Development and Human Rights Course: 29 Nov 2004 - 3 Dec 2004
The Development and Human Rights Course focuses on the following issues:
Definitions of development, including the rhetorics of development, classic versus radical definitions, Western and African definitions, and the World Bank and IMF models of development, as well as the rights-based,village-based and other models of development; the role players, the duty bearers, beneficiaries and bystanders in the development process; the impact and value of international programmes such as Structural Adjustment Programmes and Poverty Reductions Programmes; women in development, gender mainstreaming in development; international trade in the development process.
Level: professional , post-graduate graduate
Participants: middle and senior level governmental and
intergovernmental officials, managers of NGO's, academics and
post-graduate students
Tuition fee: R3000 (accommodation excluded)
Human Rights Approach to Development