Insights into Policies and Practices on the Right to Development

As the world continues to grapple with a range of practical development challenges that are directly linked to livelihood concerns about human well-being and declining living standards, often overlooked is the human right to development, which remains largely unfulfilled. In the face of successive global initiatives seeking to remedy these challenges, it has become urgent to ask what the universal recognition of the right to development implies if it cannot be translated into improved well-being for impoverished peoples around the world.
The contributors in this timely volume argue that setbacks to development are deeply rooted in the failure to implement the right to development, which by nature guarantees equality of opportunities and equitable redistribution of the resources that contribute to better living standards. Assessing policy and practical measures (or the lack thereof), they offer practical suggestions for implementation that will make the right to development a reality for everyone.

Carol Chi Ngang is a Researcher at the Free State Centre for Human Rights, University of the Free State, South Africa.
Serges Djoyou Kamga is a Professor of Law at the Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs, University of South Africa.

Foreword
Acronyms and Abbreviations
1. Introduction - Policy and Practical Dimensions of the Right to Development, Carol Chi Ngang and Serges Djoyou Kamga
Part I: Relating to Implementing the Right to Development at National Level
2. Human Rights and Development in Ethiopia: Taking the Constitutional Right to Development Seriously, Yonas Tesfa Sisay
3. Polemics in Advancing the Right to Development Amidst a Complex Macro-Policy Framework: A South African Case Study, Mofihli Teleki
4. Implementing the Right to Development in Kenya Through Public Participation, Anthony Wambugu Munene
5. Making the Right to Development a Reality in Nigeria: Policies, Priorities and Challenges, Eric Ojo
Part II: Relating to Specific Vulnerable Groups
6. Right to Development for Indigenous Peoples in Africa: A Quest for the Adoption of Resource Control Mechanisms for Effective Protection, Abiodun Jacob Osutongun
7. Access to Justice as a Right to Development Paradigm for Indigenous Peoples in Cameroon, Esther Effundem Njieassam
8. Right to Development and Food Security in Africa: Why Women's Access to Information is Crucial, Aaron Olaniyi Salau
9. Comparative Appraisal of Women's Right to Cultural Development in Selected African Countries, Olayinka Adeniyi And Pearl Atuhaire
Part III: Relating to Particular Aspects of Development
10. Developing Narrative on the Right to Development in Africa, Robert K Home
11. Contemporary International Law and the Realisation of the Right to Development, Serges Djoyou Kamga
12. Complexity in Balancing the Pursuit of FDI with the Obligation to Achieve the Right to Development in Africa: A Focus on China-Africa Relations, Carol Chi Ngang
13. Development as Freedom: An Analysis of the Freedoms in the Implementation of the Right to Water in Zimbabwe, Paidamwoyo Mukumbiri
Part IV: Relating to the Sustainable Development Goals
14. Gender Justice and Sustainable Development in Africa: Developing Appropriate Responses to SDG, Rita Nkiruka Ozoemena
15. Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Africa: A Key to Realising the Right to Sustainable Development, Ebenezer Durojaye
16. Right to Development Critique of the Sustainable Development Goals, Yuri Ramkissoon
About the Contributors
Bibliography
Index