Her City

TARGET GROUP: URBAN CAPACITY BUILDING

OBJECTIVES

·        To build a solid toolbox for mainstreaming youth, gender and socioeconomic perspectives by strategically involving girls and young women in urban planning and design on a larger scale.

·        To contribute to a range of the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):

SDG3 on health and well-being,

SDG5 on gender equality,

SDG10 on reducing inequality,

SDG11 on sustainable cities and communities,

SDG16 on peace, justice and strong institutions and

SDG17 on partnerships.

·        To develop a business model based on the mainstreaming of approaches for SDGs.

SUMMARY

Why have UN-Habitat and Global Utmaning initiated Her City? Because people increasingly live in cities. Urban areas are already home to 55 per cent of the world’s population, and that figure is expected to grow to 68 per cent by 2050. Already today, cities account for 70 percent of CO2 emissions. Urbanisation brings enormous challenges, not least in terms of inequality. When poorly or unplanned, it is often followed by widened gaps between the city and rural areas, urban centres and outskirts, and between different groups in society. A billion of the world’s population live in informal urban settlements and with rapid and unplanned urbanisation there is a predominant risk that disadvantaged urban dwellers will drastically increase. Among the most vulnerable are young women in socio-economically disadvantaged areas. Research shows that girls and women do not use a city’s public spaces to the same extent as boys or men. From the age of eight, 80 percent of the public spaces can be dominated by boys, and girls express that they feel significantly more insecure and excluded.

REFERENCE

https://unhabitat.org/sites/default/files/2021/03/02032021_her_city_publication_low.pdf