The Urban Project

It’s today evening.. kindly registre and attend, pressing issues for everyday life practices in Mumbai's communities. Vijayshree Pednekar Dushyant Asher Tejas Patankar Supriya Jan CORO INDIA

CORO’s Right to P*e Campaign added an impetus to the cause of clean, safe, and free public urinals for women, by demanding women’s involvement in toilet management. CORO’s collaboration with Swachata Sanvardhan (Sanstha) Mahasangha, was instrumental in bringing about this change. The women’s groups in the federation exhibited inspiring stories of courage grounded in community experience. Compiling the stories in a book, CORO and the Mahasangha, breaking gender stereotypes, have contributed to the women’s movement.

CORO’s work supported by the Mahasangha and the Urban Project, is being brought forth for a panel discussion organized by IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi, on January 7, 2022, at 7 p.m. IST. With several eminent panelists, the web talk will provide deeper insights into urban sanitation and role of women. Watch it live on https://www.impriindia.com. To join the talk, please register on https://www.impriindia.com/event/urban-sanitation-gender-concerns/

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First step well received, taking this as an inspiration, on one hand we need more localize signage or its guidelines which are sensitive to all the genders / groups and can be worked out by local professionals or organisations in the coming future.

But now the important point here is how we can look beyond symbolism and address the actual gender issues for all together in the development sector on an urgent basis. Burning areas of sanitation, safe public spaces, transport & more need similar response & demand by the people & the media to be able to get the change done.

ongoing thoughts about the intervention.

Symbolism & beyond – Case of female figures on traffic lights in Mumbai Our recent work (the ‘female’ traffic signal) that has spanned across the media, globally is unprecedented. We didn’t expect it to get such wide spread visibility. Thanks a lot for showing your sup…

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Vijayshree Pednekar happy to see such a great response to our work..

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