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Unter dem Motto „Sicher leben in Stadt und Land“ findet am 16. und 17. April 2012 im Internationalen Congress Centrum München unter der Schirmherrschaft des bayerischen Ministerpräsidenten Horst Seehofer und des Münchner Oberbürgermeisters Christian Ude der 17. Deutsche Präventionstag statt.Vorträge
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Building Safer and Inclusive Cities: The Experience of Delhi
Abstract:
The theoretical and practical work on safer cities for women has now a history of over two decades beginning in the countries of the North but today being implemented in over 45 countries around the world. This work needs to be understood within discourses of growing urbanisation and urban governance as well as discourses of crime prevention and ending violence against women. This makes the issues, as well as solutions and interventions, diverse.
Among the cities in the south, New Delhi has traversed an interesting trajectory on the path to creating safety for women and girls. The history of strong feminist and democratic movements in the country ensured that the issue was raised from civil society and a strong women’s rights group. But the deeper understanding of the depth of social change needed led to the involvement and integration of a range of stakeholders, both state and non state.
The strategies have thus included strong awareness campaigns along with concerted capacity building of institutional stakeholders including police and service providers and strengthening capacity of community women and youth to identify, address and advocate for meaningful change in their contexts.
The local government has also responded both to intense media glare and increasing rates of crime which threaten the reputation of the city. This led them to launch a community led initiative to address crimes and violence against women through a multi strategic and multi stakeholder approach. In this presentation, I will reflect upon and analyse the effects and outcomes of the campaigns and range of initiatives.
Vita:Among the cities in the south, New Delhi has traversed an interesting trajectory on the path to creating safety for women and girls. The history of strong feminist and democratic movements in the country ensured that the issue was raised from civil society and a strong women’s rights group. But the deeper understanding of the depth of social change needed led to the involvement and integration of a range of stakeholders, both state and non state.
The strategies have thus included strong awareness campaigns along with concerted capacity building of institutional stakeholders including police and service providers and strengthening capacity of community women and youth to identify, address and advocate for meaningful change in their contexts.
The local government has also responded both to intense media glare and increasing rates of crime which threaten the reputation of the city. This led them to launch a community led initiative to address crimes and violence against women through a multi strategic and multi stakeholder approach. In this presentation, I will reflect upon and analyse the effects and outcomes of the campaigns and range of initiatives.
Dr. Kalpana Viswanath, has been working on issues of women’s rights since early 1990’s. She is currently Project Director of the Gender Inclusive Cities Programme managed by Women in Cities International and funded by the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women. She has been working with the Government of Delhi in its efforts to address women’s safety in the city through projects on urban design and planning, community based interventions, improved policing, improved public transport among other interventions. She is a member of the Steering Committee of Awaz Uthao (a pilot project to create women’s safety collectives in communities in Delhi). She is also a member of Jagori, a women’s resource centre in Delhi which has led the Safe Delhi campaign. She has done research on urban safety in South Asia for UN Habitat/ESCAP, presented on issues of women’s safety and inclusion in cities in forums around the world and has delivered training on women’s safety audits. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Women’s Studies department in Emory University, Atlanta in 2004-2005. She is a member of the International Advisory Committee of Women in Cities International. She has published in several journals, magazines and newspapers.
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