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Table of Contents Urban Thinkers Campus in figures.............................................................................................................................................. 4 Introduction................................................................................................................................................................................. 5 The City We Need principle(s) addressed.................................................................................................................................. 6 Matrix of linkages - TCWN 1.0 vs. new recommendations....................................................................................................... 7 Key outcomes.............................................................................................................................................................................. 8 Key recommendations................................................................................................................................................................ 9 Key actors................................................................................................................................................................................. 10 Outstanding issues................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Urban solutions......................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Speakers................................................................................................................................................................................... 30 List of all countries present...................................................................................................................................................... 31 List of organizations present................................................................................................................................................... 32 Universities and Institutions..................................................................................................................................................... 32
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Urban Thinkers Campus in figures
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1,937
COUNTRIES REPRESENTED
PARTICIPANTS
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43
ORGANIZATIONS
CONSTITUENT GROUPS REPRESENTED
* We are documenting 1,343 participants in the Campus with name and city where they live (full list attached) with them were carried out: workshops, participatory assessments forums, talks, academies, gatherings, urban audits, and socio-dramas. Took part 594 through surveys that did not ask the name of respondents. Both numbers give a grand total of 1,937 participants in the Campus, 70% were woman. Around 3% of people did not give its name, which means that participation was around 2,000 people. The 18.4% of the national population lives in the 29 Mexican cities, which participated in this initiative.
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Introduction
URBAN THINKER CAMPUS MIRA – HUAIROU – FEMUM1 “Since they did not know it was impossible they did it”. -Calle 13
The Campus was formed as a joint initiative of three international net-
The classroom had a virtual library with inputs gathered from various
works who responded to the call of the World Urban Campaign of UN
sources to bring to conclusion the reflections on unfamiliar topics for most
Habitat: the Huairou Commission, Mujeres Iberoamericanas en Red (MIRA)
of the participants. To support this exercise, we translated the base docu-
and Federación de Mujeres Municipalistas de América Latina y el Caribe
ments (only available in English) developed by UN Habitat. We elaborated
(FEMUM ALC).
info-graphics as a teaching resource that summarized, in a simple manner, the contents of the issues. We set up Facebook and Twitter as tools for
The overall objective of this Campus was to develop a proposal “For the
dissemination in the participating cities.
right to an egalitarian, inclusive, productive, safe and livable city for women and men, towards Habitat III”, nourished by the proposals of the groups
We conducted a participatory work in the framework of human rights with
of women and men of the participating cities, which were originally 13
a gender perspective. We developed methodologies with propaedeutic
cities in total. The open call to add more groups to this initiative managed
input, in issues of human rights and gender, to achieve a conception and a
the response from groups of 31 cities: 29 Mexican and two Peruvian.
common language among participants.
The project fundraised $14,300 USD for one of the 31 participating cities,
We implemented the peer methodology, with particular involvement of
with resources from Fondo de Coinversión Social del Instituto Nacional de
grassroots women. This methodology was also useful for other groups
Desarrollo Social (INDESOL), an institution of the Mexican Federal Gov-
with thematic identity or other identity.
ernment. The rest of the funds for this initiative came from the volunteer work of social activists, grassroots women and people from academic and government institutions. InmujeresCDMX To develop the initiative we built a virtual classroom and had weekly virtual meetings, for a few weeks, including morning and afternoon sessions.
The guidelines established by UN Habitat on the number of words in each of the sections of the report is very limited for the case of our Campus, which includes the participation of groups in 31 cities in two countries. However, there will be a thorough effort to synthesize.
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@InmujeresCDMX
7 Oct 2015
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Different participatory tools were used for the various cities involved:
UTCs were held in several cities across the country. Some cities are locat-
workshops, participatory assessments, forums, discussion groups, grass-
ed on the border to the United States of America, within the Pacific, at the
roots women’s academies , surveys to carry out urban audits with a gender
Gulf of Mexico, in the Mexican Caribbean, and in the heart of the country.
perspective, in-depth interviews, safety audits, and socio-dramas tech-
Among the participating cities there were four metropolitan areas: Valle
nique for the development of dynamic campuses for children thinkers.
de Mexico, Cancun, Tampico-Madero-Altamira, and Zacatecas-Guadalupe.
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The City We Need principle(s) addressed The principles of The Right to the City 1. Democratic Management of the City 2. The Social Function of the City 3. The Social Function of the Property 4. Full Exercise of Citizenship 5. Equality and Non-Discrimination 6. Special Protection for Vulnerable Persons and Groups 7. The Private Sector´s Social Undertaking 8. Economic Solidarity and Progressive Policies
Paisaje Interno @rpaisajeinterno
9 Nov 2015
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9. Gender Perspective and Age-related
A Grassroots Academy is a methodology that uses the principles of peer learning. Participants use participatory processes to reflect on larger political and development issues, starting from the positive place of their own successful development practices. Academies are often used as preparatory events held before larger policy events at the UN or other spaces. The Grassroots Academy methodology won the Dubai Best Practices Award in 2006. See https://huairou.org/tools-and-methodologies
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Sociodrama is a technique by which a group of individuals select and spontaneously enact a specific social situation common to their experience.
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Matrix of linkages - TCWN 1.0 vs. new recommendations In the proposals we have identified crosscutting principles and their relat-
and c) citizens observatories as mechanisms for social participation, which
ed instruments of general application.
Mexico has extensive experience.
The crosscutting principles are: a) human rights, b) gender perspective, c)
With this approach we are uniting the contents fields of human rights with
citizen participation, d) sustainability, and e) multiculturalism. The mech-
a gender perspective, citizen participation, and multiculturalism, with the
anisms of general application are: a) the results-based budgeting2, b) the
guidelines of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the cross-
progress indicators that measure the progressiveness of human rights3,
cutting theme of sustainability.
The City We Need
Public Space For The City We Need Promotes
The city we need is equitable for women and men
Mainstreaming gender equality in the city we need: The main approach of our proposal is mainstreaming gender equality in all urban matters. Public policy related to the city, all levels of city planning, as well as the development process for public spaces must take into account both men’s and women’s opinions, needs, and interests; holding gender equality as a guiding core principle.
The city we need is socially inclusive
Inclusive public space for all, particularly women. Public spaces need to be created, recuperated, organized, and managed according to the needs of man and women, especially grassroots women. They must also take into account different age groups, including older persons, and people with different impairments. Based on a vision of promotion of respect for human rights and gender equality we need to promote spaces and care spaces for children, older persons, young people, and people with different impairments.
The city we need is socially inclusive
Inclusive Public spaces for all, particularly older persons: The city we need promotes an inclusive coexistence, which recognizes older persons as social assets that have contributed significantly to society. The city we need cares for the older persons, addresses holistically the conditions and problems they have, and ensures the population that gradually integrates this group access their human rights. The city we need provides care for the older persons until the end of their lives.
The city we need is socially inclusive
Inclusive Public spaces for all, particularly vulnerable groups: The city we need is developed jointly among government and civil society, and it takes into account the diversity of needs of people in the different populations, especially the vulnerable groups, such as the migrant population. The situation of rural women and indigenous migrant women are particularly vulnerable. The city we need facilitates socio-cultural spaces that offer reliability, security and respect for human rights with gender equality for the migrant population.
The city we need is a safer city
Safer spaces for all, particularly women. Safer public spaces are not only a matter related to the crime, but with the possibility of access to a decent life, in the individual, the family and community. The aim of Safer Cities is to create a culture of prevention and a safe environment for all urban dwellers (whether women, men, infants, people with disabilities, older persons), through a joint effort amongst local authorities, the system of criminal justice, the private sector and members of civil society that seek to address the issue of urban security, reduce crime and insecurity. Safety in public spaces is a prerequisite for women’s access to all their rights; and to achieve their physical and economic autonomies, as well as their autonomy for participating in political processes and decision-making positions.
The city we need is socially inclusive and safer
Security as a matter of good governance: Within the Safer Cities approach, crime and violence do not arise spontaneously. Inadequate urban environments that exclude certain members of society from the benefits of urbanization, from their participation in decision-making and from urban development, foster crime. The treatment of crime and insecurity is part of good urban governance, which values citizenship and promotes inclusion through consultation and involvement of all citizens in the city decisions and planning - including the population who are marginalized and in poverty.
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The City We Need
Public Space For The City We Need Promotes
The city we need is managed democratically
People centered approach to planning: The city we need incorporates a citizen participatory and deliberative process that mainstreams the gender perspective, and the needs and interests of different age groups, including older persons, and people with different impairments
The city we need is affordable and equitable
Productive Cities: The city that we need requires financial resources to provide the welfare to the community, and to develop a safe, productive and livable city for women and men. Women and men of the city are in a different social position and condition; have different needs and interests, which must be taken into account to achieve the welfare of all and the enjoyment of all their rights. The city we need requires a planning that maximizes the potential of resources, strengthens and improves their financial capabilities. The city we need requires increasing public resources. However, in contexts of great inequality and widespread poverty, are required various redistributive policies, productive development, wage policies in consonance with the guidelines of the ILO decent wages, progressive tax policies, etc., all these actions to ensure access to endogenous resources in order to improve the quality and standard of living in a community. The city we need is based on principles of equality and justice and requires mechanisms of generation and distribution of wealth.
The city we need is economically vibrant and inclusive
Local development with a gender perspective: The city we need boosts Local Economic Development (LED) as a fundamental tool to implement short-term solutions and thereby manage the long-term change. The participatory process for LED allows the recovery of the local market for the community by the self-managed route, from the bottom up through the Social and Solidarity Economy. The city requires a LED with gender perspective to achieve the economic empowerment of women, to strengthen the productivity, improve competitiveness, and therefore create a context of social reproduction that cares for the present and achieves strengthened generations in the future. The city we need develops initiatives and strategies with government, and comprehensive sectorial and societal involvement through participatory processes to increase decent jobs and sustainable enterprises. It promotes and strengthens planning and urban development, to provide sources of employment, with decent wages, that incorporate the proposal of a sustainable economy.
The city we need attends to the social function of food security
Food security: The city we need attend the social function to guarantee the right to adequate food, which incorporates food security and the economic rights to ensure a decent life in dignity. Food security has been defined by FAO as food access and availability, the access to resources to produce them, and the income-generation to buy them. On this regard, rural women play a central role as well as women in urban and peri-urban areas through their increasing participation in urban agriculture; which produces fresh food, creates jobs, recycles municipal waste (compost), creates green belts and strengthens the resilience of cities to climate change (United Nations Organization for Food and Agriculture, FAO).
Key outcomes A key result was the mainstreaming of gender equality in the Habitat
After accessing this vast knowledge, the goal of delivering these proposals
agenda. Another outcome was the addition of Older Persons, as a separate
at the Summit of Habitat III expanded our horizon and we decided to build
theme, since it was incorporated within the vulnerable persons.
in addition an agenda for advocacy at the three levels of government: national, state and municipal; as well as establish ourselves on a permanent
The process of knowing the agenda included reading the 22 issue papers proposed by UN-Habitat. This allowed us to determine the integrity and scope of the agenda, as well as gaps.
basis as Urban Thinkers’ Communities.
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During 2015 the Secretariat of UN Habitat requested to align our propos-
Key recommendations
als to the new set of guidelines for expert groups clustered into 10 Policy Units for Matrix of areas, thematic papers and policy units; and instructed to develop them using three sequential areas: challenges, priorities and
Initially we conducted a systematization of the proposals of the cities
implementation. We began to carry out this instruction once the December
belonging to the Campus, arranged according to the 22 thematic papers
31st unedited versions elaborated by the experts were published. We
drawn up by UN Habitat. In addition, we have added a 23rd paper on Older
proceeded to translate them in order to eliminate the language barrier in
Persons. These brief documents are part of Appendix 2 of this report.
this exercise of social creation of knowledge from the bottom up. These issue papers were developed by extracting what can be generally Consequently, for the presentation of the key findings we decided to use
applicable from the proposals of the cities that make up this campus. We
the document prepared by the experts of the Policy Unit 1 - Right to the
have set aside the peculiar needs of each city since these will be inte-
Cities and Cities for All, published on December 31st. unedited version
grated in the City´s Reports to be delivered to Mexican authorities in the
by the Secretariat of UN Habitat (www.habitat3.org). On the material
course of 2016.
elaborated by experts of this unit, we intersperse with track changes reflections and proposals from our Campus. This, along with the objective
For the development of this exercise we standardized a methodology that
to create synergies, heightens the impact and reduces the dispersion in
allowed, from the beginning of the Campus work, the participatory formu-
the collection of these proposals through a single procedure. We believe
lation of the issues and their subsequent systematization. These parted
that this Policy Unit summarizes all that we expect from the New Urban
from: a) principles associated with the topic; b) the problems identified by
Agenda, and is, for us, the overall Action Plan. While the remaining Policy
the participants, c) the respective proposals, including recommendations
Units become Programs; that is, how-to- do-it. In these other Policy Units
on strategic indicators to develop or improve for further follow up, d) stra-
we also interspersed the proposals of our Campus. We kindly requested
tegic viability and / or good practices that will be invaluable references to
the Secretariat of the UN to pass on to the relevant experts’ panel, and
our proposals, e) what was noted in the Report of Mexico towards Habitat
make accessible the documents resulting from these exercises in each
III in the subject matter, and, f) stakeholders. Here we are delivering a
Policy Unit. This material appears as Appendix 1 of this document.
complete translation of the synthesis of the content of the report.
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Key actors
Outstanding issues
The primary purpose of this area is to mainstream gender perspective into
In order to ensure a timely follow up to selected proposals, we are building
all components of the New Agenda of Habitat, within the framework of
a system of progress indicators that measure access to and enjoyment of
human rights. Hence the importance of adopting the principles on which
people of their rights through participation. We will improve the system
the Charter of Human Right in the City is sustained; as an international
with the activities that we will be continuously conducting as Urban Think-
legal instrument to ensure the full exercise of citizenship for women and
ers Communities in our cities.
men on equal terms. We are in the finishing phase of the process of carrying out safety audits, The key players involved in developing the proposals of the Campus were
surveys, systematization, and surveys analysis of urban audits. The reports
the three mentioned international networks: MIRA - HUAIROU - FEMUM.
of the participating cities are also being completed. These include urban
This exercise was led by women, mostly belonging to the Mexican fem-
solutions and recommendations.
inist movement, in the case of grassroots women belonging to popular urban movements, and Peruvian social activists. This exercise included the
In Mexico in recent weeks it was approved an amendment to the Law of
participation of groups of adult women and older women, women in aca-
Transparency and Access to Information. We are in consultation with the
demics and researchers, members of Civil Society Organizations, members
participants about their interest in getting their names published in the
of grassroots women’s organizations, adult men leaders, professionals,
papers that is being delivered with the results of this initiative.
trade unionists, young girls and boys, persons with disabilities, entrepreneurs, local and federal authorities, parliamentarians, and representatives of international agencies.
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Urban solutions
Magdalena Garcia H @garciamagdalena
SUMMARY OF PROPOSALS
26 Sep 2015
Grupo de niños y niñas de Pensadoras Urbanas DF https://twitter.com/garciamagdalena/status/647876193052561408
Policy Unit 1: Right to the City and Cities for AII 1. Inclusive Cities
2. Migration and Refugees in Urban Areas
• To ensure women´s participation in all levels of development pro-
• Increase access to social, economic, education and health opportuni-
cess, including their participation in the implementation of plans of
ties for men and women, migrants and non-migrants, particularly for
territorial settlement to ensure they are inclusive and they address
grassroots women and indigenous women.
different sets of problems from both genders perspectives. • Promote signature, ratification and monitoring of the Convention relat• To promote spaces and care spaces for children, older persons,
ing to the Status of Refugees of 1951 refugees granting: legal status,
people with different impairments, and young people, based on a
residence and employment rights for men and women, people with
vision of promotion of respect for human rights and gender equality.
disabilities and seniors.
• To create, recuperate, organize, and manage public spaces in the
• Promote and strengthen planning and urban development, to provide
cities according to the needs of women and man, people with dif-
sources of employment, with decent wages, that incorporate the
ferent impairments, and older persons people.
proposal of a sustainable economy for the migrant population, in socio-cultural spaces that offer reliability, security and respect for human
• Promote sports among the inhabitants and recuperate the existing
rights with gender equality.
public spaces for exercise and recreation maintaining a vision of no discrimination and respect for people with different impairments, and older persons, and a gender perspective. • To promote that ombudsperson institutions follow up on the high-impact projects. To ensure this institutions have specialized
• Develop a culture of solidarity from the inhabitants of the territories towards the transit of migrants. • Form community committees to protect migrants in transit through the country
economic and academic support in order to provide with a response based on international best practices, incorporating the gender perspective and ensuring all sectors of the population benefit by
• Develop a state policy on migration that addresses the problem in all its complexity
this high-impact project. • Categorize and combine support systems as well as work materials or advice to promote more integrated programming. • Create and form partnerships between civil society organizations and academic institutions for the presence and representation of civil society in decision-making about the city and about their responsibility to care for the migrant population.
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• Promote the recognition and certification of knowledge to facilitate the protection and integration of international migrants.
3. Safer Cities • To reformulate the problem of insecurity and crime as a result of inadequate urban environments that exclude massive contingents of people
• Have an education and training program, and timely practical help to small-scale farm workers who encounter difficulties in their work. • Report and disseminate among the newly established migrants, citi-
from social benefits of urbanization, from participation in decision – making, and from urban development. • To promote services and campaigns against violence against women,
zens agreements in the city, offering knowledge about CSOs and their
discrimination and exclusion of people with disabilities and older per-
activities to assist the population.
sons.
• Ensure connectivity with the central parts of the city and establish
• To design and implement protocols that meet the highest standards of
mechanisms for linkage between neighborhood committees and munic-
human rights protection for each of the crimes or problems related to
ipal institutions.
violence against women such as harassment, abuse, rape, femicide.
• Create access to urban living spaces for migrant women and particular-
• Promote and support projects to modify situations of violence and
ly grassroots women and indigenous women, with gender perspective
reconstitute the social fabric with Community policies and compre-
and multiculturalism, allowing them to own houses and insurance
hensive strategies on matters such as: Social and Solidarity Econo-
and trust in land areas without risk to the family: parks with adequate
my in popular urban areas; development of mechanisms and binding
infrastructure, functional sports facilities and cultural centers
instruments to encourage owners of industries and enterprises to generate decent jobs in areas of greatest abandonment; creation
• Responses in urban environments should be based on the agreement
of community business centers that have job vacancies and job
about a clear desired result or a humanitarian objective. They should
centers; Care Economy to ensure time for upbringing, and improve
take into account the whole affected population and not just the dis-
the overall education of children; to promote mass sports activities;
placed.
citizen strategies based on the solidarity principle for everyday security surveillance at bus stops and on public transport; and suffi-
• Policies and strategies developed jointly among government and civil
cient budget increase for the recovery of public spaces.
society will improve if the diversity of needs of people in these populations is known.
• To create systems to report areas of insecurity, assaults and promote a civic culture of prevention and care for urban areas.
• Categorize and combine support systems as well as materials or legal advice to promote more integrated programming.
• To use virtual geo-referencing systems to detect and eradicate dangerous urban areas.
• Implement surveys on perception of discrimination on grounds of racial or ethnic origin, language, etc.
• To conduct urban citizens audits that are binding for immediate attention of their results and of the requests to local authorities.
• Promote strengthened cooperation and collective action in border cities. • Harness the catalyst role that the United Nations are playing actively, to create more dialogue and interaction between countries and regions
• To provide better lighting, and more police. • To provide video surveillance systems for urban red zones where it´s known crimes are committed.
as well as to promote the exchange of experiences and opportunities for collaboration.
• To reformulate and extend Neighborhood Watch programs through
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consultation and integration of neighborhood councils in coordination with authorities, business owners in the area, social organizations,
• To provide with safe and exclusive transport service for women in night shifts.
professionals in the field. To agree on comprehensive measures to prevent crime, promote safe environment according to the needs of men, women, and persons with disabilities and older persons.
• To regulate the responsibility of companies to pay a proportional share of cases involving granting night time shuttle service for men and women, the requirements for the disabled and senior citizens in order
• To foster a culture of citizen reporting of offensives, under the logic of
to ensure safe traffic mobility sure from the workplace to the home.
effective access to justice, accompanied by tracking citizen observatories access to justice
• To establish effective control in schools especially at the medium superior level for protecting the students of the risks of insertion of drug
• To promote the existence of relevant mechanisms to ensure women ‹s
dealing in schools; prostitution or trafficking.
access to prompt and expeditious justice. • To dedicate more promotion, budget and ongoing equipment to Wom• To enact comprehensive legislation to prevent, address and punish
en’s Justice Center.
forced disappearances and missing persons by individuals, from a gender perspective and human rights.
• To create an integrated and coherent information system, that can be comparable and geo-referenced, and that includes progress indicators
• To establish the implementation of AMBER Alert or a Child Abduc-
disaggregated by sex on violence and crime.
tion Emergency mechanism as well as similar mechanisms when for children women, older persons and disabled persons are missing, to comply with the precautionary measures and immediate search. • To issue alerts for locating women and girls, at the first notice of the disappearance.
• To allocate budgets that address the structural causes of violence and in amounts that are commensurate with the magnitude of the problem.
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Policy Unit 2: Socio-Cultural Urban Framework
Policy Unit 3: National Urban Policies
4. Urban Culture and Heritage
5. Urban Rules and Legislation
• To build a cultural and artistic agenda with active participation of cit-
• To provide legal frameworks that state the financial resources of the
izenship, that respects and encourages respect for human rights, that
habitat requirements, with an irreducible statement to prevent shrink-
promotes a vision for women free of stereotypes and of the exclusive
age and diversion of their destiny
allocation of roles (mother daughter, sister). A culture that in everyday urban life respects and values women who decide to change roles
• To reform the property rights regime where private ownership results in
and not to continue with certain stereotypes about who to be, their
exclusion by recognizing and supporting the social function of property
profession, and about their participation in social, political, productive,
and a diversity of land tenure systems. The current legal framework of
reproductive and general economic life. That agenda should include,
land use generates consequences that affect community life.
reflect and propose strategies related to older persons and people with any disability so they can be conceived as active members of the city,
• To enact harmonized methodologies for the preparation and publication
without spatial barriers that obstruct their development and mobility.
of urban development plans, under the principles of maximum disclosure, in order to simplify their interpretation and encourage their ob-
• Incentives and budgets for the promotion of different groups and artistic circles of dance, theater, music, painting, film, photography. • Promote the creation of artistic and cultural advisory councils to gener-
servance by the government staff, property companies, and the general public. • To ensure urban planning incorporates a citizen participatory and delib-
ate discussion and proposals on the role of art and culture in the cities
erative process that includes transversely the gender perspective, and
of the XXI century.
the needs and interests of older people. • To establish regulation principles so that urban equipment is carried out with guidelines for safe cities. • To promote legislation for the creation of Local Development Agencies involving the private and social sector (with equal participation of men and women, including grassroots women) to plan and to monitor on a daily basis the city that is being built collectively.
Magdalena Garcia H @garciamagdalena
26 Sep 2015
Preparando la georeferenciación para el Recorrido Urbano en Gabriel Hernández en el Campus de Pensadoras Urbanas DF https://twitter.com/garciamagdalena/status/647874976654036992
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Policy Unit 4: Urban Governance, Capacity and Institutional Development
large municipalities. Promote equal participation of men and women, including grassroots women, in the public, private and social sectors. • Develop citizens’ initiatives to punish political parties for co-opting
6. Urban Governance
grassroots women. This is a harmful practice that limits progress in the
• Develop mechanisms to disseminate what other citizens, organizations
creation of citizenship. Promote citizen actions so grassroots women
and government agencies do, in order to consolidate social networks
know their rights, are empowered and achieve efficient, relevant and
and strengthen existing ones. Create mechanisms for networking is
sufficient provision of urban services that are their legitimate rights.
essential for boosting participation and to make it self-sustaining over time.
• Create institutions and mechanisms for transparency and accountability at the municipal level.
• Develop a directory of formal or informal social organizations to be disseminate their work and promote the involvement of more actors.
• Incorporation of observatories, and advisory councils as mechanisms for citizen participation in planning, monitoring, evaluation and recom-
• Promote consultancy activities for grassroots women and the general
mendation of incorporation of best practices.
population so they know how to organize and empower themselves as citizens.
• Promote citizen audits on mainstreaming a gender perspective in policies, programs and municipal government budgets.
• Promote direct involvement of grassroots women with the municipal authorities
• Include exemplary sanctions on the Accountability Act of public servants
• Build coordination between government institutions and citizens based on the knowledge of the laws.
• Carry out, collect and disseminate studies on how much it costs to the countries the corruption of government staff.
• To incorporate equal participation of women, particularly grassroots women in the reforms of urban governance.
• Ensure that government programs include a gender perspective and affirmative actions aimed at reducing inequality gaps between women
• Institutionalize communication between citizens and public officials
and men, in the context of participatory democracy.
through mechanisms of inter-sectorial participation as Local Development Agencies in the territory, at municipal or neighborhood level in
• Empower grassroots women, civil society organizations, CSOs, so they accompany governance and promote the Right to the City and the incorporation of the Gender Perspective.
Carmen Contreras
Magdalena Garcia H @garciamagdalena
26 Sep 2015
@Utopia_Urbana
8 Oct 2015
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Policy Unit 5: Municipal Finance and Local Fiscal Systems
• Regulation regarding participatory budgets with a gender perspective,
7. Municipal Finance
• Strengthen and generalize participatory budgets with a gender per-
• Apply various redistributive and progressive tax policies in order to expand the local resources, increase the collection of municipal gov-
to ensure informed participation of women.
spective, as a process of development of citizenship skills and the strengthening of governance systems in local participatory budgets.
ernments, reduce inequality gaps between rich and poor, and gender gaps. Policies that allow carrying out redistribution processes through
• Quarterly posts on the Government Institution websites of the different
tax incentives to women heads of households, persons with disabili-
classifications of expenditure in useful formats for analysis and re-
ties, older persons, grassroots women, etc.
search
• Secure public consultation the award of public services to private companies. Design conditions of service concession in participatory
• Create citizen mechanisms to monitor and evaluate the budget procedures and the exercise of spending in different areas.
and deliberative forums with the population receiving the service. • Development of protocols for the creation and operation of citizens • Carry out studies on cost-benefit estimates of social economic and envi-
observatories
ronmental aspects of companies and privatized sectors to determine the way forward to ensure on-time delivery, quality and affordability of the
• Have an inter-sectorial body with participation of women, to monitor
product or service offered. These are usually associated with a human
and avoid over-indebtedness. This has led to losses of entire countries
right: water, education, health, natural resources, the media, etc.
and has severely affected several municipalities in the country.
• Move towards a more equitable distribution of the resources generated
• Use Local Development Agencies to monitor projects and exercise ex-
in the territory, to strengthen municipal autonomy with checks and
penditure in local governments, in order to reduce the risk and thus the
balances that rely on increasing social participation of people with an
cost of international financial market financing of local governments.
expanding degree of information and knowledge of the issues of government work.
• Promote that the international and domestic financial sector recognize social guarantees and moral pledge of grassroots women’s groups for
• Comply with relevant legislation on municipal autonomy. • To mainstream gender budgeting which means: knowing and recognizing different interests and needs of women and men; implement
credits for urban projects. • Improve systems for financing urban infrastructure with not onerous resources from development bank.
the budget design based on the results of the diagnostic measuring gender inequality gaps between women and men; seek to eliminate
• The self-assessment tool of municipal finance from the World Bank
the inequality gaps through the principle of progressiveness of human
must include in its application a gender perspective and equal social
rights. Reinforce laws that encourage public service staff achieving the
participation of women.
objectives, and sanction compliance with their responsibilities The following proposals are ordered according to capitulated decided by • Universal access to social programs with higher priority for those geographic areas with less access or greater hazard and risk.
the group of experts from the Policy Unit this topic. This request is supported by the Mandates established in the Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), for which the list
• Identify and implement tax incentives. In the context of an inclusive and productive city it would have to do with the equal land gains.
of signatory countries is attached.
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Rules of the Game
and who manage the needs for habitat of their territories (expenditure
• Approve the norms related to the incorporation of Gender Perspective
allocated to affirmative actions).
in the Budgeting process. • Allocate increasing resources to Participative Budgets. • Develop Budget Designs that include resources to reduce inequalities between women and men.
Revenues • Avoid the regressive effects of the structures of tributary systems on
• Advance in the institutionalization of Participative Budgets with Gen-
women.
der Perspective, so as to improve attention to the needs of women and men living in a municipality.
Financial Management • Elaborate manuals, procedures and protocols that incorporate gender
• Incorporate Gender Indicators in the Performance Indicators Systems
perspective.
so as to measure the results of the Budgeting Process related to closing the gap of inequality between women and men.
• Execute social cost-benefit studies to measure the costs of opportunities of budgeting actions realized or omitted on population with
• Create and support Civilian Observation Mechanisms that analyze,
unequal conditions between women and men.
measure/monitor, assess, and contribute to the continuous improvement of the results of Budgeting Policies related to closing the gap of inequality between women and men.
• Develop gender and human rights capacities and knowledge for public servants.
Expenditure
Borrowing
• Achieve increasing budgets that incorporate resources to attend to
• Create normative previsions and procedures to impede that the neg-
the differentiated needs and interests of women and men (transversal
ative results of the indebtedness processes end up reducing the funds
expenditure).
destined to closing the gap of inequality between women and men.
• Allocate resources needed to attend to urgent needs and interests of grassroots women who inhabit urban and peri-urban poor zones,
• Recognize the social and moral guarantees as collateral of the grassroots women’s debts for urban projects in which they are involved in the design, monitoring, follow-up, and assessment of said projects.
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Policy Unit 6: Urban Spatial Strategies: Land Market and Segregation
• Ensure government agencies fully monitor and guarantee that no irreg-
8. Urban and Spatial Planning and Design
9. Urban Land
• Ensure a comprehensive urban design that takes into account the
• To develop types of social and individual dwelling that recognize, reg-
ular human settlements are built and no urban planning is breached. Citizen committees to monitor government agencies.
demands and needs of citizens, ensuring security for women to live
ulate and foster the development of homes for productive activities,
free of violence public space. The urban design should be built and
where women could carry out productive projects such as, social and
rebuilt under guidelines on: 1) Safe Cities, consistent with the require-
solidarity based economic projects. This would promote the advance-
ments of women; 2) Safe Cities, consistent with the requirements of
ment of women economic autonomy.
people older cities; 3) Urban Land usufruct that enables promotion and government support for income-generating activities; real estate devel-
• To promote legislation that focus on land tenure and usufruct rights,
opments that recognize and integrate the productive and reproductive
and on solving the complex problems derived from disorderly develop-
needs of women; and policies that recognize the social production of
ment of the cities, instead of focusing on criminalization of irregular
habitat.
actions, which are the result of planning excluding cities.
• Take positive action on rehabilitation of spaces streams that serve as
• To promote regulation of urban expansion and the equitable and trans-
garbage dumps. Invest and encourage appropriation and transforma-
parent distribution of capital gains that benefit the inhabitants of the
tion of streams to become linear parks that connect and revitalize the
territory, by the existence and operation of Citizens Observatories to
city, serving as green spaces and mobility.
monitor the management of the Urban Development Program, Land Use Planning, and the implementation of land use regulations.
• Organize the development of the peripheral zone with alternative access to specific parts of the city.
• To enact legal and programmatic frameworks for the mixed use of land and buildings, and its counterpart in polycentric cities, that ensures
• Legislate the obligation for housing complex to have green areas and common spaces.
integrated neighborhoods with infrastructure, local equipment and services containing: small businesses, financial service centers, shops, schools, housing, clinics; and also productive micro housing, Commu-
• Improve the analysis and monitoring of the evolution of the real estate
nity Business centers, care facilities for children, disabled and older
projects to respond to a balanced development not conducive to socio-
persons; domestic community services such as laundries and canteens;
economic segregation
theaters, cinemas, sports clubs, churches, parks and gardens.
• Create mechanisms and institutions to follow up on high-impact projects and ensure they have specialized academic supports to provide a
• To eradicate practices that prevent access to urban land usufruct established by the standards or governments.
balanced response that benefit all sectors of the population. • To increase representation of women in administrative institutions • Conduct public consultations for urban design, land use, maintenance and creation of public spaces.
responsible for the registration and titling of possession and use of land.
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10. Urban-rural linkages • Develop an urgent long-term policy for the recovery of the agricultural
• To allocate resources and support for women to increase their use of native seeds in rural and urban agriculture.
sector. The urban- rural relationship based on food security should be considered. Promote a healthy balance that considers a policy with agricultural subsidies to eliminate the deteriorating terms of trade
• Conduct studies on the impact of GM foods and publicize its findings to rethink the policy.
field-city. • Provide mechanisms for social surveillance for monitoring agricultural • Promote Rural Banking and agricultural extension, since those proved
programs.
to be effective practices for the reactivation of the field. Promote an appropriate social subsidies policy and non-burdensome agricultural
11. Public Space
production.
• Design new public spaces planned integrally for all sectors of the population (older persons, children, men and women, disabled)
• Create Citizens Observatories to monitor the timely exercise of the public spending in the municipalities, considering the equality between
• Tag resources and look for sponsors for public spaces
women and men. • Adopt new legal right trend to ownership of public space, which makes • Develop a comprehensive program with residents of the ejido areas to
compulsory community consultation about the design and use.
reform urban land use and redesign it with reference to the Right to the City as a collective human right.
• Provide funds to create, retrieve, renovate, restore, remodel or improve spaces. The criteria set up for the distribution of the fund should be
• Devote resources to FAO’s Special Programme for Food Security (SPFS) to be applied to urban agriculture developed by women living in mar-
based on public, social and economic use; inclusive of women, men, infants, youth, older persons and with any type of disability.
ginalized peri-urban and urban areas. • Apply legislation and encourage the creation of neighborhood organiza• Increase resources for the Special Programme for Food Security (SPFS)
tions and citizens observatories.
for rural women. • Improve official monitoring bodies and citizen surveillance. • Provide support programs for agricultural women laborers who have no land ownership and don´t have access to government supports. But
• Create bike lanes, and repair and maintain existing.
they are who work the land and who rent it to the ejidatarios (rights holders of communal lands) to make it productive.
• Improve, implement and monitor the regulation of street vendors.
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Policy Unit 7: Urban Economic Development Strategies
Care services • Create a Universal Care System (for all those who require care: children, seniors, disabled, chronically ill) with public, private, community
12. Local Economic Development
and family involvement. Requirement of a care policy with direct in-
• Disseminate cases of TNCs (transnational corporation) and CSR (corpo-
volvement of the state, which seeks to maximize the economic empow-
rate social responsibility) practices.
erment of women, balance work-family life and maximize the welfare of women and members of families who require care.
• Promote an award for distinctive companies with corporate social responsibility to be granted by the community in which they are located,
• Create day care homes for older persons, abandoned or disabled.
whose protocol is developed with community participation. • Create childcare facilities for children, including the disabled and in• Make social cost-benefit studies on the contribution of transnational corporations to sustainable development of a territory. • Regulate the exploitation of natural resources and charge big companies for what the natural resources are worth. • Promote the companies that have certification for gender equality.
fants. Traditional kindergartens often lack the infrastructure for people with this condition. • Ensure workingmen the right to access to childcare facilities for children, as a policy of inclusion and collaboration in care work. • Regulate equitable working hours for women and men. Expand parental leave by birth for both men and women. The current maternity
• Promote the consultation of studies on the benefits of gender equality in business from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. • Ensure the inclusion of citizenship in the design of public policy in eco-
leave is not enough to ensure women postpartum recovery; women and babies deaths occur. • Demand equal pay for equal work between men and women, and
nomic-urban matter through Local Development Agencies supported by
employment equity with flexible hours and childcare facilities for both
the Local Urban Observatories as technical arms that provide strategic
genders.
information for decision-making. • Allocate sufficient budget for conducting time-use surveys and creating • Promote membership and signature by the governments to the Optional
satellite accounts of unpaid work. Such surveys are necessary for the
Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
development and implementation of crosscutting policies. Such surveys
Rights.
should be disaggregated by state and municipality.
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• Include a module on time use in the survey and census population and
• Ratify or accede to the ILO Conventions 156 on equality of opportunity
housing count to rely on information every five years, at the municipal
and treatment for workers with family responsibilities; 183 on Materni-
level.
ty Protection; and Convention 189 on workers and domestic workers.
• Develop strategies and protocols to extend the application of the Model of Social Economy and Solidarity, turning to existing good practices in different communities around the world. • Allocate government resources for the development of technical assistance in this initiative by UN agencies, universities, and local social
Entrepreneurship • Expand business opportunities through financial and economic training and education. • Building support with affordable loans, space and freedom by the municipal government for formal employment.
organizations. • The authorities to provide adequate support for productive projects to • Allocate government resources to detonate the creation and development of Community Business Centers. • Develop a portfolio of projects that take into account local vocations and existing best production practices.
Employment • For minimum wages to recover.
reduce unemployment and adequate spaces where they can offer their products. • Generate a public policy for the creation, promotion, distribution, and management of home gardens. • Implement policies that result on better opportunities for agricultural development: best credit, “subsidies” marketing, modernization and training, guaranteed prices and avoidance of middlemen.
• Create jobs and self-employment with social security. • Design programs and actions for women’s access to agricultural credit • Have protocols that sanction employment and sexual harassment in places of public, private and social work.
and loans at preferential interest rates. Provide women with technical assistance, marketing facilities, and appropriate technology. Ensure women and men receive equal treatment in land and agrarian reform
• Legislate in favor of: domestic work so it is considered an asset that
and resettlement.
generates value in use and contributes to the wealth of the family, the community, the municipality, the state and the nation. To recognize
• Recognize and protect traditional technologies and establish interna-
those who carry out this work in the family (mostly women) through the
tional protection for the dispossession that indigenous peoples are
granting of rights to social security and medical services, compensation
suffering on crafts and medicinal traditions in their own communities.
for her age, among others. • Support the integration of women networks to economic and productive processes and to local and regional markets. • Intensify efforts to support entrepreneurship education and business incubators at Community level. • Design actions to develop technological, scientific and digital culture focused on girls and women.
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Institutional development
production to have membership to this pact unilaterally so they can be
• Strengthen policies, services and capabilities of municipal government,
developers and co-formulates of it.
prompting an instance dedicated to promoting economic development. • Labor regulation that promotes the inclusion of a women percentage in
Production development
decision-making job positions. Promote employment quotas for people
• Promote the strengthening of producers’ networks to develop proposals
with disabilities and older persons too.
for economic diversification, which is possible to do with the daily work of a Local Development Agency.
• Develop initiatives and strategies with government, and comprehensive sectorial and societal involvement through participatory processes
• Protect the work of persons under 18 years old, since they are still physically under development.
to increase decent jobs and sustainable enterprises. The societal involvement should include stakeholders in the territory such as: social organizations, unions, entrepreneurs with microenterprises in marginal-
• Empower young people and monitor that school desertion decreases.
ized urban areas, grassroots women, the disabled and youth.
Encourage entrepreneurship and participation in the construction of public spaces and social action.
• Provide creative and innovative centers or production units that facilitate the generation of small independent businesses, under the model
• Seek investment in non-extractive industries. Universities can play an
of social and solidarity based economy, and integrating a gender and
important role in providing incubation services with high standards of
multicultural perspective. This model has been proposed by multicultur-
quality.
al groups.
13. Jobs and Livelihoods • For governments to apply for membership to the Global Jobs Pact of the ILO, which covers the areas of the Decent Work Agenda: em-
• Regulate commercial competition that has allowed the installation of chain stores, which have come to undermine the livelihoods that existed through local trade.
ployment, social protection, international labor standards and social dialogue; it also includes gender analysis; and it offers a portfolio of
• Promote that large retail chains (Wall - Mart and national chains with
policies in line with a more sustainable and inclusive future within
similar practices) have a growing supply of local products purchased at
the framework of a model of fair globalization. For CSOs dedicated to
a fair price
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• Increase opportunities for job training to improve the employability of young people, and for retraining (labor reconversion). • Create a Universal Care System with public, private, community and family participation, to ensure care services and other services for dependent people. This will increase women´s opportunities to partic-
Policy Unit 8: Urban Ecology and Resilience 15. Urban Resilience • Strengthen government coordination and organization to build resilience in segregated, fragmented and insecure territories.
ipate in the labor market on an equal basis with men, and have access to decent income.
• Construction of housing spaces with designs suitable for the size of families; avoid massive customization without design flexibility for
• Promote well-paid part-time employment, and flexible working hours.
14. Informal sector • Carry out a major overhaul of public policy through a broad participatory process, to return to the path of inclusive economic growth, to
diverse homes. • Improve new housing resistance and safety (innovation of building materials, construction techniques and optimal designs for energy saving -illumination, aeration, heating).
reduce informality and eliminate the proliferation of illicit activities. • Create housing designs with great flexibility to adapt to different types • Develop strategies to eradicate through information campaigns harmful practices affecting the development of local markets. Promote and sup-
of homes and livelihoods, considering productive, cultural, and gender aspects.
port citizen initiatives for recovery, and to systematize good practices. • Use knowledge, innovation and education to build a culture of safety • Promote public policies that plan, organize and create spaces for the productive and reproductive development of grassroots women. • Tax incentives to encourage economic activity with greater social security that include women with disabilities, grassroots women and
and resilience at all levels, through a participatory planning and government action. • Reduce damage to vital infrastructure and basic services, health and educational facilities, developing structural resilience.
older persons. • Generate processes of autonomy, self-management, and community • Create national citizenship observatories to monitor and disseminate
networks, groups with social cohesion.
the variations in the minimum wage in countries. • Create mechanisms for direct public participation in urban planning, • Promote and strengthen social solidarity economy as a central compo-
land use and public budget spending, with citizen comptrollership.
nent of local economic development that contributes to the economic empowerment of women. This model can support women, especially
• Prevent the operation of hotels that do not have solved the discharge
grassroots in achieving economic autonomy. Through this model people
of sewage into clean drainage systems. Close hotels discharging sew-
with disabilities and older persons can have access to productive inclu-
age into rivers and beaches. Include in building permits and opening of
sion too.
hotels compulsory mechanisms of sewage treatment.
• Accelerate the recognition by local policy makers about the existence of a growing number of informal workers for which historically there have been no instruments of access to housing finance that is suitable to their needs and income.
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16. Urban Ecosystem and Resource Management • Basic environmental education to children.
• Increase the number of people able to provide training on Integral Disaster Risk Management and Civil Protection. Involve women as well as men.
• Break the neighborhood isolation. Undertake the responsibility for the care of our city: Increase security and promote neighborhood integration. • Train citizens to recycle and not to pollute in order to mitigate climate change
• Create mechanisms for social inclusion and direct citizen participation in all phases of prevention, mitigation and response to disasters. • Prioritize the assessment of risk perception in primary schools, secondary, upper secondary levels, and higher, as well as in hospitals and in population in areas at risk.
• Implement the legal framework guaranteeing the protection of the environment
• Implement early warning systems and community warnings for all natural and anthropogenic phenomena that occur locally and in the region.
• Increase awareness of local environmental reality. • Do not allow changes in land use without rigorous risk assessments • Citizen’s empowerment and compliance with the obligation of existing legal instruments. • Transparency and accountability as a mechanism to fight corruption.
and geotechnical studies to determine the ability of soil to buildings. Prevent new settlements in areas at risk. • Development of Community Risk Atlas, detecting threats, multifactorial dangers, and vulnerabilities per district, neighborhood, and housing
• Creativity to develop new models of urban life (regionalization of socioecosystem, regionalized economic basin, different density, etc.).
17. Cities and Climate Change and Disaster Risk • To empower women and men in their communities for the exercise of informed and engaged citizenry, and on issues of equality and non-violence. In crisis situation this is exacerbated. • Provide permanent specialized training to public servants, community brigades, volunteers, and people in neighborhoods, housing units, and interested population in general on the regulations and methodologies of Integral Disaster Risk Management and Civil Protection.
unit. Integrate results and Community proposals addressing Human Rights and Gender Equality in Risk Atlas.
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Policy Unit 9: Urban Service and Technology
Water management • Conduct studies and plan in a comprehensive manner the intake of, reserve and distribution of water for all sectors of the city.
18. Urban Infrastructure and Basic Services, including energy • To conduct a comprehensive plan to modernize public transport in the
• Undertake diagnostics and proposals for supply and use of water with the participation of experts and civil society organizations.
cities that meets the needs and possibilities of access of all inhabitants of the neighborhoods with support from business organizations,
• Install water treatment plants and ensure service to all neighborhoods
the participation of civil society and citizens’ observatories. • Ensure the quality of water infrastructure. • To promote social infrastructure and public facilities and services particularly and as a priority in low‐income neighborhoods, the most vulnerable social groups, and peripheral neighborhoods of the city. • To establish a training system for neighborhood committees so they in turn can replicate it to the citizenship, in which they learn among other
• Address as a priority the causes of water wastage in urban infrastructure. • Build and readjust collection system and rainwater cisterns to water gardens or nurseries.
things: to conserve water, to generate and optimize power, to recycle garbage, to improve the local coexistence, monitoring and self-care,
• Build and readjust sewerage system for the descent of rainwater.
etc.
Waste management • To implement public policies in favor of quality basic services.
• Improve the waste collection service. Increase of routes of garbage collection trucks in the neighborhoods.
• Promote equal access to good quality social services including health, education, culture and leisure, from a gender perspective. • To provide with citizen service and social work modules in the neigh-
• Certify landfills. • Modernize the management of urban waste.
borhoods and cities with a certain level of population. • Install public and personal garbage recycling systems to reduce pollu• To train officials for proper enforcement.
tion. • Conduct awareness campaigns for a more rational and sustainable management of household waste. • Develop local programs to recycle household waste.
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Energy consumption
19. Transports and Mobility
• Installation of solar panels for electricity production in public places.
• To ensure adequate units, with stirrups to climb, and that provide preferential places for pregnant women, girls / boys and older persons.
• Promote and support alternative energy sources for household use. • To make alliances with NGOs and neighborhood groups so they can • Conduct comprehensive studies and develop proposals that meet the needs and possibilities of the inhabitants of the city to upgrade the
contribute to the improvement of roads, educating for citizenship, contributing to support in the school exits, etc.
electrical service by incorporating new technologies, new sources of inexpensive energy production. All this with the collaboration of experts and civil society organizations. • Awareness campaigns on the rational use of electricity services.
• To regulate the stopping points of modes of transports to create a new culture in the use of transportation. • To apply traffic regulations rigorously and for all, enforcing the law and improving the conditions for movement.
Construction impact • To address the needs of paving, maintenance and urban infrastructure on the road favoring the interests and needs of the people, and not the
• To conduct studies for road reengineering designed taking into account travel time.
interests of contractors and construction companies. • To plan and adapt the public transport to avoid overloading of passen• Resurfacing bumps with high duration material, rather than filling them
gers.
with soil and cause more pollution. • To ensure sufficient transport units at peak hours. • Maintenance of existing traffic lights, and installation of adequate lighting at key points such as in pedestrian bridges. • Improve and increase surveillance in public roads.
• To regulate and monitor accurately routes and schedules. • To include more and better urban transport routes in optimal conditions for all sectors.
Safety • Promote the creation of neighborhood committees with public resourc-
• To make a constant and sufficient surveillance.
es to support the implementation of strategic monitoring actions. • Install security cameras.
Educational Services • Conduct studies in the neighborhoods to meet the needs of schools in the different educational levels.
Health Services • Care for people and the most vulnerable groups in the provision of health services. • Provide necessary medical services for all citizens, particularly the most vulnerable neighborhoods.
• To ensure exclusive service units for women, children, and older persons to ensure their integrity.
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20. Smart Cities • Provide access to and use of ICTs together with the relevant legislation,
• Incorporate green buildings, a number of technologies aimed at maximizing energy resources and their self-sustainability.
seeking to reduce the gap in the general population in the daily use of ICT.
• Implement LEED certification mandatory for transnational franchises established in the country.
• Negotiate with government agencies, creating a structure that allows the public access to ICT by different means, such as free wireless net-
• Create platforms of information technology and communication acces-
work (at least in places or public spaces such as schools, parks, plazas,
sible and friendly to empower grassroots women with the tools neces-
centers government and more)
sary for proper development in smart cities.
• Create physical Internet access points, hotspots, data retrieval terminals in public places and spaces.
• Gradually implement educational plans where students are taught about the smart city infrastructure, its components, how they interact and collaborate from individual actions to generate a culture Smart
• Reduce energy consumption under smart city approach; cities recorded
City.
savings of up to 30%. • Implement ICT to ensure security through the installation of a network • Achieve reductions in water loss up to 20%.
of security cameras in areas or key points of the city.
• Install Security Cameras CCTV to reduce street crime by 30%.
21. Informal Settlements
• Reduce the time of transfer and traffic delays up to 20%.
• To rethink city planning aimed at promoting social development, creating decent living conditions.
• Develop knowledge and culture on the efficient use of ICT. • Detect and rehabilitate the neuralgic points of the city to solve its core • Promote the cohesion of all members of the population, as well as the
problems.
inclusion of a gender perspective generating and implementing training for grassroots women so that they themselves can teach others to use ICT and their benefits n the context of smart cities. • Promote the use and implementation of ICT in government administrative platform. • Promote planning to implement the efficient use of ICT for development
• Do research on the dimension, characteristics, and needs of irregular settlements. • Monitor and evaluate the impact of social programs implemented in irregular settlements. • Increase surveillance in these areas.
of cities. • Ensure provision of services, including lighting, accessibility and transport to enhance security.
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Policy Unit 10: Housing Policies
Policy Unit 11: New Policy Unit
22. Housing
23. Older persons
• To enshrine the right to adequate housing with access to basic services
• Address holistically the conditions and problems of the older persons
in policy and legislative frameworks.
so they can access their human rights. Public policies should respond to the multifactorial situations that affect the older persons, gender
• To establish standards for adequate housing through community driven
difference and other vulnerabilities. Policies addressed to prevent and
processes that ensure people’s dignity and access to basic services. To
care for the older persons and ensure the population that gradually
regulate those standards for adequate housing.
integrates this group are in better conditions. Policies should follow the route marked by the Inter-American Convention on the protection of
• To monitor and enforce the standards for adequate housing, and form
Human Rights of Older Persons.
groups of housing self-construction to expand the existing rooms. • Sign the Inter-American Convention on the protection of Human Rights • To promote investment in decent housing for the socially marginalized. • To provide credit in equal conditions for men and women with citizen participation.
of Older Persons. • Collect and carry out cost-benefit studies on the implementation of social policies for the older persons.
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• Develop an educational provision for older persons, according to their
• Professionalize the caregivers.
situation (right to education throughout life); conducive to integral development, which is key to access full development.
• Provide mental health services, from prevention and early intervention to provision of treatment and management of mental health problems.
• Establish protocols in infrastructure, equipment, transportation and utilities with older persons and gender perspective and monitor its
• Provide care for the older persons until the end of their lives.
implementation • Strengthen policies on prevention of chronic degenerative diseases. • Systematize, adapt and adopt best international practices. • Investigate and disseminate triggering factors for chronic degenerative • Transform discriminatory stereotypes in the curriculum of basic educa-
diseases caused by the environment, food and pressure of life in cities.
tion and strengthen the values of respect and recognition for the older persons.
• Develop participatory government and community programs for alternative income of the older persons, in which women and men develop
• Make visible the various forms of discrimination and violence. Campaigning in transportation and public space on the values of respect,
proposals that recognize their knowledge and that are suitable to their conditions.
recognition of the older persons. • Build community business centers that include the consideration of • Prioritize prevention and primary care services health policies for older persons • Public policy for the older persons must be comprehensive, promoting autonomy and development, based on human rights and gender per-
employment of older persons in decent income activities. Development of initiatives of social and solidarity economy. • Implement and enable rest areas, recreation and reading areas in existing public spaces for the older persons.
spective. • Promote universities for older persons that foster integral development • Establish self-help groups and other community-based services to
and diverse knowledge through different programs.
support informal caregivers. • Promote research, seminars and multidisciplinary studies in universities about the multifactorial aging situation.
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Speakers
Aragonés, Guadalupe Vázquez Corral, Yamile Villegas, Elizabeth Rojas Anchondo, Norma Alicia Flores Anaya, Ma. de Jesús López Ortiz, Tania Gabri-
This Campus had many speakers, all of them are in the Promoter Group.
ela Gámez García, Michelle Myriam Rappa Gaudiño y Centro de Atención a la Mujer Trabajadora de Chihuahua A.C., Martha T. González Rentería.
PROMOTOR GROUP
Cinthia Susana Corrales Rojas- Juan Antonio Villegas Vargas y Rosalba de Jesús Robles Venzor, Centro de Intervención en Crisis Alma Calma A.C.,
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO Bufete de Estudios Interdisciplinarios A. C., Mag-
Tertulianas Feministas Chihuahuenses- y Movimiento Igualitario A.C. Gru-
dalena García Hernández, Magdalena Huerta García, Francisco Herrera
po Promotor Delicias: Juan Alberto Galván, Kristian Durán, Miguel Ángel
Fernández, Centro de Investigaciones y estudios para el Desarrollo y la
Burrola, Manuel Leonardo Reza, María Concepción Luviano, Abner Arturo
Igualdad Social, Cecilia Castro, Cátedra UNESCO de Derechos Humanos,
Araujo, Candy Jazmín Alonso, Rodolfo Morales César, Eduardo Quezada,
Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma
María Eugenia Montes, Miriam Soto, Gilberto Feliciano Vitela, María de
de México, Gloria Ramírez, Tania de la Palma, Universidad Autónoma de
Lourdes González, Cynthia Lujan, Guadalupe Vianney Antillón.
Chapingo: Silvia Hernández, Mujeres Democracia y Ciudadanía A.C. Elsa María Arroyo, MARABUNTA y LA ROCA, Carmen Yinadith Pérez Trinidad,
COLIMA Ollin Espacio Feminista Colima AC, Guadalupe Quijano García,
Diego Romo Barrera, Adriana González Rodríguez, María de La Luz Herrera
Evangelina Aguirre Pérez.
Serrano, María del Rosario Ruiz Jaramillo. Instituto Nacional de Geriatría: Elizabeth Caro López, Canas Dignas: Adriana Luna Parra.
HIDALGO Universidad Politécnica Metropolitana de Hidalgo, Dulce Olivia Fosado Martínez, Mariana Durán Rocha, Fundación Plataformarte y Cultura
BAJA CALIFORNIA Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Leonor
de Hidalgo A.C.
Maldonado Meza, Emerson Augusto Lozada Delgado, Cintia Lozada Delgado. Comisión Ciudadana de Derechos Humanos del Noroeste, CCDH
ESTADO DE MÉXICO Universidad Autónoma de Chapingo: Jazmín
A.C., El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, INMUJER Tijuana, Restaurando
Zavala Rico, Silvia Hernández, Sindicato de Trabajadores Académicos de
Relaciones, A.C., El Globo, A.C., Fabiola Teresa Vargas Valencia, Antonieta
la Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Mtro. José Espino Espinoza y Mtro.
Robles Barja, Rosa María Quiñonez Soto, Cheryl Álvarez Torres, Raquel
Sócrates Silverio Galicia Fuentes, Mujeres Democracia y Ciudadanía A.C.
Machuca López.
Elsa María Arroyo, Universidad Privada del Estado de México, campus Tecámac y Ecatepec: Toyka Bashkoz.
BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, María Luisa Cabral, Mirna Fiol Higuera, OSC Centro Cultural Esperanza
QUINTANA ROO Observatorio para la Gobernanza la Cooperación y el
Rodríguez, A.C., Alma Margarita Oceguera Rodríguez.
Desarrollo, A. C., Celina Izquierdo Sánchez, Mónica Franco, Mariana Belló, Observatorio Urbano Local, Redes Turismo, SUSIQROO, AC, Ciudadan@s
CHIHUAHUA Patricia López Mingura, Guadalupe Vázquez Corral, Rosa
por la transparencia, Observatorio de Violencia Social y de Género, Taller
María Sáenz Herrera, Mercedes Fernández González, Verónica Terrazas
Fulano, Huellas de Pan.
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TAMAULIPAS Fundación Trina AC., Martha Araceli Torres Rodríguez, Así
Soporte
Transformamos, Carlos De Alejandro Acevedo, Karina De Alejandro Leal, Luz María Patraca Santoyo, Silvia Patricia Olvera de la Fuente, Asociación
MORELOS Emma González Gutiérrez/ Discapacidad y tercera edad.
de Mujeres Profesionistas de Tamaulipas, AMPROTAC Lilia Macarena Martínez Salomón, Ma. Guadalupe Hernández Palacios, Olga Amparo
CHIAPAS, María Antonieta Valera de la Torre.
Dávila, Yolanda Ley Ochoa, Alma Angélica Hinojosa Garza, Dulce Martínez Salomón, Celia E Velarde Gaytán, Laura Guillermina Castro Barrón, Alma
COMUNICADORAS CIMAC, AC, Lucia Lagunes Huerta.
Hiliana Caamal Gutiérrez, Odilia Lam Moran, Walkyria Catalina Saen Rábago, Carmen Aida Luna Zaleta, Norma Elisa Balderas Alanís, Ernestina
PERÚ, Federación de Mujeres Municipalistas de América Latina y el
Nava Reyes, Felipa Villaseñor Juárez, Elsa García Molina, Centro de
Caribe, FEMUM ALC, Olenka Ochoa Berreteaga, Escuela Mayor de Gestión
Información para la Igualdad en Tamaulipas Rosa Ma. Rodríguez Quintanil-
Municipal, Michael Azcueta, Mesa de la Mujer del Distrito Los Olivos-Li-
la, Ciudadanos, Norma Lilia Xavier Quintana, Aldo Cedillo, José de Jesús
ma, Complejo Educativo Tony Gubbels-Distrito de Chincha Baja-Ica,
Guzmán Morales, Raúl Gabino Quilantan Hernández, Empresario Juan
Amigos de Siempre-Rainvow of Hope for Children-Distrito de Chincha
Antonio Valles Ornelas, Facultad de Arquitectura UAT, Evangelina Alejan-
Baja-Ica, Fundación MUSEO ANDRÉS DEL CASTILLO-Lima, CESAL – Ofici-
dra Montalvo Rivero, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, UAT, Ernestina
na en Perú.
Patricia Castillo Limón, Silvia Montalvo Tello, Giovanna Castañeda Hernández, Jazmín Maraboto, Valores UAT Josefina Guzmán Acuña, Waterfalls Internacional Ministries Lily Rogers.
List of all countries present
ZACATECAS Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Martha Guerrero, Margarita González Hernández, Rosa María García Ortiz, Observatorio
1. Mexico
Ciudadano de Agendas de Género AC. Irma Serrano Esparza, Irma Rosa
2. Peru
Hernández Ríos, Cecilia Zavala Hernández, Mariana Castañeda Trejo, Griselda Carrillo Ávila e Isabel Jiménez Maldonado.
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List of organizations present Ciudad de México
Tamaulipas
1. Bufete de Estudios Interdisciplinarios A.C.
27. Fundación Trina AC.
2. Canas Dignas
28. Así Transformamos.
3. Centro de Investigaciones y estudios para el Desarrollo y la Igualdad
29. Asociación de Mujeres Profesionistas de Tamaulipas, AMPROTAC.
Social 4. Colectivo Marabunta – La Roca, espacio libre independiente. 5. CIMAC, AC 6. ¿Y las mujeres qué?
30. Centro de Información para la Igualdad en Tamaulipas. 31. Waterfalls Internacional Ministries. Zacatecas 32. Observatorio Ciudadano de Agendas de Género AC.
Baja California 7. Avanza A.C. 9. Restaurando Relaciones AC
Universities and Institutions
10. Comisión Ciudadana de Derechos Humanos del Noroeste, AC
Ciudad de México
8. Tierra Colectiva: Ciudadanía, Género y Medio Ambiente, A.C
Baja California Sur 11. OSC Centro Cultural Esperanza Rodríguez, A.C. Chihuahua 12. Centro de Atención a la Mujer Trabajadora de Chihuahua A.C. 13. Centro de Intervención en Crisis Alma Calma A.C. 14. Tertulianas Feministas Chihuahuenses. 15. Movimiento Igualitario A.C. Colima 16. Ollin Espacio Feminista Colima A.C. Hidalgo 17. Fundación Plataformarte y Cultura de Hidalgo A.C. Estado de México 18. Mujeres Democracia y Ciudadanía A.C. Quintana Roo 19. Observatorio para la Gobernanza la Cooperación y el Desarrollo, A. C. 20. Observatorio Urbano Local 21. Redes Turismo. 22. SUSIQROO, AC, 23. Ciudadan@s por la transparencia. 24. Observatorio de Violencia Social y de Género. 25. Taller Fulano. 26. Huellas de Pan A.C.
1. Cátedra UNESCO de Derechos Humanos, FCPyS, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM. 2. Instituto Nacional de Geriatría Baja California 3. Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. 4. El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, El Colef. Baja California Sur 5. Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur. Hidalgo 6. Universidad Politécnica Metropolitana de Hidalgo. Estado de México 7. Universidad Autónoma de Chapingo. 8. Universidad Privada del Estado de México, campus Tecámac y Ecatepec. Quintana Roo 9. Universidad Cooperativa de Innovación Comunitaria, S. R. L. Tamaulipas 10. Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas Zacatecas
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