This paper highlights the socio-cultural and legislative factors exacerbating and silencing sexual exploitation in and around West African schools.
This literature review focuses on issues of power, participation and empowerment.
A report on citizenship, social accountability and voice and the relationships between them.
This report looks at a selection of DFID country offices’ work on human rights, to attempt to glean lessons about how far, and with what success, they use the international human rights framework (IHRF) in their work.
This project, commissioned by the UNDP is to provide an overview of recent literature highlighting Citizenship, Social Accountability and Voice and the relationships between them. The report will also consider the policy and programme relevance of these concepts for UNDP and lessons learnt from donor initiatives in these areas. Finally, the report will make recommendations to UNDP of their potential contribution in this area.
The political history of property rights underlines the challenge in international development that, while a wide variety of possible routes exist to improving economic growth outcomes, all depend on constructing the political legitimacy in developing countries without which property rights are never secure.
Girl in front of destroyed homes in Ngaoundaye, Central African Republic
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This workshop was intended to analyse the linkages and tensions between a state-building agenda and a human rights agenda.
The international research project ForLive, analysing experiences in the Amazon, revealed that considerable external resources are needed to overcome the technical, legal and financial barriers inherent in the current community forestry framework.
When Douglas Alexander talked at the Foreign Policy Centre last week, he described climate change as an issue of ‘global social justice’. This has triggered me to pull together some thoughts on ‘global social justice’, to ask how the concept relates to other values espoused by ministers and by the international community, and to think about the implications for policy and programming. Take these as jottings. I’d very much welcome contributions and useful references.