Urban Resource Centre, URC

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• Background
• The Urban Resource Centre (URC) is a
  non-governmental organization working with the
  urban poor communities in Phnom Penh.
• URC was set up in April 1997, under a ACHR
  initiative.
• The main goal of URC is to improve the living
  condition of poor people in Phnom Penh by
  participating in and promoting community-driven
  and people-centred development process.
• The URC currently has 25 staff, including 7
  women.

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Main URC Programmes

• Technical Assistance
• Small scale environment projects
• Land Sharing Project
• Environmental awareness and information Campaign
• Research and Documentation
• Survey, Monitoring and Documentation on urban
  development and poverty reduction issues
• ( including secure tenure in poor communities
  project).

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• Advocacy
• Participation in forums and publications about
  urban development and poverty reduction issues.
• Young Professional Programme
• Training of Young graduate and students on urban
  poverty and community development issues
• Cyclo Centre
• - Services (health, saving, education and
  information) and vocational training for Cyclo
  Drivers

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• Work mainly in research and documentation
  programme.
• Do documentation in some technical and advocacy
  programmes.
• Assist in some workshops and training programmes.
• Will address gender perspective in above
  programmes.

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Gender Perspectives

• Documentation Projects
• Showing the statistics of women and the children
  in the documents.
• Survey and interviewing for community information
  or families is mostly from women, as they stay at
  home and have time to participate community
  meetings or processes of community development.

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• The communities have highlighted that widows
  families face more problems than other families.
• In the documentation we also mention about the
  common and priority problems of the communities
  which women have said affected them more.

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• Women make up a substantial part of each poor
  community ( over 55 of the population at the 4
  land sharing sites communities are female).
• Women also bear the brunt of living in poor
  physical conditions, often being confined to that
  environment while looking after children and
  trying to seek an income for the household.
• Women play significant roles in community
  participation in upgrading projects.

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• A gender analysis of participation in the
  community committees and in the leadership which
  will be involved in the Land-sharing site
  projects design and implementation process is
  shown below
• Community Community Committees
  Community Leader
• Total People Female Male
  Female Male
• Dey Krahorm 35(7communities) 17
  18 2 5
• Borey Keilar 49(10 communities) 23
  26 4 6
• Railway A 5 (1 community)
  4 1 1 -
• Railway B 12(1 community) 6
  6 1 -

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• Gender Training
• Participation in Gender Training at Kampong Speau
  Province, that was sponsored and organized by
  Oxfam-GB.
• Providing training to URC 14 staff (7 females and
  7 males) with facilitation from Oxfam-GB about
  the Gender Gap Audit(GGA) was devised by
  Oxfam-GB. (URC staff of 25 includes 7 women)
• 6 communities were selected to do gender survey
  and analysis.

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• It is a baseline survey designed to assess the
  gender situation within a community by gathering
  qualitative and quantitative socio-economic data.
  There are four main topics social care, the
  political situation, culture and socialization,
  and economic issues.

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Gender Needs

• Capacity building for females to give the women
  the same opportunities as men.
• Capacity building to males to make them change
  themselves to give more opportunities to females.
• To create special support to females to develop
  their capacities.
• Females have special needs for training in order
  to have the opportunities and capacities to
  participate in some skills.

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• Housing, food, water, toilets. are urgent needs
  with gender perspectives.
• Domestic violence education needed especially in
  poor communities. This affects mostly women.

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Indication of Level of Gender needs

• Household Level
• - Domestic violence
• - Decision- making for big investments or for
  solving big problems.
• - Decision-making in doing important events or
  engaging in community processes

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• Community Level
• - Decision- making in community
• development process by females.
• - Ensuring female participation in all
• community processes

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• Organization level
• - Capacity of staff is still limited to measure
  effective gender participation (URC OA process
  report).
• - Gender now addressed in several URCs projects
  but often not understood that gender perspective
  is more than counting number of males and
  females.
• - For community workshops women staff more
  active in organization and participation.

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Issues and Concerns of Gender in URCs Projects

• Need for and overall organizational gender
  strategy.
• Need a clear approach to gender perspectives in
  each project.
• Many gender issues and concerns are specific to
  individual households not to all women or all
  communities ( food security, domestic violence,
  childcare/housework, family health)

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Thanks