Girls & boys, women & men, designing and implementing policies for safe, accountable, inclusive, resilient and sustainable public spaces.The New Urban agenda and the SDGs provide an ambitious framework to deal with the challenges of urbanisation in the world. In particular, ensuring universal access to green and public space.
To build these inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities it is key to involve the most vulnerable groups in the population in the design of the urban public policies that have a direct impact on them. Girls and young women are both among the vulnerable and excluded population, and at the same time a driver for development of cities and local communities.The session seeks to identify the elements of public policy that would be needed to ensure that both girls and boys, women and men of all ages can access and enjoy public space for social, economic or recreational uses.
