Gender into Urban Climate Change Initiative

Status Quo of Pilot Cities – Mexico

population (Social Development Evaluation Council of Mexico City, 2019). This measurement shows that half of the women living in Mexico City live in poverty (50.3%) Besides, in Mexico City, also in this condition we find 7 out of 10 children under the age of 15, 80 per cent of those who speak an indigenous language and 47 per cent of those who have a disability (Mexico City Social Development Evaluation Council, 2019).

As noted in the previous section, CDMX is a very large city in terms of how many people live and transit through its territory. This has led to a heterogeneous landscape in which inequality coexists in the daily life of the different territorial demarcations. According to the Social Development Index, when comparing the conditions of social development of the city's inhabitants, it stands out that only two of the 16 municipalities have a high degree of social development. This means that in a large part of the CDMX, the population does not meet its basic needs in relation to (i) the quality and space available in housing, (ii) access to electricity, (iii) durable goods, (iv) health adequacy, (v) access to social security and medical service, and (vi) educational level (Gaceta Oficial de la Ciudad de México, 2016) (see Table 1).

In relation to urban housing, in the political districts of Mexico City the average number of inhabitants per house is 3.4. It can be seen that due to the exponential urbanization of the city and the metropolitan area, irregular settlements have increased in risk areas and conservation land; a situation that was aggravated by the earthquake that occurred on September 19, 2017. The latest data from the local administration indicate that by 2016 irregular human settlements in the CDMX grew at a rate of 37%, which at that time represented a total of 2,739.12 hectares (PAOT, 2016).