| Short Summary | | Title | Development of a Rights Based Monitoring Tool for CARE Malawi | | Author | Goulden, J. and Glyde, S. | | Publication Date | March 2004 | | Publisher | CARE International UK | | Summary | Understanding discrimination is the key to understanding and combating the barriers faced by the poor and marginalised to realising their rights and achieving sustainable livelihoods. Discrimination is defined as treating someone differently especially because of one's own feelings or prejudices about, for example, a person's sex, race, and religion. Committed to mainstreaming a rights-based approach into their work, CARE International and CARE Malawi teams worked together for a week to design and test an appropriate community-based tool to monitor levels of discrimination. Initially two participatory approaches were tested. One focuses on capturing community understandings of discrimination and developing community-defined indicators for tracking changes. The other focuses on getting communities to visualise and describe a society without discrimination, where everyone is included and respected. After testing with communities, the teams decided to combine the best aspects of both methods. This report documents the detail of the process to develop and test these two approaches, the concepts that informed the teams' thinking, the local legal and institutional frameworks within which they were working, the main results of the testing, the revised methodology, reflections, and a plan of action for further testing.
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