Publications

In the strategy paper ‘Human Rights in German Development Policy’, published in 2011, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) defined human rights as a guiding principle of its work. The strategy paper formulates a human rights-based approach (HRBA) for the realisation of this guiding principle. The current DEval evaluation comprehensively assesses the HRBA for the first time since it was adopted.

• Executive Summary (PDF, 820 KB)
• Executive Summary in German (Leichte Sprache) (PDF, 2.43 MB)
• Online Appendix (in German) (PDF, 1.02 MB)
• To the BMZ Responses
• To the Human Rights Report Series This Publication is Part of the Human Rights Report Series

• Polak, J. T., L. Smidt, L. Taube (2021), Human Rights in German Development Policy. Part 1: The Human Rights Strategy and its Implementation, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn.