The Because I am a Girl (BIAAG) Urban Programme is a collaboration between Plan International, Women in Cities International (WICI), and UN-HABITAT to build safe, accountable, and inclusive cities with and for adolescent girls in all their diversity. It is being carried out in five capital cities around the world: Cairo, Egypt; Delhi, India; Hanoi, Vietnam; Kampala, Uganda; and Lima, Peru, and was established to put into action the recommendations from the report Because I am a Girl: State of the World’s Girls Urban and Digital Frontiers: Girls in a Changing Landscape (2010).
The BIAAG Urban Programme is a groundbreaking programme that seeks to close existing gaps between urban programming targeting ‘youth’ or ‘women’, by focusing on adolescent girls who are often the most vulnerable population in a city, yet are frequently excluded from urban processes. This programme provides girls with a space to discuss the issues they are facing and to offer their own innovative ideas for making improvements to their cities. With a rising level of gender based violence and urban insecurity around the world, the programme is being introduced at a crucial time.
Resource collections
- Accountability to affected populations (AAP)
- UN Habitat - Urban Response Collection
- Urban Response - Urban Crisis Preparedness and Risk Reduction
- Urban Response Collection - Community Engagement and Social Cohesion
- Urban Response Collection - Economic Recovery
- Urban Response Collection - Environment and Climate Change
- Urban Response Collection - Housing, Land and Property
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Crisis Response, Recovery and Reconstruction
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Resilience