Navigating Gender in African Cities

For many years now, UN-Habitat has been supporting major African cities with its Water for African Cities Programmes I and II. The Gender and Water Alliance was brought into the Programme to facilitate the mainstreaming of gender in 17 cities. GWA facilitators in each of these cities supported the organization of stakeholder platforms who together with utilities, civil society organizations, government departments and residents, developed comprehensive city Rapid Gender Assessment Reports. This process led to the development of work plans for most of the cities, which have the scope for actual change on the ground for many poor women, children and men.

This report is the outcome of the compilation of these 17 reports of the African cities that joined the "Water for African Cities Programme II".