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Part III provides eight tools to assist UNDP staff in building and/or strengthening
their work on minorities in development programming and conflict prevention efforts. The
tools are clustered as follows: Tool 1 – Checklist for Developing Programmes and Projects
on Minorities in Development; Tool 2 – Vulnerability Assessment; Tool 3 – HRBA
Causality Analysis; Tool 4 – Collecting Quantitative Ethnic Data; Tool 5 – Survey Design,
Data Collection and Sampling Method: Case Example from UNDP Ukraine; Tool 6 –
Measuring ‘Ethnic Distance’; Tool 7 – Early Warning on Minorities and Conflict; Tool 8 –
Integrating Minorities into the UNDP Programme Cycle.
Tool 1 – Checklist for developing programmes and projects on minorities in
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This tool can be used for collecting a range of baseline information to help build
activities to promote and protect rights of minorities. It draws from an Information Note
developed by OHCHR for its staff and other practitioners, with the support of the InterAgency Group on Minorities. Several sections address the needs and rights of particular
minority groups, including displaced minorities, minority women, and religious minorities.
In its final part it offers guidelines on how the United Nations can support the effective
participation of persons belonging to minorities.
Tool 2 – Vulnerability assessments
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This tool has been adapted from the UNDP Toolkit for a Human Rights Based
Approach and Gender Analysis for Local Governance. It was developed by UNDP Bosnia
and Herzegovina’s Rights-based Municipal Development Programme (RMAP) project. It
includes a “Vulnerable Groups List”, which is an extensive list of pertinent indicators and
questions for identifying potentially vulnerable groups and assess likely human rights
issues affecting them in the country context. The list includes groups such as women,
persons with disabilities, national minorities, Roma, displaced persons, refugees and
returnees, children, the elderly, trafficked persons, detainees, HIV positive persons,
homosexuals and the very poor. The Vulnerability Assessment for Roma is provided as an
example of how to target assessment to a specific minority group. The questions can be
adapted for other minorities.
Tool 3 – HRBA causality analysis
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The UN Common Learning Package on the Human Rights-Based Approach
(HRBA) has developed a causality analysis process. To make a development intervention
produce sustainable results, activities need to address the root causes of discrimination and
inequalities. This tool aims at highlighting the underlying causes to non-fulfilled rights and
development challenges. It analyzes not only the immediate causes for a situation but also
the underlying and structural causes of social exclusion, poverty, discrimination or any
other condition related to non-fulfilment of human rights. This tool can be useful for
determining root causes of the marginalization of minority groups. It proposes the Problem
Tree/Objectives Tree to facilitate causal analysis.
Tool 4 – Challenges in collecting quantitative ethnic data
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This tool was developed by the UNDP Regional Centre for Europe and
Commonwealth of Independent States. It draws from the experiences of data collection on
minority groups, including innovative surveys conducted in support of the UNDP Regional
Human Development Report on the Roma, “Avoiding the Dependency Trap” (2003) and
“At Risk: Roma and the Displaced in Southeast Europe” (2006). This tool provides a
detailed introduction to the approaches and challenges of collecting disaggregated data by
ethnicity, religion and/or language. It provides guiding principles for new data collection on
minorities such as household incomes and expenditures and in labour force surveys
disaggregated by ethnicity or religion.
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