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Can human rights make aid agencies more accountable?

31 January 2005 13:00-14:15 (GMT+00) - Public event, London

Distribution of food and cash Lesotho (Source: Rachel Slater and Rebecca Holmes, ODI)
  • This session considered the compatibility between rights-based approaches and the current aid consensus on development partnerships and national ownership. Are rights-based approaches genuinely different from past aid policies and practice? Do they create a new form of partnership? Can they avoid resort to blunt political conditionalities? Can they make donors more accountable? What is the impact of the UK's international human rights obligations and the Human Rights Act on the Department for International Development?

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    Speakers:
    Peter Uvin, Henry J. Leir Associate Professor of International Humanitarian Studies at the Fletcher School at Tufts University
    Owen Davies, QC, Joint Head of Chambers, Two Garden Court Chambers
    Chair:
    Sheelagh Stewart, Head of Profession (Governance and Conflict), Policy Division, DFID

     

  • An ODI public event in the Human Rights and Poverty Reduction - Realities, Controversies and Strategies series.

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