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  • Research in Action
    VIOLENCE Poverty SOCIAL INEQUALITY Gender CONFLICTS GENDER ANALYSIS URBAN PLANNING URBANIZATION

    Women, mobility, and public space in Guwahati

    While it is the largest city in India’s northeastern state of Assam, Guwahati’s sprawling development pattern and limited transportation options seriously constrain women’s mobility.
    Published date
    Thursday, November 17, 2016 - 11:00
  • Research in Action
    VIOLENCE Poverty SOCIAL INEQUALITY Gender CONFLICTS GENDER ANALYSIS URBAN PLANNING URBANIZATION

    Designing safe and inclusive streets in India

    Safe streets play a crucial role in enabling livelihoods, mobility, and access to services. In fast-growing Indian cities such as Ahmedabad, streets are also the site of conflict. With incomes and vehicle ownership on the rise, traffic has replaced people as the central point of street design. Vehicle-focused street design is limiting space for vendors, children, the elderly, and the disabled, while instances of violence against women are partly linked to land use and street design.
    Published date
    Thursday, November 17, 2016 - 10:30
  • Research in Action
    VIOLENCE DISPLACED PERSONS Poverty SOCIAL CONFLICTS India India India South Asia Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Sri Lanka URBAN AREAS

    Displacement and resettlement: Lessons from Colombo

    What happens when entire communities are uprooted by conflict or development? And how can planners shape the transition so that residents hold on to their livelihoods, social ties, and sense of security?
    Published date
    Thursday, November 17, 2016 - 10:00
  • Research in Action
    VIOLENCE Poverty LOW INCOME GROUPS GENDER ANALYSIS URBAN YOUTH WOMEN

    Understanding the links between gender, vulnerability, and violence in urban Pakistan

    This report by the Institute for Business Administration Karachi is the culmination of three years of research on gender roles and how they contribute to violence in 12 working class neighborhoods in two of Pakistan’s largest cities: Karachi and Rawalpindi-Islamabad. It highlights the role of frustrated gendered expectations in driving various types of violence, and how these dynamics can be tackled.
    Published date
    Thursday, November 17, 2016 - 09:00
  • Research in Action
    VIOLENCE DISPLACED PERSONS Poverty SOCIAL CONFLICTS India India India South Asia Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Sri Lanka URBAN AREAS

    Displaced by development: How the state can hinder or help

    Recent decades have seen dramatic changes in the southern Indian city of Kochi, where a series of mega developments has reshaped the city and its suburbs – and displaced many residents. In their 2015 paper “Changing Cities and Changing Lives: Development Induced Displacement in Kochi, Kerala”, researchers with the Centre for Development Studies and Union Christian College examine the lives of those uprooted by development. Through surveys and interviews, they found that while poverty, inequality, violence, and physical insecurity did not emerge as major concerns, various forms of state violence — from negligence and inefficiency to brute force —caused a great deal of unnecessary suffering for the displaced.
    Published date
    Wednesday, November 16, 2016 - 08:00
  • Journal articles
    DEVELOPMENT AID DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY CULTURAL CHANGE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE

    How open data and international development need to learn from one another

    For the international development community, open data is most often viewed as a tool to target aid money more effectively, track progress, and promote transparency.

    Published date
    Thursday, July 2, 2015 - 04:00