One of the central elements of the research project is to develop common strategies to integrate and control Gender Mainstreaming in everyday procedures of the planning administration. Three objectives are part of the scientific counseling and accompaniment in the model cities Dessau and Pulheim:

The background is that even though there are ‘model projects’ on this issue, the consideration of the equality perspective as a routine task for the administration has not yet been systematically established.

The research project consists of a analysis of good examples. The presentation of the ‘good examples’ does not only include a descriptive review of the local projects in practice, but also focuses on their systematic evaluation in terms of success or hindrance factors. Second working scope is the analysis of the ‘Urban II’ EC-programme. As a third working scope a systematic control model is being developed and tested in the model cities. A transferable set of aims and indicators, which integrate the results of the individual research components, will be developed parallel to the work in the model cities.

In order to facilitate the difficult path of putting Gender mainstreaming into practice, the model project ‘Gender Mainstreaming in Urban Development’ was started. Based on some preparatory work, the new model project focuses on the actual local practice of a systematic implementation of Gender Mainstreaming as a cross-sectional task and a predominantly top-down controlled process in selected model cities.

Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik (DIFU)
S. Bock, tel. +49 30 390 01 189

01/01/2005

Bock, Stephanie; Bauer, Uta; Meyer, Ulrike; Wohltmann, Heike

research

Urban Policy > Social inclusion & integration > Equality

Gender Equality