Access To Justice For The Urban Poor

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789290920441

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Access to Justice for the Urban Poor by Asian Development Bank Pdf

This publication suggests solutions that can be built into the design of urban development projects undertaken by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to address the common problems and grievances of the urban poor, and to improve urban governance overall. It also identifies successful or promising community-based approaches to dispute resolution that can be useful in urban project design. It uses ADB's Governance policy as a framework for analyzing key findings of Access to Justice for the Urban Poor, a regional technical assistance grant to four developing member countries in Asia and the Pacific---Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand. The findings consist of case studies illustrating typical problems encountered by the poor in connection with access to urban assets and services, and identifies the types of grievances or disputes that may arise because of these issues. The publication reproduces key case studies to illustrate significant concepts.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789290920434

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Access to Justice for the Urban Poor by Asian Development Bank Pdf

This publication suggests solutions that can be built into the design of urban development projects undertaken by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to address the common problems and grievances of the urban poor, and to improve urban governance overall. It also identifies succesful or promising community-based approaches to dispute resolution that can be useful in urban project design. It uses ADB's Governance Policy as a framework for analyzing key findings of Access to Justice for the Urban Poor, a regional technical assistance grant to four developing member countries in Asia and the Pacific- Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Hilippines, and Thailand. The findings consist of case studies illustrating typical problems encountered by the poor in connection with access to urban assets and services, and identifies the types of grievances or disputes that may arise because of these issues. The publication reproduces key case studies to illustrate significant concepts.

Author : Ayesha Kadwani Dias,Gita Honwana Welch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : 0198077211

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Justice for the Poor by Ayesha Kadwani Dias,Gita Honwana Welch Pdf

One of the most significant contemporary lessons from development work around the world is that national judicial systems-and access to them-are of critical importance in the struggle against poverty. Contending that legal strategies play an important role in protection of human rights, this book discusses important global issues related to human rights including human justice and security. It examines institutional strategies that aim at accelerating human justice delivery, and securing civil, political, socio-economic, and cultural rights. The work also puts in perspective a number of practical recommendations for justice programming and development. Establishing the essential link between poverty reduction and justice programming, it clarifies conceptual issues related to justice from the perspective of the weak and marginalized. The essays in the volume address crucial issues such as practical and effective strategies for securing access to justice for the poor and means for evaluating justice programming from a results-based perspective. Further it focuses on the interplay between poverty, good governance, and accountability instrumental in realizing the Millennium Development Goals, and ensuring participation and non-discrimination in developmental decision-making. Addressing important issues such as access to justice in plural legal systems, public interest litigation, the effects of globalization, and denial of women's rights, the book examines judicial reform initiatives.

Author : Andrew Harding
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789047420453

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Access to Environmental Justice: A Comparative Study by Andrew Harding Pdf

Although it is commonly asserted that enhanced citizen participation results in better environmental policy and improved enforcement of environmental standards, this hypothesis has rarely been subject to testing on a comparative basis. The contributors to this book set out to study the extent to which citizens can and do exert influence over their urban environments through the legal (and extra-legal) 'gateways' in eleven countries spanning several continents as well as different climates, levels and type of economic development, and national legal and constitutional systems, as well as exhibiting a different set of environmental problems. One interviewee questioned about access to environmental justice, dryly remarked that in his city there was no environment, no justice and no access to either. Yet this view, as will be seen, requires to be nuanced. While few people will be surprised by the finding that legal gateways to environmental justice are largely ineffective, the reasons for this are revealing; but also the richness of detail and the comparisons between the different countries, and also the positive aspects which surfaced in several instances, were indeed both encouraging and sometimes surprising. This book presents the first comparative survey of access to environmental justice, and will be of considerable use to lawyers, policy-makers, activists and scholars who are concerned with the environmental issues which so profoundly affect and afflict our habitat and conditions of social justice throughout the world.

Author : Michael R. Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Civil procedure
ISBN : UOM:39015052984229

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Access to Justice and Legal Process by Michael R. Anderson Pdf

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789290929406

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Gender and Urban Poverty in South Asia by Asian Development Bank Pdf

In March 2012, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) held the Subregional Workshop on Gender and Urban Poverty in South Asia to share experiences and enhance lateral learning among ADB and its project partners on addressing gender and social inclusion issues in urban development projects in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Participants included senior government officials, nongovernment organizations, community-based organizations, researchers, ADB urban and gender specialists, and representatives of international development agencies.This report presents the synthesis of knowledge, experiences, good practices, and recommendations shared at the forum with the aim of assisting ADB and its partner agencies in the planning of urban development projects to facilitate gender- and socially inclusive outcomes and reduce poverty in South Asia.

Author : Babar Mumtaz
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : City planning
ISBN : 9064330301

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Guiding cities by Babar Mumtaz Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9264309543

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Legal Needs Surveys and Access to Justice by Anonim Pdf

This report offers an empirical tool to help planners, statisticians, policy makers and advocates understand people's everyday legal problems and experience with the justice system. It sets out a framework for the conceptualisation, implementation and analysis of legal needs surveys and is informed by analysis of a wide range of national surveys conducted over the last 25 years. It provides guidance and recommendations in a modular way, allowing application into different types of surveys. It also outlines opportunities for legal needs-based indicators that strengthen our understanding of access to civil justice.

Author : Marjorie Mayo,Gerald Koessl,Matthew Scott,Imogen Slater
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447311027

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Access to Justice for Disadvantaged Communities by Marjorie Mayo,Gerald Koessl,Matthew Scott,Imogen Slater Pdf

Justice is a basic human right in all democratic doctrines, but in Britain, where welfare has faced recent market-based reforms, it’s increasingly a right available only to those who can afford it. Professionals and volunteers are struggling to provide services such as legal counselling and representation to disadvantaged communities. This book explores how strategies to safeguard these vital services can strengthen, rather than undermine, the basic ethics and principles of public service provision. The authors show how such safeguarding might improve the positions of those who administer—as well as those who need—publicly provided legal services. Though focused on Britain, their findings reverberate to the United States and all democracies undergoing similar challenges in the public sphere.

Author : S. Muralidhar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Defense (Criminal procedure)
ISBN : 8180380629

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Law, Poverty, and Legal Aid by S. Muralidhar Pdf

In the Indian context.

Author : Davoudi, Simin,Bell, Derek
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447323372

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Justice and Fairness in the City by Davoudi, Simin,Bell, Derek Pdf

With more than half the world’s population now living in urban areas, ‘fairness’ and ‘justice’ within the city are key concepts in contemporary political debate. This book examines the theory and practice of justice in and of the city through a multi-disciplinary collaboration, which draws on a wide range of expertise. By bringing diverse disciplinary and theoretical perspectives into conversation with each other to explore the (in) justices in urban environment, education, mobility and participation the book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of justice and fairness in and of the city. It will be a valuable resource for academic researchers and students across a range of disciplines including urban and environmental studies, geography, planning, education, ethics and politics.

Author : Judy L. Baker
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821389607

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Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and the Urban Poor by Judy L. Baker Pdf

The urban poor living in slums are at particularly high risk from the impacts of climate change and natural hazards. This study analyzes key issues affecting their vulnerability, with evidence from a number of cities in the developing world.

Author : Marianne Fay
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821360698

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The Urban Poor in Latin America by Marianne Fay Pdf

About half of the region's poor live in cities, and policy makers across Latin America are increasingly interested in policy advice on how to design programmes and policies to tackle poverty. This publication argues that the causes of poverty, the nature of deprivation, and the policy levers to fight poverty are, to a large extent, site specific. It therefore focuses on strategies to assist the urban poor in making the most of the opportunities offered by cities, such as larger labour markets and better services, while helping them cope with the negative aspects, such as higher housing costs, pollution, risk of crime and less social capital.

Author : Jinthana Haritaworn,Ghaida Moussa,Syrus Marcus Ware,Gabriela (Rio) Rodriguez
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487518653

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Queering Urban Justice by Jinthana Haritaworn,Ghaida Moussa,Syrus Marcus Ware,Gabriela (Rio) Rodriguez Pdf

Queering Urban Justice foregrounds visions of urban justice that are critical of racial and colonial capitalism, and asks: What would it mean to map space in ways that address very real histories of displacement and erasure? What would it mean to regard Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (QTBIPOC) as geographic subjects who model different ways of inhabiting and sharing space? The volume describes city spaces as sites where bodies are exhaustively documented while others barely register as subjects. The editors and contributors interrogate the forces that have allowed QTBIPOC to be imagined as absent from the very spaces they have long invested in. From the violent displacement of poor, disabled, racialized, and sexualized bodies from Toronto’s gay village, to the erasure of queer racialized bodies in the academy, Queering Urban Justice offers new directions to all who are interested in acting on the intersections of social, racial, economic, urban, migrant, and disability justice.

Author : Adriana Allen,Liza Griffin,Cassidy Johnson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137473547

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Environmental Justice and Urban Resilience in the Global South by Adriana Allen,Liza Griffin,Cassidy Johnson Pdf

This edited volume provides a fresh perspective on the important yet often neglected relationship between environmental justice and urban resilience. Many scholars have argued that resilient cities are more just cities. But what if the process of increasing the resilience of the city as a whole happens at the expense of the rights of certain groups? If urban resilience focuses on the degree to which cities are able to reorganise in creative ways and adapt to shocks, do pervasive inequalities in access to environmental services have an effect on this ability? This book brings together an interdisciplinary and intergeneration group of scholars to examine the contradictions and tensions that develop as they play out in cities of the Global South through a series of empirically grounded case studies spanning cities of Asia, Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe.