HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED EVALUATION IN GERMAN AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION 2022

The Council affirmed that the human rights principles of inclusion and participation, non-discrimination, equality and equity, transparency and accountability should be central to EU development cooperation, thereby also ensuring the empowerment of the poorest and most vulnerable, in particular of women and girls (Council of the EU, 2014: 2). [...] The UNEG guidance refers to the UN Common Understanding on an HRBA to development cooperation and emphasises that the three principles of non-discrimination and equality, participation and inclusion, and accountability and the rule of the law are particularly relevant to evaluations. [...] DEval Discussion Paper 1/2022 Human Rights-Based Evaluation in German and International Development Cooperation 8 Table 3 UNEG Guidance on HR & GE in evaluation process Evaluation phases Key elements of the HRBA and GE approach Design and • The scope of the evaluation and the key principles that will guide the evaluation planning • An evaluability assessment of whether, for example: the programme. [...] Box 7 The EC guidance on an HRBA to evaluation According to the EC guidance document, applying the HRBA to monitoring and evaluation requires the evaluator to: • Integrate human rights and gender equality principles and commitments into indicators and monitoring and evaluation processes. [...] on the normative framework of international human rights law Assessment of impact on social and • Progressive realisation is defined in international human rights law as the obligation economic rights is informed by the of states to take appropriate measures towards the full realisation of economic, principle of progressive realisation social and cultural rights to the maximum of their available r.