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Evaluating Impact Through a Rights-Based Approach in Development Practices

This document explores the integration of a rights-based approach (RBA) into impact evaluation processes within development. Emphasizing international human rights norms and principles such as equality, accountability, empowerment, and participation, it examines how these elements can assess positive and negative impacts on vulnerable groups in India. Addressing critical questions about the effectiveness of poverty reduction strategies, the text highlights methodological challenges and practitioners' expectations regarding RBA in evaluating development interventions. Join experts Ms. Sheelagh O'Reilly and Dr. S.P. Pal in this essential discourse.

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Evaluating Impact Through a Rights-Based Approach in Development Practices

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  1. IMPACT EVALUATION: A RIGHTS BASED APPROACH

  2. Rights based Approach a rights-based approach integrates the norms, standards and principles of the international human rights system into the plans, policies and processes of development. The norms and standards are those contained in the wealth of international treaties and declarations. The principles include equality and equity, accountability, empowerment and participation.

  3. Components of RBA • A rights-based approach to development includes the following elements: • express linkage to rights • accountability • empowerment • participation • non-discrimination and attention to vulnerable groups

  4. DAC definition of Impacts • “the positive and negative, primary and secondary long-term effects produced by a development intervention, directly or indirectly, intended or unintended. These effects can be economic, socio-cultural, institutional, environmental, technological or of other types”.

  5. Impact Evaluation • Impact evaluation “assesses changes in the well-being of individuals, households, communities or firms that can be attributed to a particular project, program or policy”. It thus captures the spirit of accountability in development intervention in quite an objective fashion and can contribute meaningfully to the understanding if a particular programme, project or policy has really enhanced the right to development of the vulnerable groups.

  6. Key Issues at Hand • How can impact evaluation of policies, programmes or projects contribute meaningfully to the understanding of a development process undertaken in India? • Does it help understand if the spirit of ‘development as right’ is being advanced or not in the poverty reduction strategies identified?

  7. Key Issues at Hand • What are the methodological challenges involved in identifying their impact on the ‘bundle of rights’ available to an Indian citizen – particularly the vulnerable ones? • What are the expectations of the practitioners of “rights based approach to development” from the experts engaged in impact evaluation?

  8. Today’s speakers • Ms. Sheelagh O’Reilly • Dr. S.P. Pal

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