Giulia Maci
Moderator
Join our session to explore tools and methods for gender-sensitive urban planning. Together, we’ll exchange insights and discuss best practices to scale up inclusive policies and women-led initiatives, creating cities that work better for everyone.
In cities, peripheral urban areas and low-income neighbourhoods often lack both infrastructure and resources for urban services, climate resilience, and sustainable development. Further amplified by climate change, these urban challenges exacerbate vulnerabilities in marginalised communities, particularly affecting women and girls. Because a city working for women works better for everyone, gender-inclusive urban development is not only a matter of ethical imperative, it is also a strategic necessity. Women, as informal community leaders, offer untapped expertise for fostering inclusive urban sustainability. It is urgent to empower women to lead in these areas through inclusive, intersectional urban planning. Cities Alliance and GIZ developed gender-sensitive planning methods and tools to improve urban services and encourage women's participation. This training session will include the presentation and discussion of practical tools, case studies, and group discussions to scale up inclusive, intersectional and gender-sensitive policies for inclusive urban development.
Through a world café discussion, participants will rotate to take part in the exchanges at each table:
Awareness Raising on Gender and the City: Broadcast mechanisms for empowering women, acknowledging their expertise to lead the revitalisation of low-income and peripheral neighbourhoods.
Implementing Women-Led Urban Initiatives: Facilitate the spreading of identified best practices and collectively reflect on the lessons learnt from the field to collectively improve our practices.
Scaling-Up Local Successes: Systematise gender-sensitive and intersectional urban development, accessible to all and applicable to different contexts.