Reinventing Development?: Translating Rights-Based Approaches from Theory into Practice

by Paul Gready, Jonathan Ensor

Overview

This volume aims to identify what difference a rights-based approach makes in practice, and to contribute to a greater common understanding of what the rights-based approach means. These are urgent tasks given the amount of funding for and organizational investment in human rights. Addressing the range of areas influenced by this approach, the volume spans humanitarian relief, development and conflict resolution. It concludes that not only is human rights reinventing development, but development is also reinventing human rights.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781842776490
Publisher:	Zed Books
Publication date:	01/14/2006
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Paul Gready is a Senior lecturer in Human Rights at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. Jonathan Ensor works as Research and Information Office at the Immigration Advisory Service, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Paul Gready and Jonathan Ensor

SECTION 1: CASE STUDIES: AFRICA
1. A Human Rights-Based Approach to Programming (HRBAP) - Urban Jonsson (UNICEF)
2. The Experiences of Oxfam International and its Affiliates in Rights-based Programming and Campaigning - Marjolein Brouwer, Heather Grady, Valerie Traore, and Dereje Wordofa (Oxfam)
3. The Case of CARE International in Rwanda - Andrew Jones (CARE)
4. Rights in Practice - Assessing the Impact of Rights-Based Training in Uganda - Pamela Ashanut Okille (independent consultant)
5. Using Human Rights to Address Conflict: A Valuable Synergy - Ghalib Galant and Michelle Parlevliet (Centre for Conflict Resolution, Cape Town)

SECTION 2: CASE STUDIES: LATIN AMERICA, ASIA AND EUROPE
6. Combating Infant Malnutrition - An Experience of Networking in the Social Struggle for the Human Rights to Food and Sustainable Nutrition - Martha Antunes and Jorge O. Romano (ActionAid)
7. Rights, Development and Democracy: A Perspective from India - Supryia Akerkar (ActionAid)
8. Children's Participation, Civil Rights and Power - Joachim Theis and Claire O'Kane (Save the Children Fund)
9. Reforms That Benefit Poor People - Practical Solutions and Dilemmas of Rights-based Approaches to Legal and Justice Reform - Amparo Tomas (UNDP)
10. New Foundations? Human Rights and Peace-Building in Northern Ireland - Neil Jarman (Institute for Conflict Research, Belfast)

SECTION 3: CURRENT CHALLENGES
11. Rights-Based Responses to Aid Politicization in Afghanistan - Paul O'Brien
12. Rights as Struggle: Towards a More Just and Humane World - Harsh Mander
13. Linking Rights and Culture: Implications for Rights-Based Approaches - Jonathan Ensor
14. Conclusion - Olivia Ball
Index