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Publications | Activities
Publications
Human Rights and Aid Effectiveness
The relationship between human rights and the Paris Declaration is receiving increasing attention in development research, policy and practice. This paper provides an overview of recent initiatives that have been undertaken through the DAC with the support from the GOVNET and its Human Rights Task Team.
Human Rights and Aid Effectiveness: Key Actions to Improve Inter-Linkages
The implementation of the Paris Declaration for increased aid effectiveness can help to achieve human rights. Equally, the application of human rights to development processes can strengthen the implementation of the Paris Declaration and help to attain its goals.This information sheet outlines key actions that will support this synergistic process.
Each of the following information sheets further outlines one of six key messages:
Aid Effectiveness and Human Rights: Strengthening the Implementation of the Paris Declaration
This study by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) is based on a project commissioned by the GOVNET’s Task Team on Human Rights. A Framework Paper and five Illustration Papers analyse the specific contributions that human rights thinking and practice can make towards a better understanding of the Paris Declaration’s key principles (ownership, alignment, harmonisation, managing for results, mutual accountability) and their implementation.
Linking Human Rights and Aid Effectiveness for Better Development Results: Practical Experience from the Health Sector
This report deals with the inter-linkages between aid affectiveness, human rights and improved results in the health sector. In this context, it assesses the functional contribution of human rights as a means of strengthening the implementation of the Paris Declaration and the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs). Furthermore, the report identifies and analyses examples of the application of human rights standards and principles to the health sector. It reviews how these approaches contribute to strengthened health systems through supporting the Paris Declaration principles of ownership, mutual accountability, managing for results, harmonisation and alignment. Even though the focus of the analysis in on the health sector, the concluding recommendations can also be relevant and applicable to other sectors.
Activities
Workshop - Development Effectiveness in Practice: Applying the Paris Declaration to Advancing Gender Equality, Environmental Sustainability and Human Rights
On 26-27 April 2007, 120 participants representing bilateral and multilateral donors, partner countries and civil society organisations from the North and South gathered in Dublin to discuss the relationship between human rights, gender equality and environmental sustainability as overarching, universal objectives of development and the ambitious agenda of reforms aimed at improving the effectiveness of the international aid system that is embodied in the Paris Declaration. The DAC GOVNET’s Human Rights Task Team, GENDERNET, ENVIRONET and the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness had jointly taken the initiative in response to increasing attention that this relationship is attracting in development research, policy and practice.
Workshop - Integrating Human Rights into Development
Over 60 participants from bilateral and multilateral donor agencies and the OECD met on 19 October 2005 in Paris for a workshop organised by the Human Rights Task Team around two key contributions: the findings and recommendations of the GOVNET-commissioned report “Integrating Human Rights into Development: A Synthesis of Donor Approaches and Experiences” and a presentation on how a nationally-owned human rights-based approach has been integrated in Kenya across an entire country programme. Presentations and discussions made a strong case for the relevance of human rights to the quality and sustainability of development.
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