Building Safe and Inclusive Cities For Women: A Practical Guide

ABOUT THIS GUIDE This guide is a broad introduction to the process of creating safe cities for women and girls. It introduces the key concepts of safe cities work and offers practical tools for how to begin building a safer, more inclusive city. The information in this guide combines knowledge from scholarly research with insights generated from on-the-ground work around the world, with particular focus on Jagori’s work in India. We at Jagori have learned in six years of work on this issue, that it is possible to make cities safer for women and girls. We hope that this guide will be useful in your work in order to create a safer city and community. WHO IS THIS GUIDE FOR? This guide is for individuals and organizations who want to begin working to build safer cities for women and girls. This guide addresses many policy- level considerations, in addition to offering suggestions on the logistics and processes important to safe cities work. People and groups who may find this guide useful include NGOs, professionals, local government, donor agencies and members of civil society groups. HOW DO I USE THIS GUIDE? This guide is both an introduction to safe cities work, and a resource to refer to throughout the safe cities process. We recommend reading it once in its entirety to familiarize yourself with all aspects of safe cities work. After that, you can return to the guide as needed for information on specific issues, and to review the guiding policies and principles of safe cities work. At the end of the guide, there is a list of further resources.