The Winners and Losers from Rights-Based Approaches to Development Conference

21st - 22nd February, 2005
School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, UK

Manchester School of Environment and Development

Description

A central question to explore is: who stands to win and who stands to lose from a rights-based approach to development?

It is argued that rights-based approaches to policies such as social protection offer the poorest people the best guarantee of livelihood support. However, some argue that rights-based approaches are an inappropriate strategy for working with the poorest and most vulnerable, who may feel more secure in entering (often informal) negotiations rather than in making demands.

This event precedes a conference on Social Protection for Chronic Poverty (23rd-24th February 2005).

Speakers and schedule

Event website

Manchester’s Event page

Meeting reports

Abstracts of presented papers 

Papers

• Winners and Losers from Rights-Based Approaches to Development

• Rights-Based Development: the Challenge of Change and Power

• The Rights of the Rich Versus the Rights of the Poor

• The 'Human Rights-Based Approach to Programming': a Contradiction in Terms?

• Religion and a Rights-Based Approach to Development

Full list of abstracts and papers available here

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