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FOR WHOM? The primary target groups of this product are UNDP country office practitioners and those with policy advisory responsibilities. However, it may also serve as a reference document for other UN agencies, multilateral organisations, Government counterparts, and civil society organisations. The document is meant to enable the target group(s) to understand the conceptual issues and fundamental principles relating to the promotion and protection of minorities, learn how to draw on the available international and regional standards to engage minorities in development programming processes, influence policy choices, as well as increase their opportunities for meaningful participation and representation in development processes. HOW TO USE? The Resource Guide and Toolkit has been divided as follows: Chapter 1 provides a summary of the key justifications and strategies for ensuring the inclusion of minorities in development. This chapter also addresses: Why is it important for UNDP to address minority issues? What steps can UNDP take to respond to minority issues? Part I (Chapter 2 - Chapter 3) examines the key conceptual issues and fundamental principle+s for the promotion and protection of minority rights. Part II (Chapter 4 - Chapter 5 - Chapter 6 - Chapter 7) reviews programming opportunities and relevant strategies for UNDP to integrate minorities in development, including capacity development support for government officials and institutions, UNDP staff, minorities, as well as possible entry points for effective advocacy and partnership building efforts. Detailed attention is given to opportunities and strategies in UNDP practice areas. Several UNDP and country examples are also provided. Part III (Chapter 8 - Chapter 9 - Chapter 10) provides eight tools to assist UNDP staff in building and/or strengthening their work on minorities in development. The tools are clustered as follows: Situation Analysis (Tool 1 - Checklist for Developing Programmes and Projects on Minorities in Development; Tool 2 - Vulnerability Assessment; and Tool 3 - HRBA Causality Analysis); Data Collection (Tool 4 - Challenges in Collecting Quantitative Ethnic Data; and Tool 5 - Survey Design, Data Collection and Sampling Method: Case Example from UNDP Ukraine); Monitoring and Evaluation (Tool 6- Measuring ‘Ethnic Distance’; Tool 7 - Early Warning on Minorities and Conflict; and Tool 8 - Integrating Minorities into the UNDP Programme Cycle). Part IV (Chapter 11 - Chapter 12) provides an overview of the international legal standards and mechanisms relevant for minority rights and regional summaries of minority rights protection. The Annexes provide reference materials on: UN Declaration on the Rights of National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities; Selected Conclusions and Recommendations on Minority Rights from UN Treaty Bodies; Listing of papers of the former UN Working Group on Minorities and the present UN Independent Expert on minority issues; Pamphlets in the UN Guide for Minorities (by theme, by country/region); Major studies or reports of the former UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights; Further recommended reading on minority issues; and useful websites on minority issues. This Resource Guide and Toolkit complements, inter alia, the UNDG Guidelines on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues (2008) and the UN-DESA Resource Kit on Indigenous Peoples Issues (2008). The UNDG Guidelines outline many similar policy recommendations in addition to the particular rights and issues of concern to indigenous peoples. |
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The poorest communities in almost any region tend to be minority communities that have been targets of long-standing discrimination, exclusion and sometimes violence. 
Meaningful progress towards sustainable human development, inclusion and stability can bebetter achieved through measures that promote and protect human rights...
This Resource Guide and Toolkit, led by a Task Force, has benefited from the contributions
of a vast number of colleagues from UNDP and the UNOHCHR.