Topic: Strengthens and Weaknesses in Human Rights- Based Approaches to Developing Vulnerable Communities in Society.
Authors: Priya S.Lakshmi 
Published: February 2025

This research study outlines the core concepts of
human rights-based approaches (HRBAs) and
explores their evolutions of human rights-based
approaches to development including Vulnerable
the United Nations (UN) commitment to integrate
human rights into all its works, national
development plans, the role of socio-economic
rights in development problem analysis, impact
assessment, and key challenges to undertaking
human rights-based development. This study also
highlights the issue of measurement of human
rights change as a critical factor in development
planning, implementation, and evolution towards
ensuring accountability for both process and
impact. Further scoping review was conducted to
collate empirical research on HRBA on developing
countries and was aimed in this attempt by
reviewing several studies published in various
years to discern the patterns in current
understandings and explore the operations and
contribution of HRBAs. Overall, development
practices in the name of HRBAs varied
considerably. The vulnerable communities are
groups with distinct social, cultural, economic,
and/or political traditions and institutions that
disadvantage them in the development process.
Examples of vulnerable communities include
indigenous people, Schedule Castes, and
economically poor people. Empowering
communities lies at the heart of sustainable
development, a dynamic process that seeks to
improve the wellbeing of current and future
generations. In the pursuit of sustainable
development, empowering communities goes
beyond interventions. It involves encouraging self
reliance, inclusiveness. Empowering vulnerable
communities is the process of helping people in the
vulnerable groups improve their skills and potential
so that they contribute to their communities and
improve their living conditions like providing them
access to resources; Create an enabling ecosystem;
Use serious games; Use a peer-to-peer model,
Further empowering the communities involves
creating opportunities for at-risk groups and
supporting their needs in the ways of providing
support services for strengthening the capacity of
civil society organizations, promoting the inclusion
of people with disabilities and expand their
opportunities, Raising awareness about trafficking
in prisons and promote safe job searches,
improving assistance to and reintegration of
victims of trafficking, providing access to decent
and energy-efficient housing, address energy and
transport poverty, reforming electricity markets in a
way that works for people, ensuring vulnerable
communities and underrepresented people are
meaningfully involved in political discourse and
decision making on green and social policies.
Likewise the ILO, WHO are taking efforts for
empowering the downtrodden vulnerable
communities throughout the world. Similarly as of
our Indian Nation the Constitutional law is securing
them in all round with the significant Articles 14,
15, 19, 21, 23, 24, 40, and Art.13 and CBID
(Community Based Inclusive Development
Programme) for development of Physically
challenged persons in India, and the ILO's other
projects like C-BED (Community Based Enterprise
Development), Workers and employers
organizations, International non government
organization, local community based-associations
are acting as Project partners to success its aims
and goals above without any discrimination.
International Journal of Advances in Engineering and Management (IJAEM)
Volume 7, Issue 02 Feb. 2025, pp: 311-321 www.ijaem.net ISSN: 2395-5252
DOI: 10.35629/5252-0702311321 |Impact Factorvalue 6.18| ISO 9001: 2008 Certified Journal Page 312
Empowering communities for sustainable
developments is a transformative journey that
involves addressing challenges, fostering
inclusivity, and recognizing the agency of
individuals within a community. Strategies that
encompass education, economic empowerment,
environmental sustainability, and cultural
sensitivity create a holistic framework for
community development. As communities become
empowered, the impact is not only evident in
improved living conditions but also in the
development of resilient, self reliant, and dynamic
societies. Through collaborative efforts, innovative
approaches, and a commitment to inclusivity, the
empowerment of communities becomes a beacon
of hope for a more sustainable and equitable future.
From the above empowerment is a planned effort
designed to change or reform an individual or
community/society from a state of powerlessness to
become empowered with an emphasis on
independence. This study aims to be able to see
how strategies can be carried out to empower the
community. This research data used in this study
came from various previous studies and research
results obtained through the literature study
method. The results of this study then found that
community empowerment is an approach that aims
to change conditions of powerlessness to become
empowered through increasing independence and
active participation. This concept involves
providing access to resources, knowledge, and
skills to the community so they can play a role in
managing development and determining their
future direction. Although different challenges and
contexts need attention, empowerment remains an
important key in achieving sustainable
development.