Africa: A rights-based approach to climate change

This report examines the application of a human rights-based approach (HRBA) to climate change programming (CCP) in Africa, paying particular attention to the criteria of adaptation, resilience, loss and damage, and human mobility as a facilitator of climate action.

The study indicates that the HRBA requires that CCAP should have the following essential attributes. The main objective should be to: fulfil human rights through identifying rightsholders and their entitlements; identifying corresponding duty-bearers and their obligations; strengthen the capacities of rights-holders to make their claims; strengthen the capacities of duty-bearers to meet their obligations; and be guided by the principles and standards derived from international human rights treaties in all sectors and in all phases of the process.