Gender Planning and Development: Theory, Practice and Training

Exploring the relationship between gender and development, this looks at gender policy and planning practices based on creating gender awareness and negotiation for women's needs at household, civil society, state and global levels.

Moser, Caroline

Reference

Routledge

Latin America is both the world's most urbanized fastest developing regions, where the links between social exclusion, inequality and violence are clearly visible. The banal, ubiquitous nature of drug crime, robbery, gang and intra-family violence destabilizes countries' economies and harms their people and social structures.Encounters with Violence & Crime in Latin America explores the meaning of violence and insecurity in nine towns and cities in Columbia and Guatemala to create a framework of how and why daily violence takes place at the community level. It uses pioneering new methods of participatory urban appraisal to ask local people about their own perceptions of violence as mediated by family, gender, ethnicity and age. It develops a typology which distinguishes between the political, social, and economic violence that afflicts communities, and which assesses the costs of consequences of violence in terms of community cohesion and social capital. This gives voice to those whose daily lives and dominated by widespread aggression, and provides important new insights for researchers and policy-makers.

Encounters with Violence in Latin America: Urban Poor Perceptions from Colombia and Guatemala

Politics & Social Sciences

McIlwaine, Cathy

Social Sciences

Latin America is both the world's most urbanized fastest developing regions, where the links between social exclusion, inequality and violence are clearly visible. The banal, ubiquitous nature of drug crime, robbery, gang and intra-family violence destabilizes countries' economies and harms their people and social structures. Encounters with Violence &amp; Crime in Latin America explores the meaning of violence and insecurity in nine towns and cities in Columbia and Guatemala to create a framework of how and why daily violence takes place at the community level. It uses pioneering new methods of participatory urban appraisal to ask local people about their own perceptions of violence as mediated by family, gender, ethnicity and age. It develops a typology which distinguishes between the political, social, and economic violence that afflicts communities, and which assesses the costs of consequences of violence in terms of community cohesion and social capital. This gives voice to those whose daily lives and dominated by widespread aggression, and provides important new insights for researchers and policy-makers.

Housing and infrastructural services play a central role in the lives of Third World women and yet such women are invariably overlooked by those responsible for planning human settlements. The authors examine why this has occurred.

Women, Human Settlements and Housing

Routledge& Kegan Paul

Published under the auspices of the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements & the World Bank. On cover: Urban management policy paper. - On title page: Urban management & poverty reduction

Household Responses to Poverty & Vulnerability: Confronting Crisis in Angyalfold, Budapest, Hungary (Urban Management Programme Policy Paper) (v. 2)

McIlwaine, Cath

Politics & Government

World Bank

Looking decades ahead into the future, many informed observers see China moving steadily to the top of the world's economic league. Several sources, including the OECD, forecast that the country will be the world's largest economy by 2020. China's urban economy has been the driving force behind the country's recent trends of accelerated growth. By the same token, deterioration in the urban centers could constrain future growth. The Dynamics of Urban Growth in Three Chinese Cities looks at the interplay between geography, size, and industrial structure that determines the industrial vigor of cities. Their conclusions, abundantly illustrated through the experience of the Chinese cities of Shanghai, Tianjin, and Guangzhou, is that each of these factors must be made to work for the city through effective policymaking. The authors compare these cities with each other in the context of the changes sweeping China's economy, review their history and their reform programs from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s, and examine their infrastructure and human capital. The volume includes maps of the cities and their outlying areas and of China's road and rail system, as well as figures depicting the industrial structure of each city. Published for the World Bank by Oxford University Press.

La Pobreza Urbana y la Violencia en Jamaica (Spanish Edition)

Business & Money

Holland, Jerem

Economics

Despite sustained improvements in its social and economic indicators over the past several decades and its rich stock of natural and human resources, Colombia remains plagued by violence. The very high level of violence reflects a variety of factors, including the country's simmering 50-year-old civil war, the increase in armed conflict, the rise in urban and rural crime, and drug cartel-linked violence.As the government struggles to reach peace agreements with guerilla and paramilitary groups, political violence and armed conflict have been the primary focuses of political analysts and civil society groups alike. The perceptions of violence by people living in poor communities have received much less attention. This report addresses the issue by providing the results of a participatory study of violence conducted in low-income urban communities in Colombia.

Urban Poor Perceptions of Violence and Exclusion in Colombia (Conflict Prevention and Post-Conflict Reconstruction)

World Bank Publications

In 1996, the Government of Guatemala and the guerrilla army known as the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG), signed the final Peace Accords ending both the United Nations monitored peace process and 36 years of internal conflict. This civil war caused untold internal and external displacement in the region as well as the deaths of over 150,000 people, the majority of whom were from indigenous groups. The legacy of this conflict which includes increasing urban violence, social exclusion, and weak levels of social capital, presents challenges for the country's post-conflict peace-building agenda.Violence in a Post-Conflict Context addresses the perceptions of violence by the people living in poor communities in Guatemala. It provides the results of a participatory study of violence conducted in urban low-income communities. The book identifies the categories of violence affecting poor communities, the costs of different types of violence, the effects of violence on social capital, the interventions employed by people to deal with the violence, and the causes and effects of social exclusion.Violence in a Post-Conflict Context incorporates the rarely heard voices of the poor by using the participatory appraisal methodology which emphasizes local knowledge and enables locals to make their own analysis of the problems that they face and identify their own solutions.

Violence in a Post-Conflict Context: Urban Poor Perceptions from Guatemala (Conflict Prevention and Post-Conflict Reconstruction)

Gender planning is not an end in itself but a means by which women, through a process of empowerment, can emancipate themselves. Ultimately, its success depends on the capacity of women's organizations to confront subordination and create successful alliances which will provide constructive support in negotiating women's needs at the level of household, civil society, the state and the global system.Gender Planning and Development provides an introduction to an issue of primary importance and constant debate. It will be essential reading for academics, practitioners, undergraduates and trainees in anthropology, development studies, women's studies and social policy.

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Gender Planning and Development: Theory, Practice and Training

Encounters with Violence in Latin America: Urban Poor Perceptions from Colombia and Guatemala

Encounters with Violence in Latin America: Urban Poor Perceptions from Colombia and Guatemala

Women, Human Settlements and Housing

Household Responses to Poverty & Vulnerability: Confronting Crisis in Angyalfold, Budapest, Hungary (Urban Management Programme Policy Paper) (v. 2)

La Pobreza Urbana y la Violencia en Jamaica (Spanish Edition)

Urban Poor Perceptions of Violence and Exclusion in Colombia (Conflict Prevention and Post-Conflict Reconstruction)

Violence in a Post-Conflict Context: Urban Poor Perceptions from Guatemala (Conflict Prevention and Post-Conflict Reconstruction)

Gender Planning and Development: Theory, Practice and Training

Gender Planning and Development: Theory, Practice and Training