HIF is currently using a human-rights based approach in designing and implementing our overseas projects.
What is a HUMAN-RIGHTS BASED APPROACH (HRBA)?
This concept is actually from the UN. It means that integrating human rights norms and principles in the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of related policies and programmes. In contrast to CHARITY APPROACH, which mainly involves donation to the poor, HRBA focuses more on recipients' rights and feelings.
To be more specific, Human rights include the basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled. For instance, civil and political rights, such as the right to life and liberty, freedom of expression, and equality before the law; and social, cultural and economic rights, including the right to participate in culture, the right to food, the right to work, and the right to education. (from Wikipedia)
Why do we choose HRBA?
What is a HUMAN-RIGHTS BASED APPROACH (HRBA)?
This concept is actually from the UN. It means that integrating human rights norms and principles in the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of related policies and programmes. In contrast to CHARITY APPROACH, which mainly involves donation to the poor, HRBA focuses more on recipients' rights and feelings.
To be more specific, Human rights include the basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled. For instance, civil and political rights, such as the right to life and liberty, freedom of expression, and equality before the law; and social, cultural and economic rights, including the right to participate in culture, the right to food, the right to work, and the right to education. (from Wikipedia)
Why do we choose HRBA?
In UN's explanation of HRBA, they gave an example:
"Even if he can vote to choose his rulers, a young man with AIDS who cannot read or write and lives on the brink of starvation is not truly free. Equally, even if she earns enough to live, a woman who lives in the shadow of daily violence and has no say in how her country is run is not truly free."
There is actually lots of possibility for us to explore to further help those people, and it is that possibility that determines whether we have really helped them.
Back to HIF, after we told others what we saw in Cambodia and inspired some people to take action, what's next that we can do to further maximize our impact? Can we dig even deeper into humanity issues and spread our understanding to others in addition to facts? In Cambodia, we have started to leave impression to those little children. However, is there anything we can do to help them gain the same rights we enjoy? How can we start?
Well, HRBA seems to be abstarct because rights are not that concrete and are not uniformly defined. But taking up HRBA can be a good start. We can think more about what the children in the Cambodian villages need, about how they will grow up and create the sky of their own.
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