Current
projects:
Creating Safer Communities for Marginalized Women and Everyone
Women's safety audits: what works and where?
International Base-Line Survey on Women's Safety
Recent projects
Project on Building Community-Based Partnerships
for Local Action on Women's Safety
Creating Safer Communities for Marginalized Women and Everyone
The project 'Creating Safer Communities for Marginalized Women and Everyone', funded by Status of Women Canada, aims to build partnerships between local women's groups working with marginalised women and their municipalities by implementing safety approaches to create safer communities for marginalized women. The main activities are to:
- Develop and provide training on the development and implementation of safety audits (four women's organisations located across Canada will participate and will each have a target group: Aboriginal women, elderly women, disabled women, immigrant women and visible minorities);
- Implement 3 safety audits in each of the four communities in Canada with the respective target group;
- Provide training on the implementation of safety approaches in partnership with municipalities and to improvements recommended by the women
- Draft and disseminate a report on findings of the project, specifically on the experience and adaptation of safety approaches to the four different groups of women
The local four women's groups involved are:
- Action Femmes handicapées (Montréal, Québec) - www.afhm.org
- Centre des aînés de Gatineau (Gatineau, Québec) - www.centredesainesdegatineau.qc.ca
- Women of the Dawn (Regina, Saskatchewan)
- Catholic Crosscultural Services (Peel, Ontario) - www.cathcrosscultural.org
Women's Safety Audits: What works and where?
Funded by UN-Habitat Safer Cities, Women in Cities International is undertaking a comparative evaluation study of women's safety audits. The aims of the research would be to:
1. Identify what works in what contexts, and what are the challenges internationally in the use of women's safety audits as a tool to prevent urban violence, and to empower and increase women's involvement in governance.
2. Identify what kinds of concrete outcomes result from the use of safety audits, both in terms of design changes and in strengthening women's involvement in local planning and governance.
If you have conducted a safety audit and would like to share your
experience, please contact us at info@femmesetvilles.org.
International Base-Line Survey on Women's Safety
Women in Cities International (WICI) would like to invite you to join in the development of a international database and directory on women's safety practices. WICI and UN-Habitat-LAC have been commissioned by the UN-Habitat Safer Cities Program and the Huairou Commission, to conduct a global assessment of the on-going work and successful practices organizations and institutions, both governmental and non-governmental, have developed. Preliminary results were shared at the International Conference on the State of Safety in World Cities 2007 in Monterrey, Mexico from October 1st – 5th, 2007. Click here to download the first draft>
Be part of this international directory; let us know about your projects! This will enable us to begin the process of network building and knowledge exchange in this important area for women.
Please fill the survey form and submit it to: survey@femmesetvilles.org
or
fax to 514-288-8763
Please pass this message to any other organizations or institutions you know that work on women's safety issues.
Download the form (word):
International
Base-Line Survey on Women's Safety WICI/UN-Habitat-LAC
Networking Events of Women in Cities International at the World Urban Forum 3, Vancouver, June, 19 to 23 2006
To assist in the facilitation of a gender-inclusive approach to the World Urban Forum, Women in Cities International in partnership with the Toronto Women's Call To Action, the National Network on Environments and Women's Health (NNEWH), the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), UN -HABITAT - Safer Cities, Action Canada for Population and Development (ACPD), AECI, UNIFEM, Red Mujer y Habitat Lac, the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime and the Huairou Commission, organised four linked thematic networking sessions building on current work around women's safety and gender mainstreaming. The themes of the four networking sessions were:
- SUSTAINABLE COMMUNIY-GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIPS ON GENDERED VIOLENCE PREVENTION
- DEVELOPPING A TEMPLATE: PARNERSHIP MODELS FOR BIG CITIES
- GENDER MAINSTREAMING AND LOCAL GOVERNANCE
- KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH AND SAFETY
Download the report to the National Crime Prevention Centre (Canada) on
lessons learned from the four networking sessions held during the World
Urban Forum in Vancouver, June 19 to 23 2006 : Moving from the Magins
- Actions for Safer Cities for the Full Diversity of Women's and Girls:
Lessons for Increasing the Visibility of Crime Prevention at the Local
Level (
PDF - 257Kb) >
Women In Cities International designed an on-line discussion forum in
order to assist in developing the thematic statements presented in Vancouver
at each of the 4 networking workshops. This forum was envisionned as the
beginning of a dialogue to share information, experiences, and to make
recommendations for future cooperation amongst participants after the
WUF III. To go to the forum website and consult the content of
these exchanges and the related documentation , click
here >
Building Community-Based Partnerships for Local Action on Women's Safety
Overview of the project:
The goal of this initiative is to increase the involvement of women's organizations (or community-based organizations) in the public policy process. This pilot project seeks to develop effective and sustainable partnerships between women’s organizations and municipalities (and they could include other public bodies such as youth organizations, schools, health clinics, etc.) to promote women’s safety in communities. It focuses on engaging women in decision-making processes at the municipal level for addressing the issue of violence against women.
Women in Cities International will develop a framework for creating sustainable partnerships between women's organizations, municipalities and other public bodies on women's safety. The framework would be tested and implemented in 6 pilot communities across Canada. The pilot phase of this project is to get concrete, constructive feedback from the field before widely distributing the framework for use across Canada and around the world. The project is funded by Status of Women Canada.
The 6 pilot communities will monitor and evaluate their experience in using the model-framework on a regular basis. Pilot sites are requested to send progress reports and write a follow-up report a year after implementation. Building on these individual evaluations, representatives from the 6pilot communities will attend a Workshop to be held in conjunction with the World Urban Forum III in Vancouver in June 2006. Pilot sites will be offered the unique opportunity to participate in an international information exchange. The Workshop will also allow the 6communities to exchange information and collectively evaluate the success of the process of building partnerships between local women’s groups and municipalities.
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