Section 2
Working with your partner community
Section Overview
This section introduces a human rights community-led development process including:
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preparing your NHRI
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initiating community engagement
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facilitating a community-led planning process
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supporting community-led action
Human rights community-led development is an approach, a way of working, and as such is based on
specific principles and processes. The previous section discussed principles. This section introduces
a high-level human rights community-led development process, anticipating that you will choose what
elements work for you and the communities with whom you work.
You are also encouraged to generate your own processes, methods and tools, thereby working with
the APF to build up our collective bank of HRCLD resources from around the region.
The story of Vanuanui continues throughout this section to give one example about how aspects of a
HRCLD approach may occur. The case studies in Section 3 provide actual examples.
Figure 8: The four stages of a human rights community-led
development process
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APF HRCLD Guide
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Prepare your NHRI
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Carry out initial community
engagement
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Facilitate community-led
planning process
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Support community-led action
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