The aim of the proposed project is to explore some of the effects of civil war on different household types in one of Luanda most populous peri-urban area. The project will assess how households headed by women and men respond to adversity and secure their livelihoods in an environment of conflict, economic decline and social disparities. More specifically, this project will provide empirical data on the situation of children in the different household type for micro development interventions in a peace building and reconstruction phase.
Against this background, the aims of the present project is to more accurately assess through the cases of Luanda’s peri-urban area, how conflict situation may have impacted positively or negatively on family arrangements and subsequently on households unit headed by women. Given the fact that the bulk of gender and development literature portray women-headed households as being over-represented among the poorest segment of the population, as being more vulnerable than their counterparts in male-headed household, and as being bad for children, it seems important to test whether these assumptions hold in the case of Luanda peri-urban area.
