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Date Added to
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Short Summary
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| Title |
Development of a Rights Based Monitoring Tool
for CARE Malawi |
| Author |
Goulden, J. and Glyde, S. |
| Publication
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March 2004 |
| Publisher |
CARE International UK |
| Donor |
CARE International UK |
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Short 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. The annexes of the report provide more detailed
inputs to and results of the workshop and can be downloaded separately:
http://www.careinternational.org.uk/resource_centre/humanrights/malawi_report_annexes.pdf
For a copy of this publication, please contact: CARE International
Secretariat, 7-9 Chemin de Balexert 1219 Chatelaine Switzerland, Tel:
+ 41 22 795 10 20 Fax : + 41 22 795 10 29, E-mail: info@care-international.org,
Web site: http://www.care-international.org. |
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