0.2 Who is the Guide for? Senior leaders of NHRIs (Ombudspersons, Chairpersons/Presidents, Commissioners, senior executive officers and senior managers) are responsible for ensuring that their NHRIs meet their mandate as set out in the Paris Principles. They therefore have overall responsibility for initiating and overseeing an NHRI’s external engagement. On a practical level however, the Guide is most useful for directors, heads of departments, team and programme leaders who are focused on building external human rights capacity and on encouraging action to address human rights issues. 0.3 How to use the Guide The Guide is a downloadable resource with practical step-by-step guidelines about how to facilitate a human rights community-led development approach. It provides tools, resources and case studies and is accompanied by an online programme which is available on APF’s learning platform. The Guide is divided into four sections. Section 1 explores what is meant by a human rights community-led development approach and why it is useful for NHRIs. Section 2 takes you through the four stages of a human rights community-led development approach. Section 3 provides a selection of resources, tools and techniques for planning, implementing and evaluating human rights community-led development. Section 4 includes case studies from the Pacific, the Philippines and Aotearoa New Zealand that use a human rights community-led development approach. A scenario based on a fictional community, Vanuanui, plays its way throughout the Guide to provide an example of HRCLD processes as they are discussed. APF HRCLD Guide 8