Human Rights Mainstreaming Guideline
Key Questions for Application
NZAID has developed a set of screening questions. These can be used at all stages of the programme cycle, and during appraisal processes. They also form the basis for evaluating the implementation of the human rights mainstreaming policy during reviews and evaluations of strategies and activities. These questions have been (will be?) integrated into the appropriate tools.
- Which rights are affected by this strategy/programme?
- Is there a risk of NZAID acting in any way which is inconsistent with its human rights commitments? Or of reducing the ability of partner government to fulfil their human rights obligations? Or reducing participants’ ability to exercise their rights?
- Has the strategy / programme been developed and implemented using participatory methodologies?
- Does the strategy / programme contain clear accountability mechanisms and measures which reinforce legal accountabilities both within the partner country and NZ?
- Is the strategy / programme inclusive? Does the programme / strategy discriminate (directly or indirectly) against any group of people or bar them from benefiting from the programme’s benefits, or does it support discriminatory laws and regulations?
- Does the monitoring and evaluation framework include the collection of disaggregated data?