The rights-based or citizen-centered approach, tensions and contradictions in implementing the approach: reflections on the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline project.


Research Paper (undergraduate), 2012

11 Pages, Grade: none


Abstract or Introduction

This paper makes a brief introduction of the human rights movement, its evolution from the US and French revolution to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Vienna Conference, and to present day practice of the Rights-Based Approach (a citizen-centered approach). In the following pages, the paper critically explores the newly conceived approach of human rights: the rights-based or citizen-centered approach. The Human Rights-Based Approach (RBA) places or sees human rights as an integral component of all human development programming, be it at the local or international level. The paper go along to identify the practicality and added value in the application of the RBA. In particular it looks at some of the strengths (community empowerment, local ownership, inclusion, etc) of the RBA, how that makes the RBA different from other development concepts. According to the paper translating this complex approach into practice is a big challenge to development experts, agencies and international organizations involving tensions and contradictions. Using the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project as a case study the paper brings to light some of the limitations of the RBA in today’s highly politics-driven world. It reveals how some other materialistic accomplishments can be placed high above citizens’ freedom and at the expense of the environment on which they depend on for their survival.

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Title
The rights-based or citizen-centered approach, tensions and contradictions in implementing the approach: reflections on the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline project.
College
University of Sussex  (Institute of Development Studies)
Grade
none
Author
Year
2012
Pages
11
Catalog Number
V191841
ISBN (eBook)
9783656167006
ISBN (Book)
9783656167426
File size
581 KB
Language
English
Keywords
Chad-Cameroon pipeline project, rights-based approach, Elangwe Linus, human rights movement
Quote paper
Linus Elangwe (Author), 2012, The rights-based or citizen-centered approach, tensions and contradictions in implementing the approach: reflections on the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline project., Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/191841

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