 A gender responsive EPM process recognises and accommodates the differing access to, control and use of resources by women and men. It recognises that women and men experience and react to environmental issues differently. Integrating gender-responsiveness in addressing urban issues is an important element in efficient urban planning and management. SCP’s Gender responsive Environmental Planning and Management cuts across all stages and all levels of the EPM process. Experience shows that lack of gender awareness in urban planning and management can lead to poor decisions on strategies and inefficient implementation of action plans.
A gender responsive EPM process is characterised by: - Gender responsive stakeholder involvement;
- Gender disaggregated data;
- Facilitating gender responsive strategy formulation and decision making;
- Gender responsive action planning and resource mobilisation for effective implementation; and
- Institutionalising gender responsive EPM and measuring progress.
Gender Responsive EPM As part of the EPM process of the Sustainable Moshi Programme, the Municipality of Moshi in collaboration with local consultants prepared a gender profile. The study was an attempt to highlight the institutional aspects of gender equality at target group, organisational and project implementation levels. One of the key findings was that women made 35% of the decisions at household level, while 46% of the decisions were jointly made. Further, women’s participation in politics at the ward level was less than 20%. Besides improving information and expertise, the participatory process engaged in the preparation of the gender profile and ward level data-base provided opportunity to better identify key stakeholders and to make them aware of the objectives and contents of the respective programmes and what the EPM process entailed. |
Download: EPM Series, Volume 4: Integrating Gender Responsiveness in Environmental Planning and Management
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