Thematic brief on gender and urban development

This Thematic Brief provides quick guidance on the most important issues relating to gender and urban development.

This Brief is addressed to staff from development cooperation agencies who are involved in urban development programmes and projects.

Here, staff from development cooperation agencies will find information on the most important gender issues at stake in urban development, and how to address them, as well as indicators that can be used to monitor whether a programme is integrating gender dimensions, examples of gender-sensitive development actions and references to further information and tools related to gender and urban development.

Issues related to gender and specific sub-sectors such as water and sanitation; health; transport; and decentralisation are covered more extensively in other thematic briefs of this same series.

Contents

Introduction 

Gender issues in urban development

A roadmap for gender mainstreaming in urban development programmes

Questions for gender analysis in Urban Development

Gender sensitive indicators for urban development

Examples of gender-sensitive projects in urban development