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Gender in Local Governments: A Handbook for Trainers

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March 26, 2013

Gender in Local Governments: A Handbook for Trainers

This Sourcebook aims at providing local governments with the tools to better understand the importance of gender in the decision-making process and to reach better solutions for the communities they serve. For this publication the following key issues of local governance have been selected:

participation in local government, land rights, urban planning, service provision, local government financing, violence against women and local economic development 

 

Author
Prabha Khosla
Publisher
UN-HABITAT
Publication year
2008

This Sourcebook aims at providing local governments with the tools to better understand the importance of gender in the decision-making process and to reach better solutions for the communities they serve. For this publication the following key issues of local governance have been selected:

participation in local government, land rights, urban planning, service provision, local government financing, violence against women and local economic development 

 

Author
Prabha Khosla
Publisher
UN-HABITAT
Publication year
2008

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