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Caroline Moser is a Washington D.C.-based Senior Research Associate with PPPG. She is a social anthropologist/social policy specialist who was previously Lead Specialist Social Development, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank and prior to that a Lecturer at the London School of Economics. She has published on urban poverty, household vulnerability and coping strategies under structural adjustment; human rights, social protection, gender and development, including ‘Gender Planning and Development’ and urban violence and insecurity including ‘Encounters with Violence in Latin America’.
Her current research projects are on intergenerational asset building and poverty reduction strategies, with fieldwork in Ecuador; women’s organizations in conflict and peace processes with capacity strengthening in Colombia; and gender mainstreaming audit in the Beijing plus 10 context.
c.moser@odi.org.uk
Understanding Latin American drug and alcohol abuse Cathy McIlwaine and Caroline Moser
2005
Drug and alcohol abuse is widespread among the urban poor in Latin America, and contributes to daily violence and fear. Substance abuse and the drugs trade may hinder peacemaking in Colombia and postwar reconstruction in Guatemala. Policy responses would be more effective if based on an understanding of community attitudes towards substance abuse.
Go to id21 article, December 2005
An Introduction to Gender Audit Methodology: its design and implementation in DFID Malawi Caroline Moser
2005
This paper outlines the main components of a recently developed gender audit methodology. Its purpose is to provide a background paper for those seeking to undertake gender audits, as well as to show the uses of gender audits within the broader development field of meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Change, Violence and Insecurity in Non-Conflict
Situations
2005
Conflict and war have long been accepted as significant constraints to development. In the past decade, however, violence in 'non-conflict' situations has been increasingly recognised as a core security and development priority. This issue is particularly critical in contexts of rapid social change, and often most evident in 'failing' or 'crisis' states. This working paper explores the relationship between change and violence, and seeks to identify the key cutting edge issues of rural-urban change, which are underlying causes or trigger factors of increasing violence and insecurity, or indeed consequences of the phenomenon itself.
From the complex diversity of rural-urban change issues throughout the world, four dimensions in particular are identified as crucial in terms of their impact on people's well-being, security and livelihoods across rural and urban areas:
Livelihoods, labour markets and natural resources
Social structures and relations
Political institutions
Spatial organisation
This paper examines the relationship between levels of violence and insecurity in each of these four dimensions of change, with examples from Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and the former Soviet Union. This includes inter-linkages within as well as among different dimensions of change. It should be noted that there is no a priori association between violence and change; when a link is made, this is often related to poorly managed or planned-for change, rather than change per se. This desk review is intended to highlight issues considered to be of particular relevance regarding the potential change-violence nexus and which can contribute to the current security and development agenda.
ODI working paper 245 Change, Violence and Insecurity in Non-Conflict Situations
'Urban violence and insecurity: An introductory roadmap'
2004
Environment and Urbanization 16 (2) pp 3-16
'Drugs, alcohol and community tolerance: an urban ethnography from Colombia and Guatemala'
2004
Environment and Urbanization 16 (2) pp 49-62
Encounters with Violence in Latin America: Urban poor perceptions from Colombia and Guatemala
2004
Human Rights, Assets & Livelihood Security and Sustainable Livelihoods
2002
Rights and Livelihoods Approaches
2002
ODI Natural Resource Perspectives, May 2002
Violence in the Central American Region
2002
ODI working paper 171 'Violence in the Central American Region: Towards an Integrated Framework for Violence Reduction.'
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The Local Initiatives for Peace Project - Colombia
2002
To Claim Our Rights
2001
This book explores the potential contribution of a human rights perspective to the development of policies and programmes that strengthen the sustainability of poor people's asset and livelihood security.
Gender and Social Protection in Bolivia
2001
ODI working paper 156 'Social Protection Policy and Practice in Bolivia: Its implications for Bolivia's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper'
2001
Strengthening the capacity of DFID to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women in Peru
Gender, Conflict and Building Sustainable Peace: Recent Lessons from Latin America
2001
Gender and Development, Vol 9. No 3, Nov. pp 29-39.
Insecurity and Social Protection - Has the World Bank Got it right?
2001
Journal of International Development, Vol.13, 361-68.
Violence and Social Capital in Poor Urban Communities: Perspectives from Colombia and Guatemala
2001
Journal of International Development, Vol.13, 965-84.
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Poverty and Inequality
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