Doing the Rights Thing: Rights-Based Development and Latin American Ngos - Couverture souple

Molyneux, Maxine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1853395684 ISBN 13 : 9781853395680

Editeur : Practical Action Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Molyneux is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Practical Action Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1853395684
• ISBN 13: 9781853395680
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible