Following the previous two workshops held in Princeton (2001) and Stamford (2003), the Action 2 Interagency Task Force will convene the third interagency workshop which will give greater substance and impetus to the system-wide mainstreaming of human rights, including guiding human rights mainstreaming within UNCTs and at the country level in the future.
Objectives:
(1) To take stock of where the UN system and its development partners have come to in conceptualizing and implementing a human rights based approach to development cooperation, at programming and policy levels; (2) To consider how a HRBA can further strengthen the foundations for UN system-wide cooperation, in the context of newly agreed ‘five key programming principles and thematic issues’ that must be applied for UN common country programming as provided in the 2007 CCA/ UNDAF guidelines; and (3) To propose elements and options for interagency coordination arrangements on human rights mainstreaming.