Human Rights Approach in Poverty Alleviation Programmes

Abstract

The present paper focuses on the extent of human rights approach in the implementation process of various Poverty Alleviation Programmes (PAPs) in Tamil Nadu. The study was carried out on a sample of900 beneficiaries of various PAPs selected from three different districts of Tamil Nadu. The adoption of human rights approach was measured based on a set of human rights indicators developed for each of the PAPs. The opinion of women beneficiaries on each of the indicators was placed on a three-point scale ranging from Oto 2. A score of 2 was given for the presence of an indicator mostly, 1 for sometimes andO for never.