The starting point for this document was the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) technical cooperation project Gender and Municipal Development (NI-T1002), which was financed by the Bank's Capacity Building Fund for Local Institutions in Central America (CABILICA) and implemented in...

This study attempts to quantify the impact of public interventions designed simultaneously to foster crime prevention and the formation of community-wide social capital. The relationship between social capital and violence has been rarely modeled in the literature and, when so, it has been found...

The present document seeks to set forth the IDB's commitment to the objectives contained in the Declaration of Guadalajara and the parallel Memorandum of Understanding, a commitment that has taken shape in Bank programs and lending, as well as in a growing number of coordination efforts and...

Como podem o banco e organizações da sociedade civil trabalharem juntos para melhorar as condições de vida dos cidadãos da região.

A apresentação trata da organização "Balcão de Direitos", um projeto montado pela ONG Movimento Viva Rio a partir de 1997 para facilitar o acesso à Justiça a comunidades de baixa renda da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Apresentação durante o Fórum Interamericano sobre Segurança e...

This is the last version available of the present document that was commissioned by the Natural Disaster Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue. The aim of this study is to strengthen local governments, institutions and communities for undertaking disaster risk management, and establishing...