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    EU and the Asia Pacific: Measuring the effectiveness of disaster risk reduction programming in relation to child protection. (2014)

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    http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9914
    http://dx.doi.org/10.26021/4566
    
    Thesis Discipline
    European Studies
    Degree Name
    Doctor of Philosophy
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    University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe
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    • Arts: Theses and Dissertations [1761]
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    Authors
    Thornley, Genevieve Helen Clare
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    Abstract

    This thesis employs a rights-based approach to evaluate the effectiveness of European Union (EU) external action policy formation and subsequent measures to protect children in a disaster risk context, in the Asia Pacific. Advances in human rights discourse and humanitarian responsibilities have led to a review of the concept of protection, and how it is applied in humanitarian and development assistance. Indeed, a rights-based approach to donorship centres on the obligations of duty bearers to uphold the rights of those at risk when carrying out humanitarian and development assistance, while ensuring implementation practices are accountable and transparent, to maximise donorship effectiveness.

    The fundamental components of upholding human rights, and reducing vulnerability, are intrinsic to the model of human security. Human security therefore assists in the analysis of protectionism through the embedded methodology of lexis-praxis where humanitarian and development policy formation, or lexis, and subsequent implementation channels, or praxis, contribute towards the measurement of the effectiveness of donor partnerships to implement disaster risk reduction programming (DRR), as a foreign policy objective.

    The EU is an excellent case study for the analysis of cohesion in policy implementation and an evaluation of the potential need for the harmonisation of lexis in policy formation. Harmonisation of policy lexis and policy formation will lead to coherence in praxis, or the implementation measures of the EU and Member States to enact policy obligations. To explore this notion further, this research employs a rights-based approach to analyse EU and Member State policy and practice, in the goal of upholding child rights, and reducing child risks, as part of donorship responsibilities. In addition, partner roles, responsibilities, and actions in the Asia Pacific, add another layer of analysis to review DRR policy and practice both regionally and in-country.

    Keywords
    European Union; Asia Pacific; Donorship; Disaster Risk Reduction; Human Rights; Human Security; Child Protection
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    Copyright Genevieve Helen Clare Taylor
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