than tearing point project is the two you compared to research project funded by a
grant from the economic social research council and the department for intention development of the
u k
it's a project which looks at than violence and four cities across the world giovanni
sat is a member of the pan a research t
you donnie practical explain first of all why partner was chosen as a case study
for the other different what project
apart from very high poverty indicators but not presented a very different keys as far
as winds levels of concern because after two thousand five the vines levels particularly violent
crime doubles jot quite steady and this and an associated with this but not routed
to the a change of political regime
and the steps that were taken by the current government to tackle crime
including you know increasing the presence of the police and the part of the pulleys
banning downlink that on which a lot of i don't sometimes organized as that is
fast track coats
so this presented a counter factual case for the open to pinpoint project where binds
to back to conflict optimal policy perspective and of it either that was quite interesting
could you tell us a little bit how you went about doing the research in
this city
so we chose for word based on the social economic indicators of two thousand one
senses and we conducted we combine qualitative and quantitative research methods so we the bench
two d slums and conducted focus group discussions in interviews but they just look with
stakeholders
and then at the in the second level we conducted a still be among all
the household in the slums
what was the most interesting finding of the research carried out in the city
okay so one of the most interesting find that came out during a focus group
discussions and interviews
was a how the current government has own liberalise a set of alcohol and this
has led to a lot of for alcohol shop so the mushroomed all over the
city
and this is basically been done by the government to generate revenue
so
while gambling with bandages pretty rampant during or the nineteen nineties under the previous government
there has been by and
and alcohol theism the paralysed you know to generate revenue
on the basis that when we went and conducted a focus group discussions a lot
of women parts of an attribute this legalise and we realization of alcohol
as directly associated with a domestic buttons
so in slums in the in a focus group discussions
we
the sense that we got wasn't the domestic violence as increased a lot up to
two thousand and five by which can be associated with the increase in alcohol chops
which in turn is associated the policy level of the to realization of a consequence
what kind of policy recommendations would you have on the basis of this research
be visited a lot of twenty stations as well in other words concern
and are considering that domestic violence as increase quite a lot of pitch set two
thousand and five we did not see a women's unit which is supposed to be
the in woody stations we did not see that the local level at all they
didn't mention that there was a women's set and one the mean only stations in
the city
but that really was not helpful of the local level so one of the policy
recommendations that we would probably make would be to have a women's unit in the
only station and the sensitised the police
procedures to due to the men's issues especially domestically