By: Anna Bruce & Johanna Sjöwall
The purpose of this introduction to Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA) is to give you, as a local government employee or elected local government politician, an understanding of why local governments should apply HRBA, what HRBA is, and how HRBA is used by local governments in everyday policy and practice.
This introduction to HRBA continues the work of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI) to build user-friendly human rights knowledge and tools for cities and regions, in Sweden and abroad. It was developed as part of a collaboration between Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD) and RWI 2022-2023, involving cities in Sweden and Southern Africa.