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Integrating Human Rights into Development

Donor Approaches, Experiences and Challenges

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This book enhances understanding and consensus on why and how we need to work more strategically and coherently on the integration of human rights and development. It reviews the approaches of different donor agencies and their rationales for working on human rights, and identifies the current practice in this field. It illustrates how aid agencies are working on human rights issues at the programming level, and it draws together lessons that form the core of the current evidence around the added value of human rights for development. Lastly, it addresses both new opportunities and conceptual and practical challenges to human rights within the evolving development partnerships between donors and partner countries, as well as in relation to the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness as a new reference point of the international aid system. By giving numerous examples of practical approaches, this publication shows that there are various ways for donor agencies to take human rights more systematically into account – in accordance with their respective mandates, modes of engagement and comparative advantage.

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Experiences from the Adoption of Tools

Integrating human rights into development more systematically is an extensive undertaking, calling for innovation and change at various levels. Yet experience suggests that the difference a stronger human rights perspective makes in development and aid practice is often far from self-explanatory.

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