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Protecting Rights through Humanitarian Action
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Growing the Sheltering Tree
Training and Toolkits
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The Practicalities of Rights-Based Development,

Australian Council for Overseas Aid (ACFOA), June 2001.

This training series includes three sessions and is focused on defining and 'operationalizing' a rights-based approach to development. The training includes discussions of state sovereignty and human rights and approaches to evaluation and provides a useful Human Rights Checklist for Project Design and Implementation.

Session I: What does a rights-based approach to development mean?

Session II: From rhetoric to reality: how to make it work

Session III: A rights-based approach in program design and development

  1. Declaration on the Right to Development
  2. Foundation of Human Rights Protection
  3. Nature of Human Rights
  4. Major International Human Rights Treaties
  5. National Government Obligations
  6. Obligations of the International Community
  7. Convergence of Human Rights and Development
  8. Links between Human Rights and Development
  9. Human Rights Approach to Development
  10. Macro Level
  11. Micro level
  12. Summary
  13. What a Human Rights Approach is NotX
  14. Implications for NGOs

    Contact person: Sue Harris, ACFOA Human Rights Officer, sharris@acfoa.asn.au

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