Plan India Safer Cities

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Plan India Safer Cities

• 80,000 households in Mangolpuri, Madanpur Khadar
  and Gautampuri in Delhi are witnesses to efforts
  to make the city safe for young women and give
  wings to their ambition. Young women here are
  building promising futures, reclaiming public
  spaces for themselves and shattering boundaries
  that routinely make their lives safer. Here,
  public school teachers advocate girls safety and
  sanitation needs so that they can continue higher
  education. In these communities, girls aspire to
  a career in sports and thrive through technical
  as well as vocational training. All this is the
  result of Plan Indias long-term gender
  transformation programme Safer Cities which
  focuses on the gap in programming and research
  pertaining to how adolescent girls experience
  public spaces differently than men.
• Safer Cities has put adolescent girls at the
  centre and challenges the perception of safety
  and fear of violence that define girls
  negotiation. It supports girls and boys in
  becoming active citizens by building capacities
  and creating opportunities for participation in
  city life. The programme is also being
  implemented in two wards of Jaipur.

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• Safer Cities Key Outcomes
• Increased adolescent girls safety and access to
  public spaces
• Increased girls active and meaningful
  participation in urban development and governance
• Increased autonomous mobility in the city for
  adolescent girls
• While Safer Cities works to empower girls, it
  also engages boys and men in the communities as
  allies. Strengthening local youth clubs is
  pivotal in effectively gathering evidence and
  data for Plans advocacy work. Programme
  activities help the children and youth visualise
  alternatives where safe spaces exist for them to
  counter the ever-present fear of violence. The
  integrated community-based approach uses
  innovative engagement modalities and gender
  transformative approaches. It also employs unique
  feedback and participatory research tools such as
  training curriculums, community scorecards and
  Information Education Communication (IEC)
  materials to involve parents and community
  leaders. Intergenerational dialogues help elders
  acknowledge the disparities and challenge the
  conventional understanding of safety. Dialogues
  were initiated within the community for
  addressing gender power relations and to
  challenge stereotypical social norms that
  perpetuate insecurity and exclusion of girls in
  cities.

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• Making Safer Cities community-led puts the onus
  of assessing public spaces from a gender lens and
  ensuring the safety of girls back on the
  neighbourhood. Plan India forged strategic
  partnerships with the Department of Women and
  Child Development, Delhi Police, transport
  service providers, Delhi Commission for
  Protection of Child Rights and the National
  Institute of Urban Affairs. Through Plans
  advocacy, public transport in Delhi was studied
  to understand the needs of adolescent girls and
  to recommend specific changes. A consultation was
  also held on public budgets from the lens of
  women and girls and the resultant policy brief
  Gender and Governance at the Grassroots A Study
  of South Delhi Municipal Corporations 2018
  Budgets was published. Safer Cities takes pride
  in girl-led negotiations with local
  representatives for gender-sensitive budgeting
  for the programme area.
• Safer Cities represents a collaboration between
  Plan International, Women in Cities International
  and UN-HABITAT, thus benefitting from the
  distinct and impressive track record each
  organisation boasts from previous work done to
  address violence against women and girls.

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