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Swedish Agency for Development Evaluation Policy Brief. 2008.
Sweden’s Policy for Global Development (PGD) emphasises that the rights perspective should be integrated in all Swedish development cooperation activities. However, few guidelines exist that describe how to operationalise and implement the perspective. This SADEV evaluation (SADEV Report 2008:2) aims to increase knowledge about how to promote and integrate the rights perspective in programming. This is done by looking at one of the few examples where Sida, through the Swedish Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, has been working with a practical approach to promoting the rights perspective – the Mainstreaming In Action (MAINIAC) approach. The report argues that the capacity development of donors, partners in development, local actors and citizens is critical to integrating the rights perspective in development cooperation. The report also identifies the need for the rights perspective to be more clearly elaborated.
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This document prepared by UNICEF and UNESCO brings together the current thinking and practice on human rights based approaches in the education sector. It presents key issues and challenges in rights-based approaches and provides a framework for policy and programme development from the level of the school up to the national and international levels.
United Nations Children‘s Fund/United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2007
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The Danish Institute for Human Rights (2007)
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Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2007.
This paper is divided into five sections. The first section provides some background on the emerging consensus on the relationship between human rights and development. The second section outlines previous DAC commitments on human rights and describes recent changes to the international context and donor practices which have prompted the development of this paper. The third section sets forth aid effectiveness and state fragility as new focus areas and shows how these relate to human rights. The fourth section recommends ten principles for effective engagement on human rights, and the fifth and last section outlines three priority action areas where enhanced efforts of DAC Members and new initiatives can have a significant impact.
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Action Aid
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Jennifer Chapman. 2005.
This paper was written for the 2005 conference, Winners and Losers from Rights-based
Approaches to Development, and draws from the authors’ field experience of working
with a range of NGOs that incorporate rights into their development activities. In
particular it uses case study material from ActionAid International (AAI), an NGO that
has been undertaking a shift in its strategies and operations over the last 5 years in order
to integrate a rights-based perspective into its work. The paper explores both the benefits
and challenges that this approach can bring when focused on strengthening the voice and
power of marginalised sectors of society.
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Upala Devi Banerjee (OHCHR 2005)
An elaborate overview of case studies on experiences with the human rights-based approach in the Asia-Pacific.
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K. Hawkings: Desk Review, DFID Health Resource Centre (2005) 
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Institute For Development Policy And Management: Research, University of Manchester (2005)
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All papers from the conference available at the following link
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B. De Gaay Fortman: Second International Conference on Human Rights, Mofid University (Qom 2003)
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Susan Appleyard: OHCHR Asia Pacific (2002)
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C. Nyamu-Musembi: IDS Working Paper 169 (2002)
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C. Moser and A. Norton: Overseas Development Institute (2001)
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International Council of Human Rights Policy (1999)
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M. Mukhopadhyay: Issue Paper (undated)
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Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (2006)
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L.H. Piron and F. Watkins: Overseas Development Institute (2004)
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J. Rand: Care USA (2002)
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D. Rozga: presentation paper prepared for the Workshop on Human Rights, Assets and Livelihood Security, and Sustainable Development (London 2001)
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Joachim Theis: Save the Children (2004)
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UK Inter-Agency Group on Rights Based Approaches (London 2006)

This report discusses the evaluation of an analysis workshop on the impact of the RBA on poverty reduction by making a comparison between rights-based approaches and non-rights-based approaches to development. Three cases illustrate the report, including in-depth country reports from Bangladesh, Malawi and Peru.
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L. VeneKlasen et al: IDS Working Paper 235 (2004)
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L. VeneKlasen and V. Miller (2002)
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Mary Ann Brocklesby and Sheena Crawford (UK 2005)

This guide fills a need in current operational development practice. It gives practical advice on how to embed rights issues within policy processes and working practices, and on how to reflect systematically on the processes involved in doing so. The guide provides support to development practitioners working towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and offers, through illustrations from examples of recent practice, steps towards making rights real.
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Robert Chambers: Chambers Analysis of PRA, World Development vol.22 No. 9 (1994)
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A. Cornwall and K. Brock: Programme paper No. 10, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (2005)
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L. Mayoux (2001)
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Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (2005)
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S. Mosedale: Journal of International Development 17
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R. Offenheiser and S. Holcombe: Non-profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, vol 32 (2003)
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J.G. Seiling: PhD Dissertation, University of Tilburg/Taos Institute (2005)
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United Nations OHCHR
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United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Draft Guidelines (2004)
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The International Institute for Environment and Development has developed a “Power tools” series.  Power tools are policy tools that address power asymmetries between the marginalised and marginalisers. You will find a broad range of  very useful and diverse tools, loosely arranged in the following way: tools -  (1) for understanding; (2) for organising; (3) for engaging; and (4) for ensuring. Essentially, they refer to instruments, approaches, schemes, devices and methods for tackling the differences in power that impede policies and institutions from achieving equitable natural resource management. See also links to other key databases.
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The Childs Rights Information Network posesses an amount of documents on the rights based approach, human rights programming and human rights tools.
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