Human rights and community-led development : lessons from Tostan / Ben Cislaghi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cislaghi, Ben, author.

Series:

Studies in global justice and human rights.

Studies in global justice and human rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tostan (Organization : Senegal).

Human rights--Senegal--Galle Toubaaco.

Human rights.

Community development--Senegal--Galle Toubaaco.

Community development.

Human rights--Africa.

Community development--Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 287 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This book investigates work of the NGO Tostan as a working model of human development. The study is grounded in the ethnographic study of the actual change that happened in one West African village.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

pt. I Some Useful Concepts to Rethink Development Practices

2. Rethinking Development Interventions: Potential and Challenges of Human Rights Education

3. Modernisation at Work: Senegal, Tostan and the Fuloe

pt. II The Programme in Action

4. Galle Toubaaco before the Programme

5. Human Rights Education in Action: The Programme Unfolds

6. The ßıow-Women' and Other Changes: A Wider Horizon of Possibilities?

pt. III Helpful Development

7. Dynamics of Social Change: A Model for Indirect Development Practitioners

8. Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 May 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781474419819

147441981X

9781474419802

1474419801

9781474445139

1474445136

OCLC:

1054391659