Framework for Integrating Rights and Equality (FIRE)

FIRE has been used in a range of contexts including analysis of law and policy relating to land use planning in Nepal and the Philippines, co-development of training on rights-based and inclusive approaches to emergency preparedness for response in a unique collaboration between civil society, the private sector and governments across nine countries in Asia, and design of research relating to pandemic preparedness and response across 14 countries worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. FIRE has also been used to structure a public sector innovation programme relating to climate displacement in African cities and a new initiative on rights-based climate adaptation in Armenia and Georgia, which bridges human rights and climate adaptation communities of practice. The framework supports the operationalization of the human rights and gender equality ambitions reflected in the post-2015 frameworks, including the Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the New Urban Agenda, the Kunming-Montreal Framework on Biodiversity, the Agenda for Humanity and the Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees. Key publications introduce the framework and demonstrate how it has been applied in context.