Rights-based approaches to development : exploring the potential and pitfalls / edited by Sam Hickey and Diana Mitlin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Linking rights and development : some critical challenges / Robert Archer -- The rights of the rich versus the rights of the poor / John Gledhill -- Exploring a political approach to rights-based development in North West Cameroon : from rights and marginality to citizenship and justice / Jeidoh Duni, Robert Fon, Sam hickey, and Nuhu Salihu -- Recognition or misrecognition? Pitfalls of indigenous peoples' free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) / Katsuhiko Masaki -- Property rights and rights-based sustainable livelihoods / Leonith Hinojosa-Valencia -- Reinterpreting the rights-based approach : a grassroots perspective on rights and development / Sheela Patel and Diana Mitlin -- Rethinking agency, rights, and natural resource management / Frances Cleaver -- "We are also human" : identity and power in gender relations / Michael Drinkwater -- Rights-based development : the challenge of change and power for development NGOs / Jennifer Chapman in collaboration with Valerie Miller, Adriano Campolina Soares, and John Samuel -- The "human rights-based approach to programming" : a contradiction in terms? / Lauchlan T. Munro -- The potential and pitfalls of rights-based approaches to development / Sam Hickey and Diana Mitlin.