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===Rights-based approach to development===
Approaching development from a rights perspective informs people of their legal rights and entitlements, and empowers them to achieve those rights. Rather than seeing people as passive recipients of aid, the rights-based approach puts the individual at the centre of development.
:In essence, the duty to fulfill requires that governments take active steps to ensure that everyone can enjoy the right to water as soon as possible.This encompasses the obligations to facilitate, promote and provide.The obligation to facilitate requires the State to take positive measures to assist individuals and communities to enjoy the right.The obligation to promote obliges the State Party to take steps to ensure that there is appropriate education concerning the hygienic use of water, protection of water sources and methods to minimize water wastage. States Parties are also obliged to fulfill (provide) the right when an individual or a group are unable, for reasons beyond their control, to realize that right themselves by the means at their disposal.
===Water Field experiences===The following project make use of rights videos -based approaches: {{RSR_table|1image=project 475.png|1link=http://rsr.akvo.org/project/475/ |1project#=475|1project name=Health Village: WASH Monitoring Perspective||2image=project 477.png|2link=http://rsr.akvo.org/project/477/ |2project#=477|2project name=Creating an enabling environment for WASH||3image=project 495.png|3link=http://rsr.akvo.org/project/495/ |3project#=495|3project name=Sustainable progress in WASH||4image=project 767.png|4link=http://rsr.akvo.org/project/767/ |4project#=767|4project name=Access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene||5image=project 366.png|5link=http://rsr.akvo.org/project/366/ |5project#=366|5project name=WASH Sustainability through Women Led MFI|}} {|style="border: 2px solid #e8e8e8; width: 40%; text-align: justify; background-color: #ddf3fa;" cellpadding="2"<!--logo here-->|- style="vertical-align: top"|[[Image:akvorsr logo_lite.png|center|60px|link=http://akvo.org/products/rsr/]]<!--tables begin-->|- style="vertical-align: bottom"|[[Image:project 367.png|thumb|center|140px|<font size="2"><center>[http://rsr.akvo.org/project/367/ RSR Project 367]<br>SWASH in Birendranagar, Surkhet</center></font>|link=http://rsr.akvo.org/project/367/]] |[[Image:project 662.png|thumb|center|140px|<font size="2"><center>[http://rsr.akvo.org/project/662/ RSR Project 662]<br>WASH Alliance Policy Influencing Programme</center></font>|link=http://rsr.akvo.org/project/662/]] |} <br> ===Videos & links===* [http://www.indiawaterportal.org/articles/its-not-just-about-rape It's not just about rape!] Women need toilets, not only to protect themselves from rape but to also preserve their dignity and health. Sanitation is a fundamental human right and not just temporary media hype.
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