HUMAN RIGHTS IN GERMAN DEVELOPMENT POLICY - Part 1: The Human Rights Strategy

How relevant is the human rights strategy in the current political and normative human rights situation worldwide? To assess whether the human rights strategy has been effective in guiding actions, the evaluation team studied the implementation of the HRBA by the BMZ and the implementing organisations. [...] Both in comparison with the HRBAs of other development partners, and in light of the current global human rights challenges, most of the content of the human rights strategy meets the current requirements. [...] By examining the content and implementation of the human rights strategy paper, the evaluation aims to contribute to the ongoing development of the HRBA’s content and better anchoring of the approach in German development policy. [...] Accordingly, the evaluation pursues the following objectives:3 • Enable learning: The evaluation aims to supply findings on the content of the human rights strategy and the implementation of the HRBA in practice. [...] 9 Such individual rights of persons belonging to certain groups include the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the International Convention on Migrant Workers.