RRN Strategy and Approach»

RRN actively integrates a rights based approach of pro-poor development into all areas of its work. This approach is founded on the conviction that each and every human being is a holder of rights and that promoting human rights is an integral part of improving development in Nepal. A right entails an obligation on the part of the government to respect, promote, protect, and fulfil it. The legal and normative character of human rights and the associated government obligations are based on the international human rights treaties and the national laws.

Thus, a rights-based approach involves not charity or simple economic growth, but a process of changing systems, actions and priorities to enable and empower people to claim and realise their economic, social, cultural and political rights as well as the right to development. RRN has adapted the following two-pronged strategy.

• Implement integrated community development projects and conduct action-oriented research focusing on the poorest and most vulnerable groups in rural areas;
  
• Raise awareness and promote policy changes through policy research, advocacy and lobbying at local, national and international levels on the root causes of poverty, the problems of the poor, social, economic and cultural rights and the right to development.