What is it about?
This article clarifies the meaning of gender transformation as against gender mainstreaming and introduces a framework that identifies urban pathways not only to empower individual women but also to collectively transform fundamental gender power relations in sectors such as land titling, public safety and informal economic activities.
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Why is it important?
This is very timely first because 20 years after the 'invention' of gender mainstreaming we need a new cutting edge approach, namely gender transformation; and second, because it coincides with the introduction of UN Habitat III 's New Urban Agenda at its global conference in Quito in October 2016
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This publication reflects the culmination of the past five year's of work developing a new gender transformative framework. From my early work on Gender Planning in the 1980s and 1990s I have moved forward to identify a new, more political agenda that relates to gender needs , interests and collective action. I consider this has both academic theoretical relevance as well as being operationally useful for urban development practitioners
Prof Caroline O. N. Moser
University of Manchester
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This page is a summary of: Gender transformation in a new global urban agenda: challenges for Habitat III and beyond, Environment and Urbanization, September 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0956247816662573.
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