This brief resource sets out a rights-based framework forpolicy analysis that allows social
workers to enhance their long-term vision aswell as their current practice. It introduces the
emerging P.A.N.E.(Participation Accountability Non-discrimination Equity) model for
evaluatingsocial policy comparing it with the traditional needs-based charity model interms of
not only effectiveness and efficiency but also inclusion and justice. Recognizedstandards for
human rights are used to identify values crucial to informing policygoals. Exercises key
documents and an extended example illustrate both the processesof creating empowering social
policy and its best and most meaningful outcomes. Included in the coverage: Rights-based and
needs-based approaches to social policy analysis. Regional and international human rights
instruments. Grounding social policies in legal and institutional frameworks. Conceptualizing
social issues from a human rights frame. Measuring progress on the realization of human rights.
Rights-based analysis of maternity paternity and parental leaves in the United States. For
social workers and social work researchers A Rights-Based Approach to Social Policy
Analysisgives readers a modern platform for achieving the highest goals of thefield. It also
makes a worthwhile class text for social work programs.
