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These guidelines from a
UNFPA program and publication in the past, still resonate for human
rights, respect, dignity, gender, and development.
CUTULTURALLY
SENSITIVE DEVELOPMENT - GENDER
"In
our development efforts in poor communities, we need to be able to work with
people at their own level and to find common ground. We may not believe in what
they do, we may not agree with them, but we need to have the compassion and the
commitment to understand them and to support them as they translate universal
principles into their own codes, messages and ways of doing things. Human
rights is our frame of reference. And we use a culturally sensitive approaches
to promote human rights in ways that people can identify with and can
internalize in the context of their own lives."
—Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Former UNFPA Executive Director
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