Combining our passion for #cities & #storytelling to help organisations working in urban development craft the right messages and maximize their reach & impact.
Ahmadabad City, India
Joined April 2019
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Always humbling and inspiring to listen to citizens and elected representatives working at the #grassroots to solve pressing challenges facing our cities. Thank you @mahilahsg for this opportunity to moderate this panel with women community leaders and councilors. #Governance.
๐ดLIVE NOW...Post lunch season...
Workshop on "Poor Women Participate in Urban Governance and Planning" On 13 & 14 March in Ahmedabad.
Group activity and Feedback on Governance Models
"Watch LIVE on MHT's Facebook"
fb.watch/jeFzcpCi0u/
#urbanplanning #WomenEmpowerment
Popular perception often shapes how we engage with urban policy and view actors involved in urban development. In this video, @mnolangray explores the trope of โthe dastardly developer - forever ruining cities and hiking rentsโ
youtu.be/dIjskDtki8A
#popculture #urbanism
On this #WorldDayforSafetyandHealthatWork sharing this set of resources we produced with @WIEGOGLOBAL and @mahilahsg documenting strategies to make home based work environments safer, healthier and more productive.
#homebasedworkers #knowledgeresource
wiego.org/home-workplace
City Collab retweeted
We collaborated with @WIEGOGLOBAL, @mahilahsg to develop knowledge tools to advance dialog on homes as workplaces improving habitats in urban poor settlements. Thanks @MartyChen16 for the opportunity to present insights from this work at @HarvardGSD.
wiego.org/home-workplace โ at Ahmadabad City, India
1/3 of all women workers in India are home-based.
Professor Martha Chen of @WIEGOGLOBAL introduces @vani_h of @City_Collab & @Bijalb_15 of @mahilahsg as they present at @HarvardGSD on their work to gain recognition of the home as workplace, as it is for so many women.
City Collab retweeted
1/3 of all women workers in India are home-based.
Professor Martha Chen of @WIEGOGLOBAL introduces @vani_h of @City_Collab & @Bijalb_15 of @mahilahsg as they present at @HarvardGSD on their work to gain recognition of the home as workplace, as it is for so many women.
City Collab retweeted
Home-based workers need:
- Access to water ๐ง & sanitation & electricity๐ก
- Safe homes ๐
- Property rights ๐ช
On this #HomeBasedWorkersDay, donโt miss our thematic briefs๐ developed with @mahilahsg & @City_Collab about the challenges they face: wiego.org/home-workplace
City Collab retweeted
World Poverty Day - The COVID-19 pandemic recession pushed millions more people into poverty. The pandemic recession also eroded the livelihoods of the majority of the 2 billion informal workers. Supporting the recovery of informal workers is a key pathway to reducing poverty
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The poor quality of habitat๐ has a direct bearing on the productivity of home-based workers as well as their health & well-being.
Donโt miss our thematic briefs๐ developed with @mahilahsg & @City_Collab about the challenges they face: wiego.org/home-workplace
City Collab retweeted
The documentation employs a three-pronged strategic framework:
1) Improving the physical environment
2)Promoting energy efficiency & climate resilience
3)Incorporating the needs of the #homebasedworkers in city plans and policies
@mahilahsg @WIEGOGLOBAL @HomeNetInt @City_Collab
To support organizations of #homebasedworkers,in interventions related to home-as-workplace issues & to facilitate engagement with architects/urban designers/planners @WIEGOGLOBAL @HomeNetInt alongwith @City_Collab have prepared thematic briefs: wiego.org/home-workplace
We partner with diverse organisations in urban built environment sector and help them advance knowledge, engagement and action towards improving quality of life in #Indiancities. Stay tuned as we share insights from our work as part of the #urbanoctober campaign. #SDG11 @vani_h
Poor quality of habitat has a direct bearing on the productivity, health and well-being of #homebasedworkers. We collaborated with @WIEGOGLOBAL to capture insights from @mahilahsg's work in improving quality of habitats in poor settlements.
#UrbanOctober
wiego.org/home-workplace
City Collab retweeted
Did you know that home-based workers spend most of their incomes๐ธ on energy for lighting, cooling, heating, & powering home-based livelihoods?
Read our thematic briefs๐ developed with @mahilahsg & @City_Collab: wiego.org/home-workplace
And follow @HomeNetInt๐ #WorldHabitatDay
City Collab retweeted
Super excited to finally share this updated analysis on the countries most responsible for climate change, now including all sources of CO2:
US 509GtCO2
CN 284
RU 172
BR 113
ID 103
DE 88
IN 86
UK 74
JP 68
CA 65
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carbonbrief.org/analysis-whiโฆ
We are so proud to partner with @mahilahsg and @WIEGOGLOBAL to bring out insights on โMaking Home based environments safer, healthier and more productiveโ and help them advance advocacy and action around issues of #homebasedworkers.
#WorldHabitatDay
Home-based workers need:
- Access to water ๐ง & sanitation & electricity๐ก
- Safe homes ๐
- Property rights ๐ช
- To be included in the city plans ๐
This #WorldHabitatDay, learn about home-based workersโ demands ๐ช bit.ly/home-based-workers
@mahilahsg @HomeNetInt @City_Collab
City Collab retweeted
.@Bijalb_15 elaborates on how infrastructure and access to services affects physical and financial health of urban poor, perpetuating womenโs unpaid labour
Do check this thread & entire piece by @aditimurti for @citizenmatters
@WIEGOGLOBAL @hnsa_2016 @City_Collab
@JanhaviDave
#๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐ง๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง! ๐๐ญ ๐ซ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐ก๐ข๐ ๐ก ๐จ๐ซ๐๐๐ซ #๐๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฌ.
#synthesis #buildingarguments
City Collab retweeted
Of course, all else is never equal! This the most compelling counterargument: that there are inevitable tradeoffs between drivability, walkability, and other aspects of livability. They're hard tradeoffs.
City Collab retweeted
So, let me clarify and correct this tweet.
1. Cities should be designed taking into account the immense value of cars, but not โdesigned for carsโ or โaround carsโ, if that is taken to mean excluding other things we want to optimize forโฆ
teapaw.org/jasoncrawford/status/1โฆ
City Collab retweeted
Congratulations @MuniRosario for winning the grand prize!
And Congratulations, @LDN_environment @DistritoTec @Kounkuey for the incredible work you do!
#PrizeforCities #UrbanChangeMakers
A huge, heartfelt congratulations to ALL the #PrizeforCities projects - inspirational to so many around the world who believe in the power of communities & cities to build a better, more sustainable, equitable future ๐
Thank you, urban change-makers! prizeforcities.org/
City Collab retweeted
Congratulations to the grand prize winner of the 2020-21 #PrizeforCities: Sustainable Food Production for a Resilient #Rosario! ๐๐
@MuniRosarioโs urban agriculture program has increased #FoodSecurity for residents & climate #resilience in tandem wri.org/news/release-prize-cโฆ
