Doing the Rights Thing
Rights-based development and Latin American NGOs
What is 'rights-based development'? How is it being put into practice in different contexts? What is its potential to achieve more equitable and effective development outcomes? Governments, development agencies and NGOs concerned with poverty alleviation have increasingly sought to integrate rights into their work. The term 'rights-based development' has been coined to describe these efforts but there is limited understanding of how such approaches are being worked out in practice. The authors examine the ways in which rights-based strategies have been understood in development practice in Latin America. They stress the political and personal nature of development especially the importance of enabling people to make their own demands of the state and other institutions. Rights-based development work has involved combining ideas of citizenship, democracy, participation and empowerment in novel ways. This book contributes to the creation of a fuller understanding of this approach to development and reveals the potential that it offers in ongoing efforts to secure more equitable as well as more effective and inclusive development outcomes.
Published: 2003
Pages: 176
eBook: 9781780441122
Paperback: 9781853395680
| Prelims (Contents, Acknowledgements, List of figures, tables and boxes, List of acronyms and abbreviations) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Introduction | |||
| 2. Rights in development: conceptual issues | |||
| 3. Latin America: the right(s) time and the right(s) place | |||
| 4. NGOs and rights approaches | |||
| 5. Implementing rights: participation, empowerment and governance | |||
| 6. Campaigning for rights: violence against women and women’s citizenship | |||
| 7. Meeting challenges: problems with rights | |||
| 8. Consequences: organizational implications of the shift to rights | |||
| 9. Case studies | |||
| 10. Conclusions | |||
| Back Matter (Appendix: NGOs in this book, Endnotes, References, Index) |
Maxine Molyneux
Molyneux is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
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