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Making space : women and the man-made environment

1985 - Repr.

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Guide to Critical Issues for Socio-Cultural Analysis

Partridge, William L.; Mejía, María Clara - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

This document focuses on four sectors where socio-cultural analysis is particularly critical for addressing issues of reducing poverty and exclusion. In the case of major infrastructure projects, the primary concern is to minimize or mitigate their impacts on local communities. For projects in...

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Socio-Cultural Analysis in IDB Projects: A Discussion Paper

Partridge, William L.; Mejía, María Clara - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

This paper presents the principal issues related to socio-cultural analyses carried out in conjunction with IDB operations as a tool for maximizing project benefits to poor and excluded groups and for ensuring compliance with many of the Bank's safeguard policies. A companion manual to this...

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Investing in Gender Equality: 2002-2003 Title: Invirtiendo en igualdad de género: 2002-2003

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American …; … - 2004

This third edition of Investing in Gender Equality presents IDB projects that exemplify good work in the integration of gender considerations in their design. The 18 projects included in this edition have been identified through a system that ranks projects according to how comprehensively...

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Allocation Inflexibilities , Female Labor Supply and Housing Assets Accumulation: Are Women Working to Pay the Mortagage.

Fortin, N.M. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 1992

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Risky health environments: Women sex workers’ struggles to find safe, secure and non-exploitative housing in Canada’s poorest postal code

Lazarus, L.; Chettiar, J.; Deering, K.; Nabess, R.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 73 (2011) 11, pp. 1600-1607

This study explored low-income and transitional housing environments of women sex workers and their role in shaping … of current dominant male-centred housing models. Within the physical environment, women described inhabitable housing … conditions in SROs with infestations of bedbugs and rats, leading women to even more transitional housing options such as …

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Guyana: Technical Note on Indigenous Peoples

Renshaw, Jonathan - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

The aim of this note is to provide an overview of the situation of the Indigenous Peoples of Guyana. The note covers a range of issues, including land regularisation, environment - especially mining, logging and the establishment of protected areas - economic development, education, health care...

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A Road Map for Measuring Development Impact: a Woman's and Family Perspective

Cohen, Monique - In: Review of Social Economy 55 (1997) 2, pp. 243-250

This paper discusses women's strategies during the economic reforms with a focus on housing policies. It uses the … housing issue to address the importance of identifying impacts on both women as individuals and as family members when …

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Representations of gender in annual reports in the real estate industry in Sweden

Staffansson Pauli, Karin Maria - In: Property Management 34 (2016) 1, pp. 5-17

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to clarify how annual reports of public housing and commercial real estate … constitutes gender of the industry? Design/methodology/approach – Analysis of photographs in annual reports, 14 public housing … about how “gender is done” in annual reports, men alone are shown more often as employees and both women and men are …

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Exploring the possibilities of integrating the savings of women in poor urban communities to formal finance systems to enhance housing opportunities

Kajimo‐Shakantu, Kahilu; Evans, Kathy - In: Property Management 25 (2007) 1, pp. 80-97

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to explore the possibility of integrating women‐centred savings schemes into … formal finance systems in order to help such schemes to leverage finance for housing purposes. Design … studies show that, if savings systems are flexible and suitable to their needs, women are capable of saving and repaying …

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