Urban safety audit from a gender perspective in housing projects and their surroundings.
This audit is an urban assessment tool that analyzes people’s safety. It is based on a comprehensive analysis of the social, physical and functional aspects that determine the perception of safety in urban spaces, applying an intersectional gender perspective.
It involves joint work between technical staff, women’s organizations, other civil society organizations and other people who work in the territory and have knowledge of the reality of the context, in collaboration with the Audit facilitation and drafting team.
In this guide you can find a theoretical framework on safety and housing from a gender perspective, a set of participatory tools to analyze perceptions of safety in a given context, and a section with strategies and specific actions to be developed in the territory and improve safety perceptions. It includes the application of some proposed actions in the specific context of Cali, Colombia, where we developed the project that inspired this publication. The guide also includes specific experiences of housing and safety from a gender perspective that have been developed in different contexts at an international level.