The Legal Empowerment Agenda

Author : Dan Banik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351886949

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The Legal Empowerment Agenda by Dan Banik Pdf

Despite providing society with a set of crucial services, large groups of workers in the informal economy are subject to exclusion and discrimination, and their lives are characterised by various types of vulnerabilities and deprivations that result from the denial of social, economic, political and legal protection. Although not new to the development vocabulary, the informal economy has received renewed attention in recent years largely due to the ILO's 'decent work' agenda and various efforts to promote 'legal empowerment of the poor'. With an explicit focus on labour rights, the book focuses on a nuanced understanding of the regulatory and operational challenges and dilemmas related to implementing the two approaches in selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to analyzing structures and relations of power between the formal and the informal economies, the book critically discusses the work of governments, civil society organizations and the poor themselves to address the daily challenges of living in the informal economy.

Author : Dan Banik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1409411192

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The Legal Empowerment Agenda by Dan Banik Pdf

Defined as a process which increases access to justice and the legal rights of the poor, 'legal empowerment' is increasingly being considered to be an important tool in anti-poverty efforts in developing countries. This volume discusses the opportunities and constraints related to the enhancement of legal empowerment in the informal economy, with a focus on labour and business rights in Africa.

Author : Dr Dan Banik
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781409489313

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The Legal Empowerment Agenda by Dr Dan Banik Pdf

Despite providing society with a set of crucial services, large groups of workers in the informal economy are subject to exclusion and discrimination, and their lives are characterised by various types of vulnerabilities and deprivations that result from the denial of social, economic, political and legal protection. Although not new to the development vocabulary, the informal economy has received renewed attention in recent years largely due to the ILO's 'decent work' agenda and various efforts to promote 'legal empowerment of the poor'. With an explicit focus on labour rights, the book focuses on a nuanced understanding of the regulatory and operational challenges and dilemmas related to implementing the two approaches in selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to analyzing structures and relations of power between the formal and the informal economies, the book critically discusses the work of governments, civil society organizations and the poor themselves to address the daily challenges of living in the informal economy.

Author : Dan Banik
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0754674983

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Rights and Legal Empowerment in Eradicating Poverty by Dan Banik Pdf

How best to improve the position of the world's poorest people remains one of the major issues facing the human species. This book investigates the role that legal empowerment and rights (including human rights) can play in tackling poverty and enabling poor people in developing countries to take action to improve their positions.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789292546977

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Legal Empowerment for Women and Disadvantaged Groups by Asian Development Bank Pdf

Legal empowerment is a powerful tool for reducing poverty. It gives people the knowledge, skills, and confidence to participate in development projects. It promotes inclusive growth, which reduces poverty by building people's capacity to improve their lives. Inclusive growth is a goal of Strategy 2020, which guides the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in its mission to promote gender equality, empower women, and achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The publication presents the findings of a project funded by ADB, carried out by The Asia Foundation, and conducted in Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Pakistan. The project aimed to identify and test legal empowerment strategies that increase access to basic social services, productive resources, and opportunities by women and other disadvantaged groups and to incorporate legal empowerment initiatives into mainstream development projects.

Author : Shari Dworkin,Monica Gandhi,Paige Passano
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780520272880

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Women's Empowerment and Global Health by Shari Dworkin,Monica Gandhi,Paige Passano Pdf

"What is women's empowerment, and how and why does it matter for women's health? Despite the rise of a human rights-based approach to women's health and increasing awareness of the synergies between women's health and empowerment, a lack of consensus remains as to how to measure empowerment and successfully intervene in ways that improve health. Women's Empowerment and Global Health provides thirteen detailed, multidisciplinary case studies from across the globe and through the course of a woman's life to show how science and advocacy can be creatively merged to enhance the agency and status of women. Accompanying short videos provide background about programs on the ground in India, the United States, Mexico, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Women's Empowerment and Global Health explores the promises and limits of programmatic, scientific, and rights-based work in real-world settings and provides the next generation of researchers and practitioners, as well as students in global and public health, sociology, anthropology, women's studies, law, business, and medicine, with cutting edge and inspirational examples of programs that point the way toward achieving women's equality and fulfilling the right to health."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Hassane Cissé,Daniel D. Bradlow,Benedict Kingsbury
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780821388648

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The World Bank Legal Review by Hassane Cissé,Daniel D. Bradlow,Benedict Kingsbury Pdf

This book focuses on the legal challenges and opportunities for International Financial Institutions in the post-crisis world. It includes contributions from academics, practitioners and Bank staff. The contributions cover a broad array of issues, included governance reform and constitutional framework of IFIs, privileges and immunities, responsibility of international organizations, issues related to fragile and conflict-affected states, climate finance, and the recent financial crisis. The book is organized in three main areas, namely (i) Law of International Organizations: Issues Confronting IFIs; (ii) Legal Obligations and Institutions of Developing Countries: Rethinking Approaches of IFIs; and (iii) International Finance and the Challenges of Regulatory Governance.

Author : Deepa Narayan-Parker
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821351664

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Empowerment and Poverty Reduction by Deepa Narayan-Parker Pdf

This publication offers a framework for the empowerment of people living in poverty throughout the world that concentrates on increasing people's freedom of choice and action to shape their own lives. Based on analysis of practical experiences, the book identifies four key elements to support empowerment: information, inclusion and participation, improved accountability and local organisational capacity. This framework is then applied to five areas of action to improve development effectiveness: provision of basic services, improved local governance, improved national governance, pro-poor market development, and access to justice and legal aid. It also offers twenty 'tools and practices' which concentrate on a wide-range of topics to support the empowerment of the poor.

Author : Gil Loescher,James Milner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136622236

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Protracted Refugee Situations by Gil Loescher,James Milner Pdf

Protracted refugee populations not only constitute over 70% of the world's refugees but are also a principal source of many of the irregular movements of people around the world today. The long-term presence of refugee populations in much of the developing world has come to be seen by many host states in these regions as a source of insecurity. In response, host governments have enacted policies of containing refugees in isolated and insecure camps, have prevented the arrival of additional refugees and, in extreme cases, have engaged in forcible repatriation. Not surprisingly, these refugee populations are also increasingly perceived as possible sources of insecurity for Western states. Refugee camps are sometimes breeding grounds for international terrorism and rebel movements. These groups often exploit the presence of refugees to engage in activities that destabilise not only host states but also entire regions.

Author : Siri Gloppen,Roberto Gargarella,Elin Skaar
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 0714655686

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Democratization and the Judiciary by Siri Gloppen,Roberto Gargarella,Elin Skaar Pdf

Introduction : the accountability function of courts in new democracies / Siri Gloppen, Roberto Gargarella, and Elin Skaar Judicial review in developed democracies / Martin Shapiro How some reflections on the United States' experience may inform African efforts to build court systems and the rule of law / Jennifer Widner The constitutional court and control of presidential extraordinary powers in Colombia / Rodrigo Uprimny The politics of judicial review in Chile in the era of domestic transition, 1990-2002 / Javier A. Couso Legitimating transformation : political resource allocation in the South African constitutional court / Theunis Roux The accountability function of courts in Tanzania and Zambia / Siri Gloppen Renegotiating "law and order" : judicial reform and citizen responses in post-war Guatemala / Rachel Sieder Economic reform and judicial governance in Brazil : balancing independence with accountability / Carlos Santiso In search of a democratic justice what courts should not do : Argentina, 1983-2002 / Roberto Gargarella Lessons learned and the way forward / Irwin P. Stotzky.

Author : Gráinne De Búrca
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 9780192866578

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Legal Mobilization for Human Rights by Gráinne De Búrca Pdf

This book is based on the specialized courses during the 2019 AEL summer course on Human Rights Law

Author : Naresh Singh
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781496947086

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Legal Rights of the Poor by Naresh Singh Pdf

This book seeks to be relevant to the call to address inequalities, injustice, human rights, and social exclusion in a more integrated, holistic, and transformative manner. It seeks to do so by looking at what we have learned in both the development and human rights communities. Further, it addresses fundamental obstacles that neither community has dealt with in this context, such as changing power relations. The book builds on the report of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor entitled Making the Law Work for Everyone and draws from a wide range of published literature on relevant issues not covered in the report. Calls for holistic and transformative approaches are familiar in development circles, but putting these approaches into practice require a knowledge base beyond that covered in the traditional development literature. The book brings together this diverse literature in one place at a time when the international community is about to embark on a new era of development cooperation commonly referred to as the post-2015 agenda. The subjects covered therefore include a review of successful and unsuccessful approaches to reducing poverty and inequality; life in slums; the informal sector where the majority of the poor live; the legal empowerment of the poor; changing power relations between the haves and the have-nots; and the holistic, sustainable-livelihoods approach, in the development of which, the author has played a lead role.

Author : Lorenzo Cotula
Publisher : IIED
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Environmental law
ISBN : 9781843696674

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Legal Empowerment for Local Resource Control by Lorenzo Cotula Pdf

Author : Martha F. Davis,Morten Kjaerum,Amanda Lyons
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788977517

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Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty by Martha F. Davis,Morten Kjaerum,Amanda Lyons Pdf

This important Research Handbook explores the nexus between human rights, poverty and inequality as a critical lens for understanding and addressing key challenges of the coming decades, including the objectives set out in the Sustainable Development Goals. The Research Handbook starts from the premise that poverty is not solely an issue of minimum income and explores the profound ways that deprivation and distributive inequality of power and capability relate to economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights.

Author : Paul Gready,Wouter Vandenhole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136017605

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Human Rights and Development in the new Millennium by Paul Gready,Wouter Vandenhole Pdf

In recent years human rights have assumed a central position in the discourse surrounding international development, while human rights agencies have begun to more systematically address economic and social rights. This edited volume brings together distinguished scholars to explore the merging of human rights and development agendas at local, national and international levels. They examine how this merging affects organisational change, operational change and the role of relevant actors in bringing about change. With a focus on practice and policy rather than pure theory, the volume also addresses broader questions such as what human rights and development can learn from one another, and whether the connections between the two fields are increasing or declining. The book is structured in three sections: Part I looks at approaches that combine human rights and development, including chapters on drivers of change; indicators; donor; and legal empowerment of the poor. Part II focuses on organisational contexts and includes chapters on the UN at the country level; EU development cooperation; PLAN’s children’s rights-based approach; and ActionAid’s human rights-based approach. Part III examines country contexts, including chapters on the ILO in various settings; the Congo; Ethiopia; and South Africa. Human Rights and Development in the new Millennium: Towards a Theory of Change will be of strong interest to students and scholars of human rights, development studies, political science and economics.