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Aid and Development Effectiveness Our work in this area focuses on the integration of human rights into development policies and practices. In particular we focus on:
We have contributed to analysing and developing the rights-based policies of a number of development agencies and we regularly contribute to training and other initiatives on rights-based approaches to development. |
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International Workshop on Human Rights and State Fragility – A New Paradigm in Development Assistance The purpose of this workshop held on 21st April 2008, hosted by MFA and co-organised with ODI is to stimulate debate among academics and development practitioners about the linkages between human rights and state building from the general perspective of international engagement in situations of state fragility. The outputs are a concept note for the workshop and a workshop report. |
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DFID Human Rights Practice Review This project follows up from an earlier review of DIFD human rights policies, and is to review a selection of DFID’s human rights practice, at country level, with a view to documenting good practice and lessons to be learnt on what human rights adds to development. The four country case studies are Peru, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Malawi. In addition to reporting on these, the outputs are a series of brief programme studies which will focus on specific human rights projects and programmes, from a variety of countries and a synthesis report summarising the lessons learned. Resources |
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This is a desk based study to scope DFID’s current policy on specific human rights in the UN Human Rights Conventions. The output is a report which describes and analyses DFID’s current policy on human rights as it relates to the UK’s external relations. This work is supported by DFID. Resources |
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Human Rights and Aid Effectiveness This is an exploratory project aimed at analysing the existing synergies between the aid effectiveness, human rights and good governance agendas, with particular reference to the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. The overall purpose is to contribute to the development of a human rights perspective on aid effectiveness with the objective of progressively contributing to (i) effective implementation of the Paris Declaration, and (ii) the continuing evolution of aid effectiveness thinking and (iii) contributing to an Action-Oriented Policy Paper on Human Rights and Development, to be developed by DAC GOVNET in 2005/06. This project is a collaboration between RiA and CAPE and is funded by the OECD DAC Network on Governance (GOVNET) Resources |
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Support to SDC's Governance Division ODI provides support to the Human Rights and Access to Justice Desk Officer within SDC's Governance Division on a call-down basis. Assistance is mainly concentrated on activities to support the updating and operationalisation of updated human rights access to justice policies. To date, this has included support to the development of a new Human Rights Policy and the preparation of an Access to Justice Issues Paper. Future activities are envisaged to include: • human rights training to assist with the operationalisation the human rights policy; The project is funded by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation |
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Donor Experiences with Integrating Human Rights into their Development Assistance This study was commissioned by the Governance Network's Human Rights and Development Task Team to contribute to the process of developing an action-oriented policy statement on human rights and development. The study analyses and synthesises the approaches and experiences of bilateral and multilateral agencies working on human right and development. It examines the range of approaches that donors had adopted in integrating human rights in terms of both policy statements and practice and discusses some of the preliminary lessons about the added value of human rights for development. It concludes by making recommendations about possible areas of engagement for GOVNET to support the further strategic integration of human rights into development. The study will be published as part of the OECD series: The Development Dimension. It is funded by OECD DAC Network on Governance (GOVNET) Resources |
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Support to Norwegian People's Aid on Rights-based Approaches This project provided support to Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) to assist them in thinking about the implications of their adoption of a rights-based approach for both their future strategy and programming. This entailed a synthesis of findings from other international non-governmental organisations who have adopted a rights-based approach and a review of NPA's strategy and programmes. Two training seminars on rights-based approaches were also conducted with NPA staff. The project is funded by Norwegian People's Aid |
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DFID Human Rights Review Study commissioned by the Reaching the Very Poorest Team in DFID. The report reviewed how DFID has integrated human rights into its work at policy, regional/country and project levels, drawing out lessons learned and suggesting recommendations for DFID. |
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Right to Development: Study on Development Partnerships Study commissioned by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on development partnerships with a view to informing the debate on the Right to Development. Paper issued as official UN Human Rights Sub-Commission document. The study developed an analytical framework that drew out the emerging convergences in key areas necessary to understand development partnerships from two perspectives: (i) human rights-based approaches and (ii) aid effectiveness. The study was funded by United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Resources |
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Evaluation of SDC Human rights and Rule of Law Policy A team of ODI research fellows under took an evaluation of SDC's human rights and rule of law policy guidance documents. The main focus of the evaluation was to assess the influence of these documents on SDC and its partners, in terms of awareness-raising, policy and programmatic impact. Research comprised a light questionnaire, interviews, focus group discussions, a document review, an episode study and field research in Pakistan, Peru, Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina. The evaluation found that the guidance documents were relevant at the time, but not sufficiently operational. They had been designed in a cost-effective and participative way, but their effectiveness in terms of human rights awareness, policy coherence, and increased programming was limited. The evaluation recommended that SDSC could adopt a different approach to preparing policy statements and guidance documents. It also needed to update its policy on human rights and the rule of law. The evaluation was funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation |
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