Figure 9: HRCLD approach developed by Pacific NHRIs for
use in the Pacific6
The following HRCLD approach was developed by Pacific NHRIs as part of a HRCLD pilot based in
the Cook Islands, Fiji and Samoa.
Human Rights Community-led
Development Process for Pacific NHRIs
2. Begin
relationship-building
and learn about
the community
4. Support
community-led
action
3. Facilitate a
community-led
planning process
1. Prepare
the NHRI
1. Prepare the NHRI
Commit NHRI
Ensure NHRI capability
Identify community
Learn about the community
including how and when to engage
Identify risks and challenges
2. Begin relationship-building and learn
about the community
3. Facilitate a community-led planning
process
Engage with leaders
Support the community to:
Identify key community players /
influencers
identify its priority issues
Engage more broadly, ensuring every
part of the community is represented
identify its resources
Agree to work together
Establish roles
decide its outcomes
form an action plan
4. Support community-led action
Facilitate capacity-building
Support the community to
implement its action plan
Support the community to monitor,
evaluate, be accountable, learn
(MEAL)
In parallel go through own MEAL
processes
Community is defined as wherever people live, work and play. Communities
can be geographical, functional or based on a common identity.
6. Graphic kindly developed by the Pacific Community’s PROJECT Governance
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