Human rights and poverty reduction

Purpose

The project aims to explore how human rights can be used to create enduring processes of empowerment and poverty reduction. Case studies are undertaken in respectively Ghana (rural areas) and Bangladesh (urban slums).

The difference we make

So far, a study on Right to Services and Poverty has been made in Ghana. The case study on the Volta Region provided indicative evidence that, where operationalized locally, the human rights-based approach contributed in making access to sanitation, education, and health services more equitable with the result that under five malnourishment was significantly more positive in the community which had benefitted from the human rights-based support.

Partners

The case study in Ghana was undertaken in cooperation with University of Ghana, Institute of Statistical, Economic and Social Research.

The case study in Bangladesh is conducted in cooperation with BLAST, the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust.