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dc.contributor.authorTranchant, Jean-Pierre
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-18T10:27:21Z
dc.date.available2013-12-18T10:27:21Z
dc.date.issued2013-12
dc.identifier.citationTranchant, J-P. (2013) 'Making the Urban Poor Safer: Lessons from Nairobi and Maharashtra', IDS Policy Briefing 47, Brighton: IDSen_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/3273
dc.description.abstractMumbai and Nairobi have acutely unequal urban development, with respectively 40 per cent and 60 per cent of their urban population living in slums. The most impoverished neighbourhoods are characterised by severe lack of service provision and poor access to employment opportunities. Urban violence is deeply rooted in the multiple vulnerabilities experienced by slum-dwellers, such as lack of steady income, lack of access to amenities and lack of connection to state resources. Yet security provision fails to address violence in this broader social and economic context, while efforts at tackling urban vulnerability often do not address its links with violence and physical insecurity. Issues of under-policing, unemployment or lack of services that shape urban violence are ultimately intertwined with the difficulty faced by slum-dwellers to interact with state authorities. Formal and informal policies need to take these local realities into account while building on local experience of what works best to reduce vulnerability and minimise violence.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipDFIDen_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherInstitute of Development Studies (ID)en_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Brief;47
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/en_GB
dc.subjectPovertyen_GB
dc.subjectSecurity and Conflicten_GB
dc.titleMaking the Urban Poor Safer: Lessons from Nairobi and Maharashtraen_GB
dc.typeIDS Policy Briefingen_GB
dc.rights.holderInstitute of Development Studies (IDS) and the Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF)en_GB
dc.identifier.agOT/11009/2/2/3/355
dc.identifier.teamVulnerability and Poverty Reductionen_GB


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