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Short Summary
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| Title |
Doing the Rights Thing – Rights-Based Development
and Latin American NGOs |
| Author |
Molyneux, M., and Lazar, S. |
| Publication
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March 2003 |
| Publisher |
ITDG publishing, London |
| Donor |
Department for International Development (DFID)
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Short Summary |
What is 'rights-based development' and how is
it practiced in different contexts? This book looks at the origins
of rights-based approaches (RBA) and how they have been understood
and applied in Latin America. NGOs working with women and indigenous
people in Mexico, Peru, Nicaragua and Bolivia have found the approach
useful. This is because RBA links the principles of democracy to participation
and empowerment and gives legitimacy to the claims to resources (economic,
political, judicial and social) made by low income and disempowered
groups. Under RBA people are viewed as agents of change and their
relationship to those working in development moves from 'beneficiary'
to 'user'. Rights-based development is best seen as an underlying
philosophy which envelopes economic, social and cultural as well as
civil and political rights. It is most successful when it responds
to the priorities of locally-based democratic movements and groups.
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