Social Inclusion & Rights Based Approach

By Sunil Tiwari

Disabling Factors
There are three types of disabling factors:
1. 2. 3. Disease Disability Disadvantage

How To Reduce Exclusion

Promote and support access to social networks. Resolve transport issues so that they do not prevent people from participating in the wider community. Build links with community projects, community centres and schools to increase levels of social contact between people from different generations. Identify, respect and use peoples skills, including the skills of older people gained in previous employment. Give people ordinary opportunities to participate in the wider community through person-centred care planning. Involve people in service planning and ensure ideas and suggestions are acted upon.

 Social inclusion In simple terms it means, all citizens are free and able to participate in the life of society.

Rights Based Approach Right based approach aims to enable claim holders to claim their rights and duty bearers to meet their obligations under law

Understanding Social Inclusion and RBA Together

Social inclusion and the rights-based approach to development are both value-based analytical frameworks for analysing imbalanced power relationships. They are both multidimensional frameworks with a relativistic understanding of poverty and social exclusion. Both approaches are preoccupied with the individual (& groups) and their patterns of exclusion related to lacking access to labour, employment, education, health. They also share a common concern for equality, nondiscrimination & inclusive participation.

Aspects Cover a Person's Well Being

sustenance, food, health and shelter growth in physical, intellectual and social terms choice of profession, life style, life partner ownership of, access to and control over materialities: income, resources and entitlements; symbolized in having a voice, which voice is heard

prosperity co-implicates horizontal, vertical and diagonal movements across locations (rural, urban), classes (rich, poor) and sociopolitical roles (is not barred to hold any office, play any role)

Dimension of Social Inclusion &RBA

Value Recognition Human Development Involvement & Engagement Proximity Material Well Being

Summary
The process of Social Inclusion & RBA is not just about improving access to services, but also supporting people including those who are discriminated against and marginalised to engage in wider processes to ensure that their rights and needs are recognised. For example in planning and managing service delivery, in decision-making, and in holding duty bearers to account through citizens action.