Community Programme 2022-2025
Co-Designed Human Rights Solutions
Following the success of our pilot programme in 2021 and 2022, BIHR received funding from the Baring Foundation to co-develop human rights support solutions with UK community groups to help them integrate HRA advocacy into their ongoing work to tackle specific issues affecting them and the people they support. This work is part of our UK-wide Communities Programme 2022-2025.
Co-production is at the heart of this offer. It sees community groups working with BIHR more intensively to support longer-term social change using a human rights-based approach, before eventually launching the co-designed advocacy tools on Human Rights Day each year.
How we made the solutions
This part of our UK Community Programme 2022-2025 involves:
Programmatic partnerships with CVGs to identify key concerns which can be mapped to the HRA rights and duties; and
Co-developing tailored support solutions to integrate HRA advocacy into their work tackling issues affecting their communities.
Co-production is at the core of this project. Our approach to co-design used a four-stage process to ensure that the views and opinions of our partners and the eventual end “users” of the solution were central to the development.
Stage 1: Discover
We host a workshop with community, campaigning and advocacy organisations across the UK who are interested in working with BIHR longer-term to support their human rights advocacy.
Following the workshop, we open applications and then use criteria to score each application and choose the top-scoring organisations to partner with. We have heard from so many fantastic organisations who wanted to work with us on this project.
Stage 2: Define
Selected partners are then invited to a "Define" workshop to further define their ideas for human rights support "solutions". Each organisation then works with a staff member to co-develop plans about what the "solution" will be and how we will work together.
Stage 3: Develop
We then work with the partner organisations to map, develop and test their human rights "solutions", ensuring that this will effectively support them with the issue they are facing.
Stage 4: Deliver
The final step is to publish and share the finished tools! Previously this has taken place on Human Rights Day at an event in the House of Lords.
Our community partners
From 2022-2025, BIHR has partnered with 14 different community and voluntary groups from across the UK. We were able to conclude our work with the four pilot organisations, as well as beginning new and exciting co-design projects with ten new groups. This has enabled the development of a wide variety of human rights based advocacy-tools, developed by and for community groups to be as relevant, practical and impactful as possible.
Scroll through the carousel below to find out more about our partner organisations and what we made. You can access digital versions of all 14 human rights support solutions for free by clicking on the partner pages.
The impact of these solutions
See below our impact reports from our pilot project
Our partners
Everyone at BIHR would like to say a massive thank you to our funders, the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, the Tudor Trust, the Bromley Trust, Comic Relief (Covid fund), and the Three Guineas Trust.
And thank you to our partner organisations for sharing your time, ideas and experiences with us, all of which helped bring these human rights workshops to life.
The future of this work
Our UK Communities Programme 2022-2025 has now come to an end.
BIHR is committed to continuing to support people and their communities to know about their human rights and have the confidence to talk about and advocate for their rights in everyday situations where they interact with public bodies. We are exploring how we can continue to provide this support free of charge to UK community groups.
BIHR is a leading provider of human rights training and support to individuals, community groups, and public bodies. Click the link below to download our training brochure and find out how to enquire with us.