Human Rights and South-South Development Cooperation: Reflections on the “Rising Powers” as International Development Actors

ABSTRACTThe subjects of Management (Bachelor of Business Administration) and Promotion (Bachelor of Advertising and Public Relations) perform charity market promotional campaign organized by the students of nursery and primary public school in Castellón (Spain). The objetives and competences defined in the project were successfully achieved, improving teamwork, communication, critical capacity and social awareness of the university. The cooperative methodology significantly increased motivation to effectively manage the transmission of knowledge from classroon to society.RESUMENLas asignaturas dirección comercial (licenciatura de administración y dirección de empresas) y promoción comercial (licenciatura de publicidad y relaciones públicas) realizan la campaña promocional del mercadillo solidario organizado por los alumnos de infantil y primaria de un colegio público en la localidad de Castellón (España). los objetivos y competencias definidas en este proyecto fueron alcanzados de forma satisfactoria, mejorando el trabajo en grupo, la comunicación, la capacidad critica y la concienciación social de los universitarios. la metodología cooperativa incrementó notablemente la motivación al aconseguir gestionar de manera eficaz la transmisión del conocimiento de las aulas a la sociedad.

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A human rights-based approach: A gate to development of African women's land rights?

Regions & Cohesion ◽

10.3167/reco.2012.020105 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 99-123 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Karin Tengnäs

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

International Development ◽

Rule Of Law ◽

Large Scale ◽

Good Governance ◽

Development Cooperation ◽

The Rule Of Law ◽

Land Acquisitions ◽

Large Scale Land ◽

Human Rights Based Approach

The global competition for African land is at a historical peak. Local effects of large-scale land acquisitions depend on multiple factors, but women's rights and livelihoods are generally very fragile due to historical and contemporary injustices. Good land governance is important for turning the land acquisitions into equal and equitable development opportunities. The human rights-based approach promotes good governance by adding strength and legal substance to the principles of participation and inclusion, openness and transparency, accountability and the rule of law, and equality and nondiscrimination. By empowering rights-holders and enhancing duty-bearers' capacity, international development cooperation can lead to wider and more gender-balanced inclusion of civil society in negotiations of large-scale land acquisitions and greater adherence of duty-bearers to the rule of law. This is especially important in African countries with large amounts of land and weak legal and institutional frameworks to protect rights, especially those of women.

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LGBT Rights and Inclusion in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

10.19088/k4d.2021.067 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Iffat Idris

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

International Development ◽

Grey Literature ◽

Development Cooperation ◽

Small Island ◽

Small Island Developing States ◽

Lgbt Rights ◽

Lgbt Issues ◽

Lgbt People ◽

The Right

This review looks at the extent to which LGBT rights are provided for under law in a range of Small Island Developing States (SIDS), and the record on implementation/enforcement, as well as approaches to promote LGBT rights and inclusion. SIDS covered are those in the Caribbean, Pacific, and Atlantic-Indian Ocean-South China Sea (AIS) regions. The review draws on a mixture of grey literature (largely from international development agencies/NGOs), academic literature, and media reports. While the information on the legal situation of LGBT people in SIDS was readily available, there was far less evidence on approaches/programmes to promote LGBT rights/inclusion in these countries. However, the review did find a number of reports with recommendations for international development cooperation generally on LGBT issues. Denial of LGBT rights and discrimination against LGBT people is found to varying extents in all parts of the world. It is important that LGBT people have protection in law, in particular the right to have same-sex sexual relations; protection from discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation; and the right to gender identity/expression. Such rights are also provided for under international human rights conventions such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, while the Sustainable Development Goals are based on the principle of ‘leave no one behind'.

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Donor Support for the Human Rights of LGBT+

10.19088/k4d.2021.100 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Laura Bolton

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

International Development ◽

World Bank ◽

Global Scale ◽

Development Cooperation ◽

Rapid Review ◽

Lgbt Rights ◽

Donor Support ◽

Lgbt People ◽

The Impact

This rapid review synthesises evidence on the bilateral and multilateral donors promoting and protecting the human rights of LGBT+ people on a global scale. It focusses on those donors that have policies, implementation plans and programmes on LGBT+ rights. This review also examines the evidence on the impact of their work. The bilateral donors providing the most support for LGBT+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, +) communities in 2017-18 are the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), UK Department for International Development (DFID), The Netherlands Development Cooperation, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), and the European Commission (EC). Whilst the multilateral donors providing the most support for LGBT+ are the UN and World Bank. The United Nations (UN) is doing a huge amount of work on LGBT+ rights across the organisation which there was not scope to fully explore in this report. The UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (UNOCHR) in particular is doing a lot on this theme. They publish legal obligation information, call attention to rights abuses through general assembly resolutions. The dialogue with governments, monitor violations and support human rights treaties bodies. The work of the World Bank in this area focuses on inclusion rather than rights. A small number of projects were identified which receive funding from bilateral and multilateral donors. These were AMSHeR, International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA), and Stonewall. This rapid review focused on identifying donor support for LGBT+ rights, therefore, searches were limited to general databases and donor websites, utilising non-academic and donor literature. Much of the information comes directly from websites and these are footnoted throughout the report. Little was identified in the way of impact evaluation within the scope of this report. The majority of projects found through searches were non-governmental and so not the focus of this report.

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La cooperación internacional al desarrollo en el sistema universal de los derechos humanos: los derechos humanos como marco para la comprensión de la cooperación internacional al desarrollo / International Development Cooperation in the Universal Human Rights System: Human Rights as a Framework for Understanding of International Cooperation Development

Revista Internacional de Ciencias Sociales ◽

10.37467/gka-revsocial.v5.370 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 55-65

Author(s):

Gloria Esteban de la Rosa ◽

Cherif Ba Sow

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

International Development ◽

International Cooperation ◽

Development Cooperation ◽

International Convention ◽

Cultural Rights ◽

Spanish Constitution ◽

Derechos Humanos ◽

El Sistema ◽

Free Development

ABSTRACTThe aim of the International Cooperation Development is to improve the living conditions of people in developing countries so that they can meet the basic needs of the human family (United Nations Millennium Declaration of 2000). However, the international cooperation that the great texts refers to, which include human rights, is not identified with this other modality, which agrees "to the development". By contrast, the notion of cooperation founded in its basis has not enabled the aim that the genuine international cooperation between peoples and nations must fulfil, which is clearly indicated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as well as the Spanish Constitution of 1978: the full realization of the social, economic and cultural rights, essential for the free development of the personality (as an active dimension of the human dignity). And, therefore, its purpose is defended as a (additional) guarantee for the satisfaction of basic human needs.RESUMENEl objetivo de la Cooperación internacional al desarrollo consiste en mejorar las condiciones de vida de las personas en los Países en vías de desarrollo, para que puedan satisfacerse las necesidades básicas de la familia humana (Declaración del milenio de 2000 de Naciones Unidas). Sin embargo, lcooperación internacional al desarrollo, desarrollo, necesidades humanas básicas, derechos humanos,derechos sociales, económicos y culturalesa cooperación internacional a la que se refieren los grandes textos que recogen los derechos humanos no se identifica con esta otra modalidad, que se adjetiva “al desarrollo”. Por el contrario, la noción de cooperación que se encuentra en su base no ha permitido el objetivo que ha de cumplir la auténtica cooperación internacional entre los pueblos y las naciones, que indican de forma clara la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos, el Pacto de Derechos económicos sociales y culturales así como la Constitución Española de 1978: la plena efectividad de los derechos sociales, económicos y culturales, indispensables para el libre desarrollo de la personalidad (como dimensión activa de la dignidad humana). Y, por ello, se defiende su función como garantía (complementaria) para la satisfacción de las necesidades humanas básicas.

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Development cooperation in water and sanitation: is it based on the human rights framework?

Ciência & Saúde Coletiva ◽

10.1590/1413-81232017227.04872017 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 22 (7) ◽

pp. 2247-2256 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Colin Brown ◽

Léo Heller

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Human Rights ◽

International Development ◽

Development Cooperation ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Coordinated Development ◽

Water And Sanitation ◽

2030 Agenda ◽

International Development Cooperation ◽

The Way

Abstract The water and sanitation sector is verifiably receiving increased attention and funding through international development cooperation. Not least because of the way that it affects incentives and institutions in partner countries, development cooperation can have either positive or negative effects on human rights though. The consolidated frameworks for the human rights to water and sanitation is becoming linked to the international community’s coordinated development efforts, as evidenced notably in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, a review of major funders’ official policies for development cooperation in the sector suggests that many only partially endorse the frameworks for the human rights to water and sanitation. An observation of development cooperation flows to the sector allows the hypothesis to be advanced that worldwide inequalities in access to these services may be reduced through a full and clear application of the human rights framework in development cooperation activities. The article presents findings of this research and explores key stakes for development cooperation in the water and sanitation sector that are relevant for their ability to either negatively or positively contribute to the realization of human rights.

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Keeping Up with the Fashion: Human Rights and Global Public Goods

International Journal on Minority and Group Rights ◽

10.1163/157181109x400544 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 165-179

Author(s):

Malcolm Langford

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Public Goods ◽

International Development ◽

Development Cooperation ◽

Public Provision ◽

Global Public Goods ◽

The Public ◽

Goods Movement ◽

Development Discourses ◽

Global Strategies

AbstractThe strategic genius of some recent development discourses lies in their appropriation or reappropriation of hegemonic ideas and practices. However, the choice of a conservative framework for progressive goals may mean that the compromise may be more than symbolic. The global public goods movement seeks to resuscitate earlier economic ideas about the economic utility of the public provision of certain goods but in this case at a supranational level. The book Towards New Global Strategies: Public Goods and Human Rights attempts to engage with the idea from a human rights perspective. While there are some notable contributions, much of the book founders on a failure to understand the different, and sometimes confused, strands of the global public goods thinking and properly engage with them from a human rights perspective. This article tries to tease out what appears to be the two diffent schools of thought of global public goods and the human rights questions that should be posed to them. Given the dominance of the economics discourse and the enduring nationalism in much international development cooperation, instrumental arguments for the utility of human rights and development should be cautiously welcomed but also carefully critiqued.

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International Development Cooperation in the Fields of Water and Sanitation: A Comparative Study of the United States and the Spanish Approaches in Latin America and the Caribbean

Journal of International Cooperation and Development ◽

10.36941/jicd-2020-0014 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 37

Author(s):

Sergio Colina Martín

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Human Rights ◽

Latin America ◽

International Development ◽

The United States ◽

Development Cooperation ◽

Water And Sanitation ◽

2030 Agenda ◽

The Caribbean ◽

International Development Cooperation

In the last decade, the access to drinking water and sanitation have been acknowledged as human rights by the international community; they have also been recognized as a crucial goal for achieving sustainable development for all, in the framework of the 2030 Agenda. The need for international cooperation in those fields has gained new attention, and several multilateral actors and development agencies (including USAID and AECID) have consolidated or amplified their support to the WASH sector in developing countries. A comparative analysis of the different ways in which the United States and the Spanish cooperation conceive, design and implement their development programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean can contribute to a better understanding on the strategies to effectively protect and promote those human rights and to achieve SDG 6.

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Does the Promise Hold? A Review of the Effects of Human Rights-Based Approaches on International Development Programs

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1916265 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Uwe Gneiting

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

International Development ◽

Development Programs

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The Role of Donor Agencies in Promoting Standardized Project Management in the Spanish Development Non-Government Organizations

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13031490 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 1490

Author(s):

Agustín Moya-Colorado ◽

Nina León-Bolaños ◽

José L. Yagüe-Blanco

Keyword(s):

Project Management ◽

International Development ◽

Management Practice ◽

Development Cooperation ◽

Management Tools ◽

Governmental Organization ◽

Governmental Organizations ◽

Non Governmental Organizations ◽

Funding Mechanisms ◽

Donor Agencies

Project management is an autonomous discipline that is applied to a huge diversity of activity sectors and that has evolved enormously over the last decades. International Development Cooperation has incorporated some of this discipline’s tools into its professional practice, but many gaps remain. This article analyzes donor agencies’ project management approaches in their funding mechanisms for projects implemented by non-governmental organizations. As case study, we look at the Spanish decentralized donor agencies (Spanish autonomous communities). The analysis uses the PM2 project management methodology of the European Commission, as comparison framework, to assess and systematize the documentation, requirements, and project management tools that non-governmental organizations need to use and fulfill as a condition to access these donors’ project funding mechanisms. The analysis shows coincidence across donors in the priority given to project management areas linked to the iron triangle (scope, cost, and time) while other areas are mainly left unattended. The analysis also identifies industry-specific elements of interest (such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals) that need to be incorporated into project management practice in this field. The use of PM2 as benchmark provides a clear vision of the project management areas that donors could address to better support their non-governmental organization-implemented projects.

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