Ethics and human rights community-led development5 HRCLD involves engaging with real people with real lives – sometimes quite deeply. In addition to the principles the following standards apply to HRCLD work. Being competent and ethical practitioners demonstrates the respect the NHRI has for the community with whom it is working. Figure 5: Ethics and human rights community-led development Do no harm ensuring those who experience human rights violations are protected from harm throughout all processes. Seek free prior informed consent ensuring that everyone has the information they need and agrees to be involved, understanding all the implications of doing so. Work for the common good supporting all those engaged to work together for the good of the community as a whole. Be transparent ensuring clarity, openness and accountability throughout the HRCLD activity. Avoid predetermined outcomes encouraging new ideas and options by listening to diverse perspectives, through research and encouraging creativity. Be a competent practitioner of HRCLD showing respect to the community and the HRCLD process by being effective and competent facilitators. Ensuring inclusiveness everyone has equitable access to resources, processes, and contribute to decision-making etc. Human rights community-led development is about facilitating structures and processes to enable communities to address the human rights issues which affect their lives – it is nothing about us without us. HRCLD is based on transformative and liberatory principles, on bottom-up processes and on prioritising insider values, experience and expertise. 5. The ethics of HRCLD and a check list are available as a pull-out in Section 4, Tool 2 APF HRCLD Guide 22