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5.5. External References - Her City Toolbox

Version 4.1 by Seda Yontem on 2022/01/24 11:59

DivAirCity D2.1 contribution from Her City 

Her City1 is a joint urban development initiative by UN-Habitat (the United Nations Human Settlements Programme) and the independent think tank Global Utmaning (Global Challenge). Financed by the Swedish Innovation Agency (Vinnova) with contributions from Block by Block Foundation, White Architects, Swedish Union of Tenants and MethodKit, the toolbox has been developed in collaboration with multi-stakeholders from public sector, private sector, research, civil society and citizens. 

Her City project has a vision of involving girls in urban development to make the city better for everyone, in order to build more inclusive, equal and sustainable cities and communities through involvement of citizens that are rarely heard.  

Her City project provides the toolbox for participants to follow the process.  It aims to guide urban actors to implement projects through a step-by-step methodology, and provide an open and digitally accessible platform for all. The toolbox follows 9 flexible building blocks:  

  • BLOCK 1: Stakeholder Engagement 
  • BLOCK 2: City Wide Assessment 
  • BLOCK 3: Site Specific Assessment 
  • BLOCK 4: Analysing Challenges 
  • BLOCK 5: Designing Ideas 
  • BLOCK 6: Recommendations for Action 
  • BLOCK 7: Implementation Plans 
  • BLOCK 8: Sharing Results   
  • BLOCK 9: Implementation and Follow-up    

Through this process, the Her City project generates data about the participants and site. From BLOCK 1, the data about the diversity of stakeholders, and from BLOCK 2 and 3, the data about city and site is collected. The data collection methods are participants survey although the indicators are differed according to the BLOCKS. The indicators gathered through participatory process are transferrable to the Work Package 2 framework of the DivAirCity project.  Particularly those indicators can contribute to fill the data gap which is not available in the existing Census through the co-creation process which will be delivered through Work Package 3 and 4.