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Human rights as a new development paradigm: A think piece on implications for monitoring and evaluation
Submitted: 09 August 2017 | Published: 23 May 2018
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Mahesh Patel, African Evaluation Association, Chautauqua Institution, United StatesAbstract
International Human Rights Instruments, such as the Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child require regular reporting on progress to independent monitoring bodies in Geneva. Currently, there is low awareness, and low participation, of evaluators in these reporting processes.
This article flags some of the conceptual and operational differences between the human rights approach and a ‘development goals’ approach. In each area of difference, it identifies some of the subjects of analysis that will require evaluators to develop new methods, new allies and even new conceptual frameworks to operate in this new paradigm.
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