Safe and Inclusive Cities for Girls
Asia Africa Smart City Summit
Le Quynh Lan – Plan International
About Plan
International
Adolescent Girl
view on Safe
cities
Because I am A Girl
Urban Program
Recommendation
Overview of the presentation
About Plan International
• Founded 75 years ago, Plan is one of
the oldest and largest children’s
development organisations in the
world.
• Plan works in 50 developing
countries across Africa, Asia and the
Americas to promote child rights and
lift millions of children out of poverty.
• In 2014, Plan worked with 81.5
million children in 86,676
communities.
Urbanization and Adolescent Girls
• For the first time in history, there are more people living
in cities than in rural areas.
• By 2030, approximately 1.5 billion girls will live in
urban areas.
• Girls in cities contend with the duality of increased risks
and increased opportunities.
• There is a gap in research and programming pertaining
to adolescent girls’ safety and urban spaces.
Plan’s 8-Point Call to Action on Girls’ Rights in the City
All girls have the right to:
1. Access safe education in the city
2. Be free from violence in the city
3. Secure and decent housing
4. Move safely in the city
5. Affordable and accessible services in the city
6. Age-appropriate and decent work in a
healthy urban environment
7. Safe spaces in the city
8. Participate in making cities safer, more
inclusive and more accessible
BIAAG Urban Programme
• The BIAAG Urban Programme is a joint programme developed in
partnership between Plan International, Women in Cities
International (WICI), and UN-HABITAT.
• BIAAG Urban Programme aims is to build safe, accountable, and
inclusive cities with and for girls in all their diversity.
• The expected outcomes of the BIAAG Urban Programme include:
• Increased girls’ safety and access to public spaces
• Increased girls’ autonomous mobility in the city
• Increased girls’ active and meaningful participation in urban
development and governance
Where are we working?
CAIRO
DELHI
LIMA
HANOI
KAMPALA
Adolescent Girls’ view on their city
English 1.mp4
Approaches to Guide the BIAAG Urban Programme
• Engage and support the capacity development of civil society and local authorities
• Undertake policy-based advocacy on girls’ safety in cities.
• Promote critical dialogue between adolescent girls, urban communities and
authorities.
• Work in partnership with key stakeholders on issues of girls.
• Strengthen girls’ capacity to claim their rights and hold duty bearers accountable
for girls’ safety and inclusion in cities.
• Actively engage boys and men as champions of change on girls’ safety in cities.
• Build evidence-based programme models aligned with global guidelines on safe
and child-friendly cities, gender equality, and participatory programming.
• Integrate a gender equality approach
• Intentionally engage and respond to a diversity of girls in the city and focus on the
most marginalised.
Recommendations
•Smart cities should be a safe and
inclusive cities where the unique needs
and rights violations of adolescent girls in
cities be addressed
•Smart health should enable Adolescent
and Youth access to the availability of
information, services for their well being
•Adolescent girls be included in shaping
Smart cities agendas and empowering
girls to speak out their unique needs to
improve the cities
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THANK YOU !
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