Rights-Based Approaches
Case studies that provide compelling conclusions about the differences between rights-based and more traditional projects, and their relative impacts. The failure to respect, protect, or fulfil human rights is a fundamental and leading obstacle to economic development and social justice. Practically speaking, however, we are still struggling to understand what this major organisational shift means. The term rights-based approaches; (RBAs) has become so familiar that we tend to assume that it is well- understood and that it is a foregone conclusion that rights-based approaches offer more potential for sustainable impact. This report presents the findings of a collaborative Learning Project between CARE USA and Oxfam America, who compared RBA projects with non-RBA projects and identified best practices; and lessons that could be used to improve the application of rights-based approaches in programming. In doing this they confirmed that rights-based approaches strengthen development work. For field-based staff, partners, and other development practitioners working on the design and implementation of rights-based projects.
Published: 2008
Pages: 134
eBook: 9780855988449
Paperback: 9780855986070
| FOREWORD | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ACRONYMS & TERMS | |||
| BACKGROUND | |||
| Rights-based Approaches | |||
| The RBA Learning Project | |||
| THE CASE STUDIES | |||
| ELEMENTS OF RBA PROJECTS | |||
| Thorough Analysis of Underlying Causes of Poverty, including Explicit and Ongoing Analyses of Power, Gender and Risk | |||
| Community-centered Development, including Building Sustainable Capacity to Claim Rights and to Drive Decision-making | |||
| Duty-bearers Engaged, Strengthened and Held Accountable | |||
| Advocacy for Sustainable Change in Policy and Practice | |||
| Alliance-building | |||
| Working at Multiple Levels | |||
| Focus on Groups that are Marginalized and Discriminated Against | |||
| Problems Framed as Rights Issues and Linked to International or National Standards | |||
| Conclusion | |||
| IMPACTS OF TRADITIONAL AND RBA PROJECTS | |||
| CATEGORIES OF RBA-ASSOCIATED IMPACTS | |||
| Effect Changes in Policy and Practice | |||
| Have Impacts at Multiple Levels | |||
| Affirm the Dignity of All Human Beings | |||
| Change Power Dynamics | |||
| Strengthen Civil Society to Claim Rights and to Hold Duty-bearers Accountable | |||
| Strengthen Peace and Personal Security | |||
| Open the Political Culture | |||
| Engender Greater Responsiveness, Responsibility and Accountability on the Part of Duty-bearers | |||
| Effect Fundamental and Sustainable Change | |||
| Conclusion | |||
| CHALLENGES AND NEXT STEPS IN THE JOINT LEARNING AGENDA | |||
| Adoption, Application and Learning | |||
| Monitoring and Evaluation | |||
| Conclusion | |||
| APPENDICES | |||
| A CASE STUDIES | |||
| A1 Ethiopia Make Trade Fair Coffee Campaign | |||
| A2 Guatemala Overcoming Racism and Discrimination through Active Participation by the Mayan People | |||
| A3 Bangladesh Locally Intensified Farming Enterprises and New Options for Pest Management | |||
| A4 Ethiopia Civil Society Capacity Strengthening | |||
| A5 Bangladesh Local Initiatives in Farmer Training | |||
| A6 Guatemala Economic, Political and Social Empowerment for Small Producers in Guatemala’s Central Highlands | |||
| A7 Ethiopia Rift Valley Irrigation | |||
| A8 Ethiopia Infrastructure Improvement/Urban Food-for-Work | |||
| B FACILITATOR’S GUIDE |
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