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Expert Group Meeting On Gender-Friendly Sustainable Cities in Asia and the Pacific: Rebuilding Communities Affected by Disaster and Conflict |
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Gender mainstreaming is a crucial aspect of good urban governance, as we work together towards making the international community peaceful, equitable and stable. It is quite certain that gender mainstreaming has been substantially improved, compared to 30 years ago, though it has not yet advanced to the point of creating balanced societies.
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Violence Against Women in Urban Areas |
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Although women’s contribution in today’s societies is essential and indisputable, nowhere is their status on a par with men’s. Women are a vulnerable group in all areas. With respect to violence, the evidence is revealing and irrevocable: not only are women particularly affected by many forms of violence, but most often these happen inside what should be the most secure of environments; their own homes. As the United Nations Development Programme’s annual Human Development Report (1995) commented: “In no society are women secure or treated as equal to men. Personal insecurity shadows them from cradle to grave… From childhood through adulthood, they are abused because of their gender”.
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Report on the Pre-Governing Council Partners Consultation on the Gender Equality Action Plan, 28-29 March 2009, Nairobi, Kenya |
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This consultation provided a forum for partners to learn about UN-HABITAT’s Gender Equality Action Plan and discuss contributions from partner organizations towards its implementation. The GEAP is an institutional strategy to reduce gender discrimination and promote gender equality in human settlements development. Participants included representatives from women’s NGOs, housing rights organisations, local government development organisations, women’s land access trusts and UN-HABITAT programme staff.
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A Rapid Gender Assessment Of The Cities Of Bhopal, Gwalior, Indore and Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh, India |
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A Rapid Gender Assessment of the water and sanitation services in the four cities was undertaken by our partner Mahila Chetna Manch, a non-governmental organisation based in Bhopal. It forms the basis of gender mainstreaming strategy for water and sanitation initiatives in these cities. The assessment highlights the critical need for gender disaggregated data in water supply and sanitation services, and the importance of gender-sensitive indicators and gender audits to properly inform water and sanitation policies and strategies.
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A Synthesis Report of Rapid Gender and Pro-Poor Assessments in the 17 Cities of the Water for African Cities (WAC) II Programme |
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This Report is a synthesis report of the participatory and Rapid Gender Assessment (RGA) Reports that were conducted in the 17 cities of the Water for African Cities (WAC) II Programme. They represent the first stage of the Gender Mainstreaming Strategy Initiative of the WAC. The RGA Reports provide the baseline data and priority recommendations for pro-poor gender mainstreaming of the WAC programmes of the cities. The Reports are the result of the work of the following Gender and Water Alliance (GWA) Facilitators, the RGA Teams, and the women and men in slums and informal settlements in each respective city Many thanks to all of them for the effort and commitment they put into their Reports.
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Woman-headed households suffer disproportionately from inadequate housing |
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This extract from the State of the World’s Cities 2008/2009 report, sheds light on the prevalence of woman-headed households in urban households, which lack more than one “shelter deprivation.” These can relate to a lack of durable housing, overcrowding, problems accessing safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation services, or insecurity of tenure. Approximately 20 per cent of the households in the 160 sample cities in UN-HABITAT’s Urban Indicators database are headed by women.
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“A New Strategy to Close the Gender Divide,” printed in Urban World (July 2009) |
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The combined impact of rapid urbanisation, climate change and global economic downturn is creating further inequalities between men and women in cities, especially among the poor. UN-HABITAT’s new Gender Equality Action Plan is helping to address these inequalities.
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Gender and Women Roundtable Report (2010) |
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Held on 24 March 2010 as part of the fifth World Urban Forum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Gender and Women Roundtable “Towards
Safer Cities for Women,” was hosted by the Huairou Commission, Women and Cities International and the Women and Habitat
Network of Latin America, in partnership with UN-HABITAT.
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Islam, Land and Property Research series |
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UN-HABITAT’s (United Nations Human Settlements Programme) global mandate and activities promoting access to land and protecting security of tenure are derived from a range of international human rights and development standards.
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Urban Youth and Sport for Development