Human rights are a ‘guiding principle’ and a ‘quality criterion’ of the work of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). As a basis for implementing this principle, it pursues a human rights-based approach (HRBA), which is comprehensively examined for the first time in this evaluation. The present Part 2 of this evaluation analyses the mainstreaming of human rights standards and principles in bilateral development cooperation projects and the effectiveness of these projects on human rights in partner countries.
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