Do you wonder what value human rights-based approaches and equitable partnerships can add to development programming? The ICN presents this webinar with CCIC, in collaboration with the Coady International Institute and Equitas – International Centre for Human Rights Education. Participants will be introduced to a Guide that these three organizations have produced in collaboration. It provides concrete and practical tools to help organizations integrate a human rights-based approach (HRBA) into their development programming and begin a process to intentionally develop more equitable partnerships - all the while, helping facilitators run participatory workshops to achieve this, and providing a resource manual for participants in the process. The webinar will briefly touch upon the following: The rationale for creating the Guide two years on from the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, and the choice and centrality of human rights and partnership to the work of civil society. How the guide helps to demystify the human rights based approach (HRBA) by breaking it down into simple guiding elements that can inform and improve program design, implementation and evaluation, and about the value that HRBA brings to the development process. The different forms of collaboration and the power dynamics often involved, it will also discuss how partnership principles can shape a process to generate more equitable partnerships and recognize the importance of collaboration as an outcome.

1. Integrating HRBA and Equitable Partnerships into
Development Programming
Presentation to ICN Webinar, April 7, 2014

2. PART I: The HRBA and Equitable
Partnership Guide
Why a guide like this?
Why rights and partnership?
Why now?

3. 2011: Istanbul Principles
recognized at HLF4

4. Strength of the principles in the process
70 NATIONAL CONSULTATIONS
6 THEMATIC PROCESSES
11 REGIONAL WORKSHOPS
2 GLOBAL ASSEMBLIES
INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR CSO
DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS
Istanbul Principles for CSO
Development Effectiveness
Statement on CSO
Accountability
Minimum standards for
Enabling Environment
challenge
organizations to
reflect on their
practices and strive to
improve development
outcomes and
impacts

5. In Canada: from principles to practice
• Socializing IP – workshops, learning
fora, icons, podcasts, calendar
• Implementing IP – Case studies, Implementation
and Advocacy tool kit, Practitioner’s Guide, but…

6. From principles to practice 2.0
• Difficulty translating abstract principles into
practice
• Desire for hands-on practical tools
• Hence this Guide on
• Human rights (what and how)
• Partnership (with whom and how)
• Result of year-long collaboration
• First part, a guide for facilitators
• Second part, a reference for
practitioners/program developers

7. PART II: What we tried to do on the
Human Rights System and HRBA
•The value added of HRBA
•Integrating HRBA into
dev’t projects
•RBM and HRBA
•Learning by doing

8. Value-added of HRBA
HRBA
=
better and more sustainable
development results

9. Integrating HRBA in Development
Projects
A human rights-based approach …
• Is conceptual framework that links sustainable
development to realization of “all human rights
for all”
• Is operationally directed to promoting and
protecting human rights
• Focuses on PROCESS and RESULTS

10. The elements of HRBA
Participation
Accountability
Non-discrimination and equality
Empowerment
Links to human rights

11. HRBA and results
HRBA helps to answer four critical questions:
Who - whose life do we want to change, who
has been left behind
Why? Which rights are at stake?
Who has to do something about it?
What do they need, to take action?
Process and outcome are equally important

12. HRBA and RBM
RBM
Impact: change in…
Outcome: change in…
Output: change in …
HRBA
…quality of life (the realization
of human rights)
… performance (behaviours of
duty bearers and/or rights
holders and their institutions)
…the capacity of duty bearers
and rights holders
Process is guided by human rights principles
Causal
Analysis
Role
Analysis
CapacityGap
Analysis
Conclusions and recommendations from Universal Periodic
Review, Treaty Bodies, and Special Procedures help to identify
specific behaviours and capacities

13. PART III: Equitable Partnership
•Why do we partner and
what forms does this take?
•Challenges in partnership
•How can principles guide
a new process?

14. Partnership – one definition
“Partnership is a [cross-sector] collaboration in
which organizations work together in a
transparent, equitable and mutually beneficial
way towards a sustainable development goal
and where those defined as partners agree to
commit resources and share the risks as well as
the benefits associated with the partnership”
Partnering Initiative

15. Why partnership and collaboration?
From effective to equitable…
2000 - MDG 8
"virtually
nothing
happens ...
without
effective
partnership"
2005 - Paris
Declaration on
Aid Effectiveness
"working in
partnership"
refered to more
than 1000 times in
the declaration
2008 - Accra
Agenda for
Action
"build more
effective and
inclusive
partnerships in
order to have
greater impact on
reducing poverty"
2010 - Istanbul
CSO
Development
Effectiveness
Principles
Principle 6 :
"Pursue
equitable
partnerships and
solidarity"
Collaboration to meet mutual goals is an essential
element of all development work…

16. What drives collaboration/
partnership?
Resources centric
Collaborative work For the purpose of Influence

17. Purpose-led Partnership
• Systemic Change
• Policy Influence
• Business solution for social purpose
• Service Delivery Coordination
• Mutual learning (including research)
• Strengthening community voice
• others……

18. Nature of collaboration – a
partnership spectrum
Association /
networks
Social movements
Joint venture
Non-binding, loose legal/ binding
Coalitions
Coordinated
management
arrangement
Adapted from thepartnershipinitiative.org
Contractual /
donor relation
Social Enterprises

19. …So again: why work in partnership?
• Equitable and transparent partnerships are not
always easy.
• The Istanbul Principles for CSO Development
Effectiveness challenge us to pursue equitable
partnership based on shared development goals
and values, mutual respect, trust, organizational
autonomy, long-term accompaniment, solidarity
and global citizenship.

20. Think about: Partnering Cycle

21. Think about: power and partnership
(http://www.powercube.net/analyse-power/ )
 Power ‘over’ – the ability of the powerful to
affect the actions and thoughts of the powerless
 Power ‘to’ – the capacity to act; agency
 Power ‘with’ – the synergy of collective
action, social mobilization and alliance building
 Power ‘within’ – a sense of self-dignity and self-
awareness that enables agency
www.powercube.net

22. Visible Hidden Invisible
POWER
PLACES
Global
National
Local
Household
SPACES
Closed
Claimed
Invited
Power and Partnership
(http://www.powercube.net/analyse-power/ )

23. Principles to guide partnership -
CCIC Code of Ethics
Code of Ethics:
A declaration of common
principles that all members
strive to continually
embody.
Operational Standards:
Collective understanding of
what at a minimum
organizations agree they
must do.

24. Developing a tool: What does
equitable partnership look like?
• What are some indicators of:
–Trust
–Mutual respect
–Shared development goals and values
–Organizational autonomy
–Long term accompaniment
• Anything we could change in how we approach
partnership opportunities?

25. Follow-up discussion / reflection
• Anything we could change in how we approach
partnership opportunities?
• How might we examine issues of power in our
partnerships?
• What should successful DFATD partnerships look
like?
• What are the opportunities and challenges for
developing successful partnerships – what
recommendations might we make in changes in
our practice?

26. Thank you!
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