Human Rights & Poverty
Many of the issues that ‘development’, ‘environmental’, ‘social justice’ and ‘human rights’ groups work on – these are often one and the same.
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Disability: Library Manuals
How to treat beneficiaries: If you are involved with an NGO for the disabled, read Chapter 2 of How to Build a Good Small NGO. It discusses the importance of involving and respecting beneficiaries. Interviewing & Counselling at the Grass Roots includes a section on recognizing and helping people with disabilities. A practical manual: Simple Devices to…
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Gender & Human Rights
The United Nations states: “[It is for both women & men] removing the obstacles to active participation in all spheres of public and private life through a full and equal share in economic, social, cultural and political decision-making. …Women’s equality to men must be a central component of any attempt to solve the world’s social, economic…
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Inclusion (& Exclusion): The Basics
People working in development are finding that two questions are increasingly important. These are: who is included? And, who is left out?
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Human Rights: Library Manuals
The following relevant books are available for download from this site:
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Human Rights: The Basics
What are Human Rights? Human rights are the rights a person has simply because he or she is a human being. “Human rights are held equally and inalienable by all human beings. They are social and political guarantees necessary to protect individuals from the standard threats to human dignity posed by the modern state and…
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Health Education
For an introduction to the discipline and an overview of activities at different levels of care, see our manual Principles and Practice of PHC (Section 4) See our section on Behaviour Change, and our manual Health Education for Behaviour change “Helping Health Workers Learn”, available from Hesperian Health Guides, provides hundreds of methods, aids, and learning strategies…
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Water, Sanitation & Waste disposal
For an overview of activities at different levels of care, see our manual Principles and Practice of PHC (Section 6. Look also at 5.3, Diarrhoea; 5.6, Common Local Diseases related to water; 5.8. Infections prevented by better water & sanitation). Look through WHO’s publications on water, sanitation and health WHO offer a Safe health-care waste management…
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Home Care/Palliative care
See our manual Principles and Practice of PHC (Section 7) Useful for carers is our manual Interviewing & Counselling at the Grass Roots WHPCA has resources focused on supporting the development of hospice and palliative care. Of special interest: ‘Palliative care toolkit: improving care in resource poor settings’, in various languages ‘Advocacy Toolkit’ WHO has a…
