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facilitate the participation of poor and vulnerable populations in the design and
implementation of development policies and programs.
Negative role
Origins of the rights based approach to manage development can be followed back to the
1948 All-inclusive Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Article 25 (1) of the Universal
Assertion of Human Rights communicates that, everyone has the benefit to a lifestyle
sufficient for the wellbeing and prosperity of himself and of his family, including food,
clothing, housing and clinical consideration and fundamental social administrations, and
the privilege to security in case of joblessness, infection, incapacity, widowhood, mature
age or other absence of work in conditions outside his ability to control. Often this is taken
as the reason for rights based methodology in that it ensures each individual a case to a
certain degree of prosperity not as an issue of noble cause, yet as an issue of right. This
permits development strategies to be inclusive to everybody.
Whether via strict media oversight or burdensome regulatory hurdles for CSOs,
governments in numerous countries are restricting the space for civil society – particularly
in the arena of advancing human rights or democratic principles (Brynard, 2006).Steps to
suppress or curb civil society freedoms include limiting access to national and foreign
funding, erecting barriers to mobile communications, and applying onerous, arbitrary or
poorly administrated registration processes. Beyond steps taken by specific national
governments, international civil society leaders have identified a more general decline in
funding available for advocacy, rights- based activities, or “causes that cha llenge the
status quo”. While many of these measures may not constitute overt acts such as bans,
civil society leaders say the implications of these more subtly administered restrictions
extend beyond specific activities to hinder the development of democratic governance,
accountability and stability over the long term (Althaus et al ,2013) .
There are suggestions too for the willingness of the private segment to participate in social
obligation programs, specifically in association with civil society associations, in areas