Innovative Financing for Gender-Inclusive Public Spaces

Oct 4, 2023 | Cities Alliance: Cities without Slums
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This year, cities worldwide sweltered through the hottest summer on record, with deadly heat waves, flooding, and wildfires. With more extreme climate events to come, the burden on cities will only become greater as they seek to build resilience and address central challenges such as poverty, informality, severe resource constraints, and gender inequality.

On 12 September, Cities Alliance hosted a discussion on how the development community and city stakeholders can support cities in becoming resilient, sustainable and inclusive, with a focus on building and funding gender-friendly infrastructures.

“Cities are often overlooked in national studies and international cooperation programmes. They face enormous constraints in terms of financing, policy and capacity when they have to add and implement solutions to crises,” said Thuli Madonsela, Chair of the Cities Alliance Management Board.