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

Cislaghi, Ben,

Human rights and community-led development : lessons from Tostan / Ben Cislaghi. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). - Studies in global justice and human rights .

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I Some Useful Concepts to Rethink Development Practices; Chapter 2 Rethinking Development Interventions: Potential and Challenges of Human Rights Education; Chapter 3 Modernisation at Work: Senegal, Tostan and the Fulɓe; Part II The Programme in Action; Chapter 4 Galle Toubaaco before the Programme; Chapter 5 Human Rights Education in Action: The Programme Unfolds; Chapter 6 The 'Now-Women' and Other Changes: A Wider Horizon of Possibilities?; Part III Helpful Development Chapter 7 Dynamics of Social Change: A Model for Indirect Development PractitionersChapter 8 Conclusion; Notes; References; Index

This title 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.



9781474445139 9781474419802


Tostan (Organization : Senegal)


Human rights.
Community development.


Electronic Books.

K3240 / .H863 2018