Research Catalog

Title

Rights-based approaches learning project / [authors, Jude Rand with Gabrielle Watson].

Author

Rand, Jude.

Publication

Boston, MA : Oxfam America ; Atlanta, GA : CARE USA, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

• Watson, Gabrielle.
• CARE (Firm)
• Oxfam America.

Description

128 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

"Following case-specific analysis, 26 experienced CARE and Oxfam practitioners gathered for an RBA Learning Workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. They identified eight elements that they deem to characterize rights-based projects, as well as the types of impact that RBA projects are likely to have on people's lives, on civil society and on governance structures. A comparison of the eight elements identified by this project with the features of the rights-based approaches as identified within other RBA frameworks reveals that rights-based approaches differ from traditional approaches in three principal ways: 1) RBA projects frame problems as rights, linked to international, national or customary standards; 2) they emphasize capacity and agency of rights-holders; and 3) they engage and hold duty-bearers accountable for meeting their obligations." "This publication presents the conclusions of the 26 seasoned development practitioners as drawn out through an analysis of the eight cases and a rigorous workshop methodology. The conclusions offer one set of informed assessments about the differences between the two approaches and their relative impacts." "This document is not a theoretical treatise on the meaning of RBA. It is not written for the development theorist. It is written for the field-based development practitioner who is struggling to understand what adopting a rights-based approach means for her or his work, and what promise it may hold for poor and marginalized communities. Through the examination of specific projects that were either designed to be rights-based or were later revised to adopt the approach, readers are given the opportunity to learn and to explore issues through the trials, experiences and findings of others"--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Social rights
• Human rights
• Economic development projects
• Poverty

Contents

1. Background -- 2. The case studies -- 3. Elements of RBA projects -- 4. Impacts of traditional and RBA projects -- 5. Categories of RBA-associated impacts -- 6. Challenges and next steps in the joint learning agenda.

ISBN

• 9780855986070
• 0855986077

LCCN

40015620485

OCLC

• ocn154754286
• SCSB-5417587

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries