Her City

11/06/2026

🏘️✨ At the World Urban Forum 13 in Baku, we were excited to deliver our new Housing Her City training with various participants from across sectors, cities, and organizations.

Together, we explored how housing, basic services, and urban development can become more inclusive across gender, age, and lived experiences. Participants engaged with key elements of the Housing Her City methodology:

🔹 Mainstreaming inclusion in housing and urban development processes
🔹 Meaningful stakeholder engagement that brings diverse voices into decision-making
🔹 Site-specific assessments that help identify local needs, opportunities, and challenges

These discussions strongly reflected the priorities of the World Urban Forum 13 and the Baku Call to Action, which highlight the urgent need to address housing and basic services through integrated, people-centred approaches.

Through the Her City methodology, we reflected on how participation and capacity building can help ensure that girls, young people, and marginalized communities should not only be considered in urban development but actively involved in shaping it.

💡 A city that works for girls and marginalized groups works better for everyone.

As the conversations from WUF13 continue, we hope to grow the Housing Her City community and inspire more practitioners, local governments, and organizations to use the Her City methodology to create cities that are inclusive, resilient, and responsive to the needs of all residents. .
Stay tuned for
🌍 The Housing Her City pilots in Indonesia, Ukraine, Turkey, France and Sweden!
✏️ The Her City capacity building catalogue with e-learnings, trainings for public sector and academic courses!
💡 And last but not least reinforced global, regional and national Her City peer-to-peer networks!


UN Habitat Dreamtown Dare.ngo Dare.ngo Holistic Actions Chaire ETI Gehl - Making Cities for People UN Habitat.ukraine ONU-Habitat Brasil ONU-Habitat México MMRDA

18/05/2026

🏙️ Meet the experts behind the Housing Her City Training
👩🏻‍🎓WUF Academy training
📅 Wednesday 20 May
⏰ 09:30–11:30
📍 MP08

At , join a diverse group of experts from the public sector, private sector, academia, and civil society as we explore how housing and urban development can become more inclusive, gender-responsive, and participatory.

Through global case studies and an interactive training session, our speakers will share practical insights, tools, and experiences from working with communities around the world.

What to expect:
🌐 Inspiring case studies from different urban contexts
👧 Gender-inclusive perspectives
🧩 Collaborative exercises
🛠️ Hands-on experience with Her City tools and participatory methods
🏘️ Perspectives from public, private & NGO sectors

Together, we’ll explore how co-creation and inclusive planning can help shape safer, more resilient, and sustainable housing for all.

👆🏽Link in bio.


.ngo .ukraine

17/05/2026

Main takeaway from first days of Assemblies at :

“The innovations and tools exist - but it eventually comes down to political will.”

Institutionalising partnerships - making sure that women are ALWAYS at the decision-making table - at ALL levels - will determine if we manage to house the world without leaving no one behind.



City

15/05/2026

🇺🇦 Shared City Foundation is proud to launch Includive Urban Recovery Ukraine, a 2 years project focused on strengthening inclusive, collaborative, and democratic local recovery across Ukraine.

The project will mainly support four Ukrainian civil society organisations:
🔹 NGO Renovation Map – Drohobych
🔹 NGO Adult Learning and Education Center – Mykolaiv
🔹 NGO Cedos – Cherkasy
🔹 NGO Palace – Ivano-Frankivsk

Through targeted capacity building, the initiative will strengthen multi-stakeholder collaboration between civil society, municipalities, universities, public authorities, and private sector actors creating stronger local networks for long-term recovery and resilience.

The project will use the Her City methodology to ensure that inclusion, participation, and local ownership are embedded throughout the recovery process.

Urban Recovery Ukraine aims to achieve:
✨ Increased local knowledge and capacity around inclusive and gender-transformative cities
✨ Operational participatory governance processes in municipalities
✨ A cross-city alliance connecting Ukrainian municipalities with Swedish and European networks for long-term peer learning and collaboration

13/05/2026

🏙️ The countdown has started - We are looking forward to seeing you in a week! Join Her City at WUF13 – Housing the World

We’re excited to invite you to our Housing Her City training on
📅 Wednesday 20 May
⏰ 09:30–11:30

This interactive session marks the official launch of Housing Her City, where we’ll share our work from around the world and dive into a hands-on training using Her City tools.

Designed for urban practitioners, policy makers & civil society, this session focuses on how to make housing and urban development more inclusive, especially across gender and age.

What to expect:
🌐 Real case studies
🧩 Practical group work
🛠️ Hands-on experience with digital tools & participatory methods

Together, we’ll explore how inclusive approaches can shape safer, more resilient, and sustainable cities.


.ngo .ukraine

12/05/2026

✨ How do we create a place where everyone feels welcome to move?

We are proud to announce the first city that will be part of the Her City Sweden initiative in collaboration with the Arwidsson Foundation.

Discover Sollentuna and join us in shaping the future of movement, sports & community in Södra Häggvik.

This May, Sollentuna Municipality together with Shared City Foundation, Arwidsson Foundation & Sparks Generation invite girls aged 13–17 to a creative workshop series where your ideas matter.

📍Turebergs fritidsgård
📅 May 16 09:30–16:00

What to expect:
🌿 Explore Södra Häggvik & share your perspective
💡 Create ideas & visions together with
🎮 Bring your ideas to life in

No need to be “sporty”: whether you move every day or not at all, your voice is important. This is about building a place that works for more people

💬 Meet new people
🎨 Express your ideas creatively
📣 Be part of shaping a future meeting place

Together, we create a space for movement, community & inclusion 💛

👉 Registration link in bio



.fritidsgard

12/05/2026

🤝 The Arwidsson Foundation and Shared City Foundation are launching a new partnership to strengthen public health through inclusive urban development with a focus on sports facilities, safe local environments, and equal access to movement and community.

Research shows that when people have access to safe public spaces, green areas, sports facilities, and walkable neighborhoods, physical activity increases, mental health improves, and social inequalities decrease. Inclusive environments also strengthen social cohesion and contribute to safer communities.

🏃🏻‍♀️Yet many young people, especially girls in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas, still face barriers to participating in organized sports and using public spaces. Access is not only about resources, but also about how cities and facilities are designed.

Through Her City, municipalities can involve young people directly in the planning and design of future urban environments. By listening to girls’ experiences and everyday realities, cities can make better decisions and create places that work for more people.

🌍 Her City today has:
✨ 1,500 registered users
✨ Presence in 500+ cities
✨ Activity across 125 countries
✨ 400 independent initiatives worldwide

When young girls are included in planning processes, we create cities that are safer, healthier, and more inclusive for everyone.

08/05/2026

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07/03/2026

💜 Today is International Women’s Day and this year’s theme is ‘Give to Gain’.

We celebrate the women and girls shaping their cities, and the partners helping turn inclusion into action.

Because when we give women and girls the tools, space, and safety to participate, cities gain stronger communities, better public spaces, and more resilient futures for everyone.

The Her City initiative is about building, more resilient and inclusive cities with women and girls - in any city, in any context - and ensuring that partners everywhere can access the tools to drive change locally.

That’s why we’re excited to share new and updated Her City resources.

The New Her City Guide is now available in:
🇵🇹 Portuguese
🇪🇸 Spanish
🇬🇧 English

Special Her City Crusis editions available:
📍Recovery & Reconstruction in Ukraine 🇺🇦
📍IDP integration in Mozambique 🇲🇿

👀 Other special editions are coming soon - and more translations are on the way.

🔗 Link in bio / comments

16/02/2026