Human Rights and Service Delivery: A Review of Current Policies, Practices, and Challenges

Marx, Axel; Mcinerney-Lankford, Siobhán; Wouters, Jan; D'Hollander, David

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“…ix Some suggest that the growing attention for a rights-based development in INGOs might have contributed to this new perspective on INGO accountability (Unerman & O'Dwyer, 2008;Marx, McInerney-Lankford, Wouters & Hollander, 2015). This focus on rights-based development, which became prominent in INGOs around the turn of the century and which is strongly connected to the more emancipatory understanding of development of the 1970s and 1980s, implied a shift in the understanding of development.…”

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What is Negotiated in Negotiated Accountability? The Case of INGOs

2016

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This paper discusses the constructivist, negotiated perspective to INGO accountability. According to this perspective, INGO accountability is a process of mutual negotiations between different INGO stakeholders who hold different accountability demands. Acknowledging that this perspective provides a good starting point for a better understanding of INGO accountability, we comment on this conceptualization of INGO accountability. Through an analysis of accountability instruments and procedures, we examine closely how the demands of the INGO's stakeholders are embedded in particular relationships of accountability which are sustained by particular accountability logics. From this analysis, we point out that, due to the differences that exist between these accountability logics, processes of negotiation are likely to be filled with complex tensions and trade-offs. Moreover, as some accountability logics are much clearer and more compelling than others, a constructivist perspective on INGO accountability does not automatically coincide with an understanding of INGO accountability in which primordial importance is given to the beneficiaries.

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What is Negotiated in Negotiated Accountability? The Case of INGOs

2016

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“…Human rights can be classified as structural or operational [1]. Within the laws of a country, structural aspects of human rights include universality, inalienability, indivisibility, interdependence, and interrelatedness.…”

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“…These are resilience, robustness, reliability, respectfulness, reflexiveness, retraceability, recognisability, and responsiveness. They are indicators of RLM that also address the structural and operational principles of human rights (See Section 3 of this chapter) [1]. The indicators of RLM are explained thus [19,20]:…”

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“…The HRBA is outlined in the United Nations Common Understanding (UNCU) [1,36]; three conditions should be satisfied. Human rights principles should inform all development initiatives, programmes should seek to improve the capacity of dutybearers to maintain their obligations, and rights-holders to exercise their rights.…”

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“…Because the rule of law is one of the guiding concepts of human rights, both the rule of law and legal pluralism are important. Both structural and operational concepts make up legal pluralism [1].…”

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