Rights-Based Approaches to Development: Exploring the Potential and Pitfalls

by Hickey,Sam

• ISBN13: 9781565492837
• ISBN10: 1565492838
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-05-15
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner

Summary

* Comprehensive summary and case studies of major of rights-based approach to development * Arranged in point/counterpoint format The associations between human rights and the work of development activists didn't receive widespread attention from international development agencies until the mid to late 1990s. The most visible sign that attitudes were changing occurred when the UN held its World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen in 1995. From that point on, rights became a stated objective of most agencies, regardless of the level of effort they actually spent in incorporating these ideas into their activities. Now, over a decade after that crucial turning point, Rights-Based Approaches to Developmentreflects on the effect of the development community's major shift in focus from market-based frameworks to a rights-based one. Contributors, both academics and practitioners, reflect on their experience with rights-based development activities. They draw out the current debates, theoretical and practical concerns and achievements, and larger implications about poverty and the relationship between citizens and the state. With powerful insights into where the development community has been and where it needs to go, Rights-Based Approaches to Developmentis critical to understanding the role of social justice in the context of development.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
The Rise of Rights-Based Approaches to Development
Introduction	p. 3
Linking Rights and Development: Some Critical Challenges	p. 21
The Rights of the Rich versus the Rights of the Poor	p. 31
Rights, Governmentality, and Citizenship
Exploring a Political Approach to Rights-Based Development in North West Cameroon: From Rights and Marginality to Citizenship and Justice	p. 49
Recognition or Misrecognition? Pitfalls of Indigenous Peoples' Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC)	p. 69
Do Rights-Based Approaches Offer a Pro-Poor Route to Development?
Property Rights and Rights-Based Sustainable Livelihoods	p. 87
Reinterpreting the Rights-Based Approach: A Grassroots Perspective on Rights and Development	p. 107
From Voluntarism to Empowerment?
Rethinking Agency, Rights, and Natural Resource Management	p. 127
"We Are Also Human": Identity and Power in Gender Relations	p. 145
The Operational Implications of Rights-Based Approaches
Rights-Based Development: The Challenges of Change and Power for Development NGOs Jennifer Chapman in collaboration	p. 165
The "Human Rights-Based Approach to Programming": A Contradiction in Terms?	p. 187
Conclusions and Ways Forward
The Potential and Pitfalls of Rights-Based Approaches to Development	p. 209
Contributors	p. 231
Index	p. 235
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