stakeholders. View example
Integrating Human Rights and Development Best Practices
Programme that integrates human rights principles and approaches into municipal development practice, enabling municipalities to evaluate, adopt and implement rights based development strategies. The WebPortal’s most developed programming example. View example
Introducing Human Rights into National Human Development Discourse
Programme that partnered with Ministry of Foreign Affairs to incorporate international human rights treaties into domestic law, and introduce human rights discourse into the country’s national development planning. View example
Building Expertise and Participation Through Networks
Programme that sets up institutional fora where development stakeholders from all sectors and at local and national levels cooperate in designing municipal development plans. View example
Advocacy efforts to address pockets of extreme poverty in an otherwise affluent country’s development plan, relied on the hard evidence of disaggregated indicators, strategic partnerships, and flexible advocacy strategies. View example
Novel Mechanisms to Link Human Rights Accountability and MDG Commitments
Programme that links human rights capacity development at the local level to the country’s main MDG policy document, and partners with the national bar association for novel accountability mechanisms. View example
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