Rights Based Approach requires identification of issues to make a need based
assessment, only after that the proper formation and implementation of a programme can be done successfully. RBA identifies and addresses rights based issue to achieve goals adopted by MDG:

The Millennium Development Goals

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

          Target 1: Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day

          Target 2: Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

2. Achieve universal primary education

          Target 3: Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling

3. Promote gender equality and empower women

          Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015

4. Reduce child mortality

          Target 5: Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five

5. Improve maternal health

          Target 6: Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio

6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

          Target 7: Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS

          Target 8: Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

7. Ensure environmental sustainability

          Target 9: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources

          Target 10: Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water

          Target 11: Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020

8. Develop a global partnership for development

          Target 12: Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule- based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction— nationally and internationally

          Target 13: Address the least developed countries’ special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for            countries committed to poverty reduction

          Target 14: Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States

          Target 15: Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term

          Target 16: In cooperation with the developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth

          Target 17: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries

          Target 18: In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of  new technologies—especially information and communications technologies