Mainstreaming women's safety in cities into gender-based policy and programmes
Author(s)
Moser, CarolineEditor(s)
Sweetman, CarolinePublication date
2012-11-07Keywords
Development methodsGender mainstreaming
Gender-based violence
Safety
Cities
Gender-based programmes
Gender and Development Journal
GaD
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Gender & DevelopmentDocument type
Journal articleLanguage
EnglishDescription
The importance of women’s safety and security in cities throughout the world is now widely recognised. An extensive range of state and civil society institutions currently implement a range of cutting-edge ‘good practice’ policies, programmes, and projects to address this issue. This article raises two pertinent questions that inform the (re)conceptualisation of such programmes. First, is women’s safety a separate ‘women’s issue’, or is it one that needs to be mainstreamed into broader safer cities research, policy, and practice? Second, do urban safety issues affect all women equally, or are contexts of exclusion and poverty, as well as characteristics of identity and agency, also important determining factors? The article proposes that the incorporation of the gender mainstreaming component of gender analysis into a violence roadmap provides a useful tool to ensure that the critical interests and needs of poor urban women are incorporated into gender-based programmes. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the <a href="http://www.genderanddevelopment.org">Gender and Development</a> website.Pages
18ISSN
1355-2074EISSN
1364-9221ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/13552074.2012.731742