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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.
* '''Duty to fulfill: going forward'''<br>
: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.
===Field experiences===
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|1image=rsr 475.jpg|1link=http://rsr.akvo.org/project/475/ |1project#=475|1project name=Health Village: WASH Monitoring Perspective|
|1image=rsr 477.jpg|1link=http://rsr.akvo.org/project/477/ |1project#=477|1project name=Creating an enabling environment for WASH|
|1image=rsr 495.jpg|1link=http://rsr.akvo.org/project/495/ |1project#=495|1project name=Sustainable progress in WASH|
|1image=rsr 767.jpg|1link=http://rsr.akvo.org/project/767/ |1project#=767|1project name=Access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene|
|1image=rsr 366.jpg|1link=http://rsr.akvo.org/project/366/ |1project#=366|1project name=WASH Sustainability through Women Led MFI|
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|[[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/]]
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===Water rights videos & links===