2. Urban Poverty in the 21st Century: A Gender Perspective Rachel Masika and Nicola Chanamuto
3. Urban Development and Urban Poverty Reduction Approaches: Gender Implications and Development Outcomes Rita Afsar
4. Untapped or Unusable Resource: Issues with Female Workforce in Urban India Mahalaya Chatterjee
5. Women’s Rights to Adequate Housing, Land, and Property in Urban India Shivani Chaudhry
6. Women’s Entitlement to Housing Security in Urban India Darshini Mahadevia
7. Embedding Gender Resource Gap Differential in Planning to Address Issues of Access, Ownership, Safety, and Equality for the Urban Poor Shivani Bhardwaj, Rajashree Ghosh, and Sunita Kotnala
8. Gender and Inclusion: Lessons from the Basic Services for the Urban Poor Sub-Mission of the JNNURM Diana Mitlin, Gayatri Menon, and Sundar Burra
9. Reaching Basic Services to the Urban Poor with a Gender Lens: Experiences of the Self-Employed Women’s Association Mirai Chatterjee
10. Malaysian Women in the Workforce and Poverty Eradication: Economic Growth with Equity Shanthi Thambiah
11. The Feminization of Poverty: Lessons from the American Experience Diana M. Pearce
12. Gender, Urban Poverty, and Social Protection: Lessons from Latin America Maxine Molyneux, Nicola Jones, and Maria Stavropoulou
13. Services for Whom? A Gendered Approach to Community Upgrading Giovana Beltrão
14. The Gendered Dimensions of Urban Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa Jacinta Muteshi-Strachan and Musabi Muteshi
15. Safety Matters: A Report of Women’s Safety Audits Conducted in Urban Slums in Madhya Pradesh Asmita Basu
16. Sexual Violence: Interface Between the Public and the Private Flavia Agnes and Audrey D’Mello
About the Contributors
Economic growth and gender equality are positively correlated. Although gender issues have been widely debated in the context of urbanization and urban poverty alleviation policy framework, it has yet to be addressed perceptibly. Encapsulating insightful policy recommendations exclusively on urban poverty and gender issues is necessary for successful implementation of existing programmes, alongside keeping tabs on emerging issues. This edition of the State of the Urban Poor Report focuses on gender and urban poverty. It has been envisaged keeping in mind the critical need to examine gender issues relevant to urban poverty alleviation practices and mechanisms, as well as to find ways of bringing gender sensitivity into the urban management practices in India. The report presents the key findings of leading international urban poverty and gender policy experts from various countries such as the UK, the US, Australia, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, and Kenya. In addition, leading practitioners and policymakers from India have shared their experiences in India and elsewhere. The volume discusses themes such as dimensions of urban poverty; current urban poverty alleviation approaches; gender, shelter, and property rights; urban livelihoods; ensuring urban safety through gender-sensitive approach; and access to basic urban services through gender perspective.