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‘How to stay home? Immediate interventions to fight COVID-19 in precarious neighbourhoods in Lisbon Metropolitan Area’, was funded by a special line — GENDER RESEARCH 4 COVID19 —created exclusively to address the impacts of the pandemic regarding gender inequalities. The maxim 'stay at home', based on confinement, social distance and compliance with the hygiene conditions, is difficult to guarantee in precarious neighborhoods.
The proposal was built upon the participation of women in a program of rapid interventions in space and daily habits, aimed at implementing immediate measures to minimize infection rates in conditions of housing precarity.
Although very compressed in time, and budget, this research project managed to provided 4 results/insights
— GENDERING HOUSING PRECARITY, A GUIDE
Gender was not addressed yet, as an analytic category in relation to housing precarity, under the Portuguese context. In ‘How to stay home?’ we categorized different situations within this broad universe: we interviewed women who live in very precarious neighborhoods (unable to fulfill the social distance and hygiene conditions required in the pandemic), but also women who occupied municipal flats, evicted tenants, refugees, Roma women. This mosaic was guaranteed by partnerships in the field, with neighborhood associations, local associations and activists, in a close parallel to what is expected in Care(4)Housing. The result was a publication, that we called a ‘guide’, free and accessible at the end of the project
— A SITUADED SURVEY
We applied a face-to-face survey to women in situations of precariousness and vulnerability regarding housing conditions, care labor and gender roles. In 4 months, we applied this survey to 232 women (family universe of 810), privileging physical contact. We understood that the large majority of surveys are now online based, what keeps these disenfranchised women living in precarious situations from being part of the statistics.
We will also benefit from the experience of developing a survey with the community by giving training to local associations and supervising the work.
— A SPATIALIZED MANUAL ON ‘HOW TO STAY HOME?’
In addition to the publication, we have also developed a manual (printed and videos), with guidelines for staying at home. We believe that these visual materials are an important contribution in the dissemination of correct information on the use of the space of the house for people infected or suspected of infection, mainly addressed to an audience with low levels of literacy.
The manual got the attention of the High Commission for Migrations (ACM) and the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality (CIG) and those institutional entities supported the translated into Urdu, Nepalese, Arabic, Cape Verdean Creole and English.
| Research Centre | Research Group | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
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| DINAMIA'CET-Iscte | Cities and Territories | Leader | 2020-08-01 | 2020-11-30 |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
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| Joana Pestana Lages | Integrated Researcher (DINAMIA'CET-Iscte); | Principal Researcher | 2020-08-01 | 2020-11-30 |
| Reference/Code | Funding DOI | Funding Type | Funding Program | Funding Amount (Global) | Funding Amount (Local) | Begin Date | End Date |
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| 121 | -- | Contract | FCT - -- - Portugal | 12496 | 12496 | 2020-08-01 | 2020-11-30 |
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With the objective to increase the research activity directed towards the achievement of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, the possibility of associating scientific projects with the Sustainable Development Goals is now available in Ciência_Iscte. These are the Sustainable Development Goals identified for this project. For more detailed information on the Sustainable Development Goals, click here.
