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POLICY REVIEW
focused on intergenerational
care, particularly for women
in the informal workforce.
Further, the city of Lagos is
planning 104 community
recycling centres that will also
act as information centres
with a focus on women and
youth empowerment. The
city intends to place two
centres per local council
development area and up to
20 jobs will be created per
2
centre. This highlights the
need to understand the local
context and needs by adopting
an evidence-based and
participatory approach while
implementing intervention at
the city livelihood centres.
Health Care Center
School
Productive
public space
(e.g. Food Court)
Care Service Building
(For the care receivers)
Pacifying
of roads
Bike lanes
Figure 1. Care Block, Bogota
(https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/bogota-cares/)
1 https://www.ilo.org/sites/default/files/wcmsp5/groups/public/@dgreports/@gender/documents/genericdocument/wcms_737555.pdf
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Figure 2. Kadiya Naka, Ahmedabad
(Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation)
In India, improved labour such spaces can play a pivotal
chowks are already functional role in developing cities that
in several cities. For example, meet the needs of informal
Kadiya Naka in Ahmedabad sector workers.
and Shehari Nirman Chowk
in Noida feature designs Barriers and Challenges
that provide shaded seating The development and
spaces, access to sanitation, management of social
and drinking facilities for daily infrastructure for informal
wage labourers. Government sector workers is hindered
investment in creating more by various barriers. These
include land scarcity,
resource mismanagement,
Public space for operational inefficiencies,
alternative Economies
(e.g. Women’s Entrepreneurship) funding limitations, and
social barriers. Some of the
key challenges are outlined
below:
Circular
routes Land Availability: In rapidly
growing cities across India,
particularly in metropolitan
and hill cities, land has
Community become an increasingly scarce
space and precious resource. Given
(e.g. Urban gardens)
this limitation, carving out
land in appropriate locations
for the development of
“Caring those who essential social infrastructure,
care” building such as shelters, livelihood
(for the caregivers) centres, and public amenities,
is very difficult and often
costly, creating an additional
obstacle to the expansion of
vital infrastructure.