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Priority Gender Issues in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine
Pozarny, P., & Rohwerder, B.; GSDRC (2016)
This paper discusses the gender issues in Eastern Europe. It argues that women's political participation is limited and therefore it analyses the progress in each country for improving the role of women. It comes to the conclusion that gender stereotyping and discrimination against women remain widespread. Also the participation in governance is still low, main reasons for this include lack of financing, traditional societal attitudes, little experience in public life roles and low interest. There are problems with implementation of the law and there is a lack of political will to advance gender equality.
Get AccessGender and the Formal and Informal Systems of Local Public Finance in Sierra Leone
ICTD (2018)
This ICTD Research in Brief is a two-page summary of ICTD Working paper 87 by Vanessa van den Boogaard. This series is aimed at policy makers, tax administrators, fellow researchers and anyone else who is big on interest and short on time. In recent years, activists and policy-oriented researchers have begun to explore how tax policy and administration reform may serve to reinforce or address gender inequities. The majority of research in this area has focused on taxation in high-income countries; it is thus unsurprising that policy-oriented work has tended to think about tax and gender through a narrow, Westernised lens, which predominately focuses on formal taxes, administration, and institutions.
Get AccessGender Equal Cities
Urbact Knowledge Hub (2019)
This Urbact report shows how creating space for women's voices, needs and capacities is a necessary step towards building thriving citieses. The report themes mirror city departments and sectors, providing practical guides for professionals who work both in specific ploicy-areas and across sectors. It is relevant for citizens and citizen organisations too, to help them them inspire and support their local administrations.
Get AccessNepal's Divisive New Constitution: An Existential Crisis
International Crisis Group (2016)
In 2015, Nepal adopted a new constitution amid deadly protests that continued for months. Protesting groups argued that the statute backtracked on addressing structural discrimination. If implementation begins before contentious issues are addressed, the mainstream parties risk wholesale rejection of the constitution by a large section of the population. Conducting local elections also carries grave risks of violence, boycotts, intimidation and, in some areas, rejection of the state and its political system.
The Global Refugee Crisis: The Key Role of Cities
Eva Dick and Benjamin Schraven; DIE (2016)
More than 80 % of refugees worldwide are located in developing countries and emerging economies and many people are displaced within their own nations. While Syria and its neighbouring countries are affected the most, displacement is also a significant issue in Colombia, Nigeria and Sudan. Contrary to popular belief, it is cities rather than refugee camps that receive most of these displaced persons.
Get AccessFragile States
GSDRC (2016)
This guide gives an overview of the main literature in the field of fragile states. It recommends articles and books e.g. which regard state-society relations and citizenship in situations of conflict and fragility. It bundles concepts of civic trust, citizenship and socio-political cohesion.
Get AccessThe Promotion of Decentralisation and Local Governance in Fragile Contexts
German Development Institute, Grävingholt, Jörn / Christian von Haldenwang (2016)
The paper provides an overview of the challenges regarding support to decentralisation and local governance in fragile contexts. It discusses risks and opportunities, and develops suggestions on how to rise to the challenges surrounding the promotion of decentralisation in fragile states.
Get AccessSocial Cohesion and Intercultural and Inter-Religious Dialogue: The Role of Local Authorities in Public Policies for the Social Inclusion of Migrants
UCLG Peer Learning (2016)
This publication highlights the content and exchanges of the first peer learning meeting in the “Mediterranean City-to-City Migration” project (MC2CM) on the role of municipal administrations in social cohesion and intercultural and inter-religious dialogue, that was hosted by the city of Lisbon in July 2016. It comes comes within the framework of the Mediterranean City-to-City Migration project, which sets out to help improve the governance of migrations at the local level within a network of cities in Europe and in the southern Mediterranean.
Get AccessSocial Cohesion and Integration: A Presentation of Methods for Violence Prevention and Conflict Transformation in Development Cooperation as a Possible Contribution to the Integration of Refugees
GIZ (2016)
With a growing portfolio in the field of forced migration and displacement, there is an increasing need for GIZ projects to exchange about methods and tools for the integration and reintegration of refugees and IDPs in host communities. Therefore, the GIZ´s NICD (Network International Cooperation in Conflicts and Disasters) Working Group on Violence Prevention, developed this brochure in order to demonstrate how approaches and methods for violence prevention could be beneficial for the development of socially inclusive communities coping with an influx of refugees.
DownloadMunicipalities and People on the Move: Cities' Development Policies for Successful Local Management of Migration and Development
UNDP (2017)
This Guidance Note draws on UNDP's long-standing experience with local development processes, as well as with migration and displacement-related programming. It aims to enable UNDP country offices to support cities to adopt adequate public policy interventions to increase the positive and decrease the negative impacts of human mobility. The Guidance Note complements existing UNDP guidance documents by offering a set of policies, programmes and institutional arrangements that enable municipal and other local governments to vigorously address migration phenomena in a tailored manner and to mainstream migration and displacement into municipal activities and development plans.
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