Reinventing Development?: Translating Rights-based Approaches from Theory Into PracticePaul Gready, Jonathan Ensor The recognition that the persistence of poverty is closely linked to the denial of human rights has propelled rights-based approaches into the policy and practice of many development NGOs, UN bodies and aid agencies. This book presents the practical experiences of development practitioners who have tried to apply a rights-based approach in their work. Its aim is to increase understanding of the approach by drawing on bottom-up insights, and to identify what difference a rights-based approach makes in practice. What is the 'value added' of a rights-based approach? What difficulties and tensions arise? The case-studies span development, humanitarian relief and conflict resolution. The book concludes that there is potential not only for human rights to reinvent development, but for development to reinvent human rights. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A human rightsbased approach to programming | 47 |
The experiences of Oxfam International and | 63 |
The case of CARE International in Rwanda | 79 |
Rights in practice assessing the impact of rightsbased | 99 |
Using rights to address conflict a valuable synergy | 108 |
Combating infant malnutrition an experience | 131 |
a perspective | 144 |
Reforms that benefit poor people practical solutions | 171 |
New foundations? Human rights and peacebuilding | 185 |
Rightsbased responses to aid politicization | 201 |
Rights as struggle towards a more just and humane | 233 |
Linking rights and culture implications for rights | 254 |
Conclusion | 278 |
Contributors | 301 |
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