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Implementation of RBA
Specific
Topics in RBA
Introduction
to RBA: (15 documents)
The
Convention on the Elmination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
and the Optional Protocol,
Association
for Women's Rights in Development, August 2002
The
International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Association
for Women's Rights in Development, August 2002
"A
Rights-based Approach to Development" Association
for Women's Rights to Development,
August 2002
The
Application of a Human Rights Based Approach to Development Programming:
What is the Added Value? Patrick
van Weerelt. United Nations Development Programme, 2000.
Brief
Introduction to Rights Programming Joachim
Theis. Save the Children Sweden, August 2003.
Circle
of Rights: Economic, Social & Cultural Rights Activism: A Training
Resource
International Human Rights Internship Program and Asian Forum for Human
Rights and Development, 2000.
Human Rights and Human Development Amartya
Sen. Human Development Report 2000.
Human
Rights and Human Development Workshops United
Nations Development Programme. New York, July 6-7, 2000.
A
Human Rights Based Approach to Development Programming in UNDP: The Missing
Link United
Nations Development Programme, July 2001.
A
Human Rights Conceptual Framework for UNICEF Marta
Santos Pais. UNICEF, 1999.
Realizing
the Right to Development Arjun
Sengupta. Development and Change, Vol. 31, 2000.
The
Rights-Based Approach to Development: Fashion or Future?
Intrac. Ontrac
No. 23, January 2003.
Rights-based
Approaches to Development: An Overview of the Field
Chris Jochnick and
Pauline Garzon. CARE and Oxfam America, October 2002.
The
Rise of Rights: Rights-based Approaches to International Development
Rosalind Eyben. Institute
of Development Studies. IDS Policy Briefing, Issue 17, May 2003.
Definitions
of a Rights-Based Approach to Development InterAction,
December 2003.
RBA
and Development: (19 documents)
Re-Interpreting
the Rights-Based Approach – A Grass-Roots Perspective
on Rights and Development Diana
Mitlin, IDPM, University of Manchester, Sheela Patel, SPARC,
India February 2005
Kenyan
Civil Society Perspectives on Rights, Rights-based approaches to
development, and participation. Celestine
Nyamu-Musembi and Samuel Mysoki, Institute of Development Studies,
December 2004
Promoting
Rights-based Approaches Experiences and Ideas from Asia and the
Pacific
by Joachim Theis, Save the Children
Human
Rights in Developing Countries: How can development cooperation contribute
to furthering their advancement. International Policy
Dialogue, convened by the Development Policy Forum of InWEnt--Capacity
Building International, Germany and the Federal Ministry for Economic
Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in cooperation with the German Development
Institute (GDI). September 2003
"Civil
Society, Community Participation and Empowerment in the Era of Globalization"
by Marilyn Waring, Association for Women's Rights in Development, May
2004
"A
Rights-Based Approach to Development" in Human Rights and Development,
Peter Uvin. Kumarian Press, 2004.
Human
Rights and Poverty Reduction: A Conceptual Framework"
by OHCR, 2004.
Can Development
Work Without Human Rights? Global
Future: A World Vision Journal of Human Development, 2003.
The
Human Rights Framework for Development: Seven Approaches
Stephen P. Marks. Working
Paper No. 18. François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human
Rights, Harvard University, 2003.
The
Nexus Between Development and Human Rights The
Fletcher Journal of International Development, Vol. XVII, 2002.
Obstacles
to the Right to Development Stephen
P. Marks. Working Paper No. 17. François-Xavier Bagnoud Center
for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University, 2003.
Realising
Human Rights for Poor People: Strategies for Achieving the International
Development Targets UK
Department of International Development, October 2000.
The
Right to Development: A Review of the Current State of the Debate for
the Department of International Development Laure-Hélène
Piron. Overseas Development Institute, 2002.
To
Claim Our Rights: Livelihood Security, Human Rights and Sustainable Development
Caroline Moser and
Andy Norton. Overseas Development Institute, June 2001.
What
Can We Do with a Rights-based Approach to Development?
Briefing Paper. Overseas
Development Institute, September 1999.
What
Role do NGOs Play in Alleviating Chronic Poverty? Emma
Harris-Curtis. Paper for the IDPM Chronic Poverty Conference,
April 2003.
Economic
Theory, Freedom and Human Rights: The Work of Amartya Sen Briefing
Paper. Overseas Development Institute, November 2001.
The
Ends and Means of Sustainability Amartya
Sen. Keynote Address at the International Conference on Transition
to Sustainability, May 2000.
The
Right to Development as a Human Right Arjun
Sengupta. Working Paper No. 7. François-Xavier Bagnoud
Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University, 2000
(revised).
Development
Agency Perspectives on RBA: (8
documents)
Rights-Based Development: The Challenge of Change and
Power Jennifer Chapman, Valerie Miller, Adriano Campolina
Soares, and John Samuel, February 2005
The Human Rights Based Approach to Development Cooperation: Towards a
Common Understanding Among the UN Agencies UN,
April 2003.
The
Implications of Adopting Rights-Based Approaches for Northern NGOs: A
Preliminary Exploration Emma
Harris-Curtis. Intrac, August 2003.
A
Rights-Based Approach to Development: From Theory to Practice—A
DFID Perspective Rosalind
Eyben, Rogert Wilson, and Sarah Beeching. Overseas Development Institute,
February 1999.
A
Rights-Based Approach to Development: What the Policy Documents of the
UN, Development Cooperation and NGO Agencies Say Susan
Appleyard. UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Asia-Pacific.
September 2002.
The
Second Interagency Workshop on Implementing a Human Rights-based Approach
in the Context of UN Reform Report.
United Nations, May 2003.
Strengthening Human Rights-Related United Nations Action at Country Level—National
Human Rights Promotion and Protection Systems: Plan of Action
United Nations, September
2003.
United
Nations Development Programme and Human Rights: Questions and Answers
United Nations Development
Programme.
Case
Studies: (7 documents)
Putting
Rights-Based Development into Context: CARE’s programming
Approaches in Malawi and Bangladesh,
Brigitte Bode, CARE Bangladesh, Jay Goulden, CARE International UK,
Elisa Martinez, CARE USA, Francis Lwanda, CARE Malawi, February 2005.
Human Rights Based Approach to Development in Practice: Some Lessons
Learned from the Rights-Based Municipal Assessment and Planning Project
in Bosnia and Herzegovina Laure-Anne Courdesse, Office of the
High Commissioner for Human Rights and Sarah Hemingway, Nottingham
Human Rights Law Center, February 2005.
The Transformation of the Quality of Life
Through Human Rights-Based Approach Community Based Integrated Management
of Childhood Illness Kamchezdera, Garton, The Government
of Malawi, UNICEF, Department for International Development, May
2003.
CARE's
Experience with Adoption of a Rights-Based Approach: Five Case Studies
CARE International,
2003.
Human
Rights and Human Development: Learning from Those Who Act
Nadia Hijab. Human
Development Report 2000, background paper. United Nations Development
Programme, 2000.
Peru Case
Study: A Human Rights Approach UNICEF,
March 2002.
Saving
Women's Lives: A Call to Rights-Based Action UNICEF,
2000.
RBA
and Budget: (6 documents)
"Applied
Budget Analysis and Economic Social and Cultural Rights"
The International Budget Project
Monitoring
government budgets to advance child rights: a guide for NGOs
Judith Streak with IDASA
Power
Without Accountability? Hetty
Kovach, Caroline Neligan and Simon Burall. Global Accountability Report
1, Executive Summary. One World Trust, 2003.
What's
Behind the Budget? Politics, Rights and Accountability in the Budget Process
Andy Norton and Diane Elson. Overseas Development Institute, June 2002.
Promesas
Que Cumplir: El Presupuesto Publico Como Herramienta Para Promover Los
Derechos Economicos, Sociales Y Culturales
Jim Schultz, Centro para la Democracia, January 2002 (English
version)
A
Rights-Based Approach towards Budget Analysis
Maria Socorro I. Diokno. International Human Rights Internship Program,
Institute of International Education, 1999.
RBA
and Children: (7 documents)
“The State of the World’s
Children 2005” UNICEF,
December 2004
"Being,
Becoming and Relationship: Conceptual Challenges of a Child Rights
Approach to Development" Sarah C. White, University of Bath
Child
Rights Programming: A Training Manual Developed in Eastern and Central
Africa Tibebu
Bogale. Save the Children Sweden, January 2002.
Children
and Young People as Citizens: Partners in Social Change
International Save
the Children Alliance, South and Central Asia, 2004.
Children First in the Poverty Battle! A Review of Poverty Reduction Strategy
Papers in the Southern African Region, from a Child Rights Perspective
Shirley Robinson. Save
the Children Sweden, March 2003.
Focused
Especially on the Well-Being of Children: An Integrated Paradigm for Transformational
Development
A Study of the Children in Ministry Working Group. World Vision, 2002
(second printing).
Invisible Children? Towards Integration of Children in EU and Member States'
Development Co-operation Policies
RBA
and the Environment: (1 document)
Poverty
and Climate Change: Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor through Adaptation
Prepared by: African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, UK Department
for International Development, European Commission Directorate-General
for Development, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and
Development, Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Development Cooperation,
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, United Nations
Development Programme, United Nations Environment Programme, and the World
Bank, 2003.
RBA
and Food: (2 documents)
Third
Submission of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food to the Intergovernmental
Working Group (IGWG) for the Voluntary Guidelines on the Right to Adequate
Food Jean
Ziegler. United Nations Commission on Human Rights, October 2003.
Voluntary
Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate
Food in the Context of National Food Security Draft
by Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG), Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations. Second Session, Rome, October 27-29, 2003.
RBA
and Gender: (4 documents)
The
Convention on the Elmination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
and the Optional Protocol,
Association for Women's Rights in Development, August 2002
Passport
to Dignity. People's Movement for Human Rights Education
Silence
Breaking: The Women's Dimension of the Human Rights Box
Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. Human Rights
Dialogue, Series 2, No. 3, summer 2000.
Tough
Row to Hoe: Can CEDAW's Optional Protocol Help Muslim Women in Rural Bangladesh
Realize Their Right to Development? Christina
M. Harrison. The Fletcher Journal of International Development,
Vol. XVII, 2002.
RBA
and Governance: (2 documents)
Local
Rule: Decentralisation and Human Rights International
Council on Human Rights Policy, 2002.
RBA
and Health: (13 documents)
Challenges
in the Implementation of Women’s
Human Rights: Field Perspectives on Domestic Violence and HIV/AIDS Sarah
Forti, COWI/AS, Kampala, Uganda, February 2005
Developing Human Rights Based Approach to Addressing
Maternal Mortality K. Hawkins,
K. Newman, D. Thomas, C. Carlson; the British Government’s
Department of International Development (DFID), January 2005
"The
Right to Health: An Interview with Professor Paul Hunt." Essex
Human Rights Review, vol 2, no. 1, 2005.
"Tsunamis,
Millennium Development Goals, and Health Professionals, Strategising
for monitoring the Right to Health," International Federation
of Health and Human Rights Organisations, Elizabeth Solomon,
January 2005
Towards a Just, Rights-Based
and Sustainable Food System presentation by Caroline
Dommen at the Sustaining a Future for Agriculture Conference,
November 2004.
Database
on Health and Human Rights Actors, World Health Organization
"Outlook:
A Rights-based Approach to Reproductive Health"
PATH, December 2003
Human
Rights and Maternal Mortality
Workshop Report. UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia. Kathmandu, Nepal,
June 27-29, 2002.
Human
Rights Dialogue: Rights and the Struggle for Health
Carnegie Council on
Ethics and International Affairs. Series 2, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2001.
Saving
Women's Lives: A Call to Rights-Based Action UNICEF,
2000.
25 Questions and Answers on Health and Human Rights
World Health Organization.
Health and Human Rights Publication Series, No. 1, July 2002.
RBA
and HIV/AIDS (7 documents)
HIV/AIDS
and Human Rights in the Context of 3 by 5: Time for a New Direction? Canadian
HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review, August 2004
HIV/AIDS
and Human Rights: A Legaslative Audit in Nepal, Forum for Women,
Law, and Development, March 2004
"Focus--AIDS
and Human Rights: The Need for Protection" in UNAIDS
2004 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic UNAIDS, July 2004.
"Human
Rights and HIV/AIDS" from HIV InSite Knowledge
Base Chapter Sofia Gruskin, MD, MIA and Daniel Tarantola, MD April 2002
"HIV/AIDS,
Human Rights, and Law" UNAIDS website
"Special
Session of the General Assembly on HIV/AIDS, Round table 2, HIV/AIDS and
Human Rights" United Nations, A/s-26/RT.2, June
2001
RBA
and Human Security: (1 document)
Human
Security Now: Protecting and Empowering People Commission
on Human Security, May 2003.
RBA
Information: (1 document)
Right
to Information: Practical Guide Note, United Nations Development
Program, July 2004
RBA
and Land Use: (3 documents)
A Missing Point in the Livelihoods Approach: The Question
of Property Rights Leonith Hinojosa, Institute for
Development Policy and Management, Manchester, UK, February 2005
In
the Eyes of the State: Negotiating a 'Rights-Based Approach' to
Forest Conservation in Thailand Craig Johnson
and Timothy Forsyth. World Development, Vol. 30, No. 9, 2002.
Perspectives on Pastoral
Development: A Casebook from Kenya Isobel
Birch and Halima A. O. Shuria. Oxfam GB, 2001.
RBA
and the Rule of Law: (2 documents)
Protecting Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
in the Inter-American Human Rights System: A Manual on Presenting Claims, by Tara Melish ,
The Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at the
Yale Law School and the Center for Economic and Social Rights, 2002
Beyond
Rule of Law Orthodoxy: The Legal Empowerment Alternative
Stephen Golub. Working Paper No. 41, Rule of Law Series. Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace, October 2003.
RBA
and Specific Groups/Populations: (1 document)
Avoiding
the Dependency Trap: The Roma in Central and Eastern Europe
Regional Human Development Report. United Nations Development Programme,
December 2002.
RBA and Trade (5
documents)
“Planting
the Rights Seed: A human rights perspective on agriculture trade
and the WTO,” 3D -Trade - Human Rights
- Equitable Economy, December 2004.
"The
WTO, International Trade, and Human Rights," by Caroline
Dommen., 3D -Trade - Human Rights - Equitable Economy This article is
to be published in a book on Mainstreaming Human Rights in Multilateral
Institutions. February 2004.
"The
World Trade Organization," 3D - Trade
- Human Rights - Equitable Economy, prepared for the training manual
of the Human Rights and Peoples' Diplomacy Training Programme. February
2004.
“Practical
Guide to the WTO” 3D - Trade
- Human Rights - Equitable Economy, December 2004
"Human
Rights and Trade," United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights,
September 2003.
RBA
and Water: (4 documents)
Legal
Resources for the Right to Water, Center on Housing
Rights, 2004
Financing
of Fresh Water for All: A Rights Based Approach Ashok
Nigam and Sadig Rasheed. Staff Working Paper. UNICEF, June 1998.
Privatisation
versus Human Rights: Lessons from the Bolivian Water Revolt
Jim Shultz. Community
Law Centre. ESR Review, Vol. 4, No. 4, November 2003.
The
Right to Water World
Health Organization, February 2003.
Implementation
of RBA: (11 documents)
Applying
a Rights-Based Approach to Development: Concepts and Principles Cecilia
Ljungman and Sarah Forti, COWI, A/S, Helsinki Finland, and COWI,
Kampala, Uganda, February 2005.
Promoting
Rights-Based Approaches: Experiences and Ideas from Asia and
the Pacific Joachim
Theis, Save the Children, 2004.
Challenges
and Opportunities of Implementing a Rights-based Approach to Development:
An Oxfam America Perspective Oxfam
America, July 2001.
From
High Principles to Operational Practice: Strengthening OHCHR Capacity
to Support UN Country Teams to Integrate Human Rights in Development Programming
William O'Neill and
Vegard Bye. UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, March
2002.
Handbook in Human Rights
Assessment: State Obligations, Awareness & Empowerment
Norwegian Agency for
Development Cooperation (NORAD), February 2001.
Human Rights and Sustainable
Human Development James
Gustave Speth. United Nations Development Programme Administrator. Direct
Line 17, January 30, 1998.
A Human Rights Approach to UNICEF Programming for Children and Women:
What it is, and some changes it will bring UNICEF,
April 1998.
Operationalization
for the Eastern and Southern Africa Region of UNICEF Global Guidelines
for Human Rights Programming UNICEF
Eastern and Southern Africa Region Office (ESARO), Nairobi, August 2002.
Applying a Human Right-Based Approach to
Programming: Experiences of UNICEF Dorothy Rozga,
UNICEF, presentation paper prepared for the workshop on Human Rights,
Assets and Livelihood Security, and Sustainable Development, June
2001.
Promoting
Rights and Responsibilities CARE
Newsletters, 2000-present.
When
Needs Are Rights: An Overview of UN Efforts to Integrate Human Rights
in Humanitarian Action Karen
Kenny. Occasional Papers Series, No. 38. The Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute
for International Studies, Brown University, 2000.
Monitoring
and Evaluation (M&E): (4 documents)
"Children
Changing Their World: Understanding and Evaluating Children's Participation
in Development" Plan International, June 2004
Developing
Capacities for Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation in CARE: from outcome
assessments to requirements of a rights based approach
Frank Noij, CARE Asia, March 2003
Measurement,
Management and Accountability Intrac.
Ontrac No. 22, September 2002.
Human
Rights as an Emerging Development Paradigm, and some implications for
Programme Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Mahesh
Patel. UNICEF, May 2001 (draft).
Training
Resources: (5 documents)
Compass:
A Manual on Human Rights Education with Young People
Circle
of Rights: Economic, Social & Cultural Rights Activism: A Training
Resource International Human Rights Internship Program
and Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, 2000.
Economic
Justice: The Scramble for Wealth and Power David
Shiman. Economic and Social Justice: A Human Rights Perspective. Human
Rights Resource Center, University of Minnesota.
Human
Rights & Rights-Based Programming Training Manual
Paul O'Brien and Andrew
Jones. CARE, 2002.
Ripple in Still Water: Reflections by Activists on
Local- and National-Level Work on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
International Human Rights Internship Program, Institute of International
Education, 1997.
Workshop on the Implementation of a Rights-based
Approach to Development: Training Manual Maria Socorro
I. Diokno. Office of the United Nations Resident Coordinator in the Philippines,
March 2002. |
