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10/12/22 07:29 AM IST

World Bank’s toolkit aims to make transport, public spaces more gender inclusive

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  • The World Bank has launched a ‘toolkit on enabling gender-responsive urban mobility and public spaces in India’, with the aim of guiding Indian cities on how to design public transport that is more inclusive of women’s travelling requirements
Features of Toolkit
  • The Gender Toolkit is a two-volume guide that proposes a 4-pillar implementation framework for urban bodies to design a gender-responsive urban mobility and public spaces programme.
  • The first pillar focuses on the assessment of ground situation, including the understanding of gender differences in mobility patterns, safety concerns, and gaps in policies and infrastructure.
  • The second pillar recommends integrating gender as a lens while planning and promoting gender inclusivity among policymakers and institutions. It calls for including gender-related perspectives in the new and existing transport policies and plans.
  • The third pillar focuses on awareness creation and capacity building and the fourth pillar emphasises strengthening the infrastructure in a way that it is gender inclusive.
  • It also asks for enhancing women’s representation in decision-making in key institutions such as urban local bodies and public transport authorities.
Significance of Toolkit
  • The aim of the World Bank’s toolkit is to make urban mobility and design gender inclusive.
  • Its purpose is to guide Indian cities to design public transport and urban spaces that can support women’s traveling requirements.
  • Traditionally, public transport services are not designed while keeping in mind the safety of women and their specific travel requirements
  • This significantly limits women’s access to work, education, and life choices. Currently, India has among the lowest female labour force participation rates in the world at 22.8 per cent in 2019-20.
  • Women are amongst the biggest users of public transport across Indian cities. Eighty-four per cent of their trips were estimated to be by public transport, according to the World Bank report.
Source- The Print

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