“From Welfare to Accompaniment: A Paradigm Shift in Cáritas’ Approach to Human Rights” – Review and Index

Review

Moving from Welfare to accompaniment is not simply a change of words, but a change of paradigm that resonates deeply in the heart of Cáritas and its work. It assumes a horizontal, egalitarian view that is directed toward our brothers and sisters with respect and understanding.

In this new approach, we observe their lives with a merciful and hopeful gaze, aware that each individual is a unique being, endowed with capacities and potentials. We stop focusing exclusively on their material needs and, instead, focus on their capabilities, their dreams and their aspirations. It is a change that leads us to listen to their voices, to know their stories and to value their contributions to society. Accompanying them in all their struggles and achievements becomes a celebration of human dignity and resilience.

Index

• Presentation
• Introduction
• 1. The person: from subject of needs to subject of rights
  • 1.1. The person, as the center of the Social Doctrine of the Church and the Social Action Model of Cáritas
  • 1.2. The person subject of needs / the person subject of rights
  • 1.3. The diversity of approaches in accompaniment: examples in our action
• 2. Relationships between guarantors, responsible parties and subjects of
  rights in the face of human rights violations
  • 2.1. Agents involved in the violation of rights
  • 2.2. Frameworks
  • 23. Advancing the rights perspective
    • 2.3.1. New look at the people to whom the actions are directed. allocation of roles: holders of rights, holders of obligations and holders of responsibilities and their relationships.
• 3. Spiral processes: assist, accompany, care, defend and include
  • 3.1. The accompaniment process as a spiral process
• 4. In the emergency, towards the structural
  • 4.1. What characterizes the emergency
  • 4.2. What place do rights have in an emergency (stop moving forward or move at a slower speed, but never go back)
  • 4.3. Keys to an emergency intervention with a human rights perspective
  • 4.5. Conclusions
• 5. Community proposal: the five steps
  • 5.1. Step 1: with a human rights perspective
  • 5.2. Step 2: discover human rights violations on a daily basis
  • 5.3. Step 3: count-verify human rights violations
  • 5.4. Step 4: change the reality of human rights violations
  • 5.5. Step 5: path in permanent execution and change
• 6. Caritas and human rights
  • 6.1. Human rights at the universal level
  • 6.2. Human rights, an integral part of the principles and values ​​of the Social Doctrine of the Church
  • 6.3. The social action of the Church and human rights