- The “Toolkit on Enabling Gender Responsive Urban Mobility and Public Spaces in India” was launched at a session organized by the World Bank and the Chennai Urban Metropolitan Transport Authority.
- This toolkit has practical tools that can help policymakers and private or community-based organizations ensure safe and inclusive public spaces and public transport for women in India.
- The Gender Toolkit is a two-volume guide that proposes a 4-pillar implementation framework for urban bodies to design a gender-responsive urban mobility and public spaces programme.
- The first pillar focuses on the assessment of ground situation, including the understanding of gender differences in mobility patterns, safety concerns, and gaps in policies and infrastructure.
- The second pillar recommends integrating gender as a lens while planning and promoting gender inclusivity among policymakers and institutions.
- It calls for including gender-related perspectives in the new and existing transport policies and plans.
- The third pillar focuses on awareness creation and capacity building and the fourth pillar emphasises strengthening the infrastructure in a way that it is gender inclusive.
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