Project Team: Siri Gloppen, Alicia Yamin, Allan Maleche, Malcolm Langford, Camila Gianella, Roberto Iunes, Leonardo Cubillio, Maria-Luisa Escobar
Timeframe: 12/01/2013 - 12/31/2016
Abstract: The research project a Rights-Based Approach to Health Service Delivery (RBA – health delivery) aims to develop a participatory methodology for operationalizing a rights-based approach to health service delivery.
Background and purpose:
This research project is a joint effort by CMI, The World Bank and Harvard University to develop a participatory methodology for operationalizing a rights-based approach to health service delivery. This means integrating human rights norms and principles in the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of health-related policies and programs. A human rights approach to health is critical to address growing global health inequalities. We, therefore, evaluate this project to be of great importance.
A participatory methodology for operationalizing a rights-based approach to health service delivery has several aspects. It includes more precisely addressing human dignity, attention to the needs and rights of vulnerable groups, and an emphasis on ensuring that health systems are made accessible to all. Also, the principle of equality and freedom from discrimination is central, including discrimination on the basis of sex and gender roles. Integrating human rights into development further also means empowering poor people, ensuring their participation in decision-making processes that concern them and incorporating accountability and transparency mechanisms that they can access.
Project focus:
Building on previous and ongoing work, the RBA – health delivery project aims to facilitate co-creation by stakeholders in partner countries in the operationalization of RBA-health delivery tools, and to ensure that in doing so they have access to and actively engage with the best possible knowledge base. This includes findings from the project itself -internal research on impacts of such tools as that are being developed, thus enabling continuous improvements by bridging research and policy. The project also aims to develop a methodology for assessing impacts of RBAs in health services delivery operationalization.
Outputs:
- CMI Report, Apr 2018 “Life skills in non-formal contexts for adolescent girls in developing countries by Kendra Dupuy, Sosina Bezu, Are Knudsen, Sandra Halvorsen, Christina Kwauk (Brookings Institution), Amanda Braga (Brookings Institution), Helyn Kim (Brookings Institution) Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2018:6) 115 p.
- Journal Article, 2017, “Political determinants of sustainable development goals
in The Lancet vol. 390 no. 10112 pp. 2545-2546
- CMI Brief, 2017, “What causes Latin America’s high incidence of adolescent pregnancy?” by
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 9) 4 p.
- CMI Brief, 2017, “Counter-mobilization against child marriage reform in Africa” by
- CMI Working Paper, Apr 2018 Kinship, Caste and Health: Illness and Treatment in Upland Orissa Clive Bell, Susanne van Dillen (2018) Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2018:6) 35 p.
- Newspaper Op-Ed, Mar 2018″ The ruins of Bangladesh’s LGBT community
- Newspaper, Mar 2018″ Democracy decaying in Bangladesh
- U4 Brief, Mar 2018 ” Corruption and the city: How aid donors can support integrity building in urban Spaces” by David Aled Williams, Kendra Dupuy. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Brief No. 2)
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