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| Cities, the Environment and Gender Relations |
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| Project presented by the MOST Swiss National Committee for UNESCO |
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 This project proposes to analyse grassroots groups of women in their social and environmental relations in medium sized cities in West Africa (Senegal, Burkina Faso), in Latin America (Argentina, Brazil and Cuba), in Eastern Europe (Roumania and Bulgaria) and in Switzerland.
Read the brochure describing the project
Global objectives:
-Contributing towards strategies of social transformation and citizen participation.
-Furnishing the results to the responsible deciders and technicians as well as the people generally.
-Contributing to the body of knowledge.
Special objectives:
-To include women in policy-making.
-To empower women in the structure of social relations of power.
-To strengthen urbanity in cities.
The project proposal stems from three basic premises : firstly on the macro-level, because the "developmentalist" orientation is in crisis and the models imposed on urban society are unsustainable ; secondly the state of the urban world with its social and spatial effects (pauperisation, inequalities and exclusion, population concentration in medium sized cities in southern states) ; and finally the telltale active presence of women in the informal job market and in processes of socio-spatial organization (self-management of neighbourhoods) on a domestic and familial basis.
The full findings of the first phase have been published, in French, in a book entitled Femmes dans les crises urbaines, relations de genre et envi-ronnements urbains précaires, 2001, Karthala, Paris. This book is also available in Spanish : Empoderamiento de las mujeres en las crises urbanas, Género, medio ambiente y barrios mar-ginados, 2001, IEPALA, Madrid. In addition, some of the research teams have released their findings in a variety of other forms so that they can be used by local organisations.
Project Outputs
Publications:
Femmes dans les crises urbaines
François HAINARD et Christine VERSCHUUR (Éds)
(Only available in French)
Femmes et politiques urbaines
François HAINARD et Christine VERSCHUUR
(Only available in French)
Empoderamiento de las mujeres en las crisis urbanas
François HAINARD et Christine VERSCHUUR
(Only available in Spanish)
Protests go with proposals. Article published in UNESCO Sources, May 1999
Meetings and conferences
Cities, Environment and Gender Relations - an evaluation of eight years of work on the project
24-25 November 2005
Cities, Environment and Gender Relations - Bucharest and Sofia Seminar
23-30 May 2003
Globalisation, power and gender relations
Geneva, Switwerland; 31 January 2003 - 1 February 2003
Cities, Environment and Gender Relations - Buenos Aires Seminar
21-29 September 2002
Cities, Environment and Gender Relations - Habana Meeting
12-17 November 2002
Project Coordinators:
François Hainard
Responsable de la recherche
Institut de Sociologie, Université de Neuchâtel
E-mail : francois.hainard@seco.unine.ch
Christine Verschuur
(consultante en relations de genre et développement)
Institut universitaire d'études du développement (IUED)
E-mail : christine.verschuur@iued.unige.ch
Germán Solinís
Project Co-ordinator UNESCO
E-mail : g.solinis@unesco.org
Research Teams
Burkina Faso:
Mme Kadidia Tall
03 BP 7170
Ouagadougou 03
tél : 226 -36 21 58
e-mail: kadital@fasonet.bf
Senegal:
M. Mohamadou Abdoul
mody@panos.sn
ENDA
Dialogues Politiques
B.P. 3370, Dakar
tél : 221 - 822 59 83
823 53 47 / 682 00 03
fax : 221 - 822 26 95
e-mail : diapol@enda.sn
Argentina:
M.Alvaro San Sebastian
Gral. Enrique Martinez 542
1426 Buenos Aires
tél / fax : 54 - 11 - 4553 12 37
54 - 11 - 4423 34 95
e-mail : asanse@fadu.uba.ar
Brazil:
Mme Sonia Alves Calio
rua Dr. Cicero de Alencar 96
05580 080 São Paolo SP
tél : 55 - 11 - 37 26 84 49
fax : 55 - 34 - 33 14 89 10
e-mail : socalio@altavista.net
sonia.calio@uniube.br
soniacalio@aol.com
Dominican Republic and Cuba:
Mme Isabel Rauber
adresse personnelle :
calle 15 n° 6809 entre 68 y 70
Playa, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba
tél : 537 - 203 57 29
tél (of.) : 537 - 209 51 98
e-mail : rauber@ip.etecsa.cu
Bulgaria:
Mme Iskra Dandolova
Institut de Sociologie,
Académie Bulgare des Sciences
15 rue San Stefano, 1504 Sofia
adresse postale : P.O.Box 29, Sofia 1504
tél : 359 - 2 - 43 87 55
fax : 359 - 2 - 80 37 91
e-mail : dandolo-far@uacg.acad.bg
Romania:
Mme Cosima Rughinis
Department of Sociology,
Bucharest University
Boulevard Schitu Magureanu nr. 9,
sector 5, Bucarest
tél (of) : 40 - 1 - 314 03 26
fax / tél : 40 - 1 - 315 31 22
e-mail : crughinis@yahoo.com
Image: Dakar, Senegal © G. Solinís |
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