Other Planning Considerations For Gender Equality

Other Planning Considerations For Gender Equality

Aside from securing the land tenure for the purpose of this project, there were several aspects of Baghere's rural planning processes that might need to be adapted in order to reduce gender inequality and foster better inclusivity of women into the urban planning methodologies, both adminsitratively and technically: (The World Bank, 2020) 1. Administratively • Set out overarching commitments to guide gender-inclusive planning and design processes toward meningful, effective outcomes and long-term improvements in the status of women, girls, and exual and gender minorities • Provide practicable methodologies, activities, and good practices for incorporating and elevating the voices of women, girls, and sexual and gender minorities in participatory planning and design processes • Give clear, specific design guidelines, appropriate for and adaptable to all regions, for a range of planning and project typologies carried out 2. Technically • Provide better employment, education, and basic human endowments to struggling women in the village of Baghere – eg: through making tenure processes more streamlined for projects such as the Kaira Looro, provide community gathering forums. • Allevaite the struggle to accumulate wealth and achieve economic independence – eg: through policy to secure women's employment and those that encourage local enterpreneurship such as reduced corporate taxations etc • Improvement to basic services and infrastructure – eg: in relations to needs and WASH, upgrade basic water and electrical infrastructures • Improve social freedoms - I.e. by eliminating barriers that hinder women from building social networks to cope with risk, stress, and shock – for example, invest in electricity and telecommunications as well as regular programs targeted towards women • Foster women's participation to exercise agency in public decision-making including decisions that shape the built environment – setting up a platform for participatory design such as through the design of community surveys, census, interviews and/or peer reviews from local women towards council's local planning proposals and agendas; and also provide a secure land rights for women to ensure they have greater sense of belonging to communal decisionmaking aside from also providing them with opportunities for obtaining equal income.