Local Authority Collaboration Regarding Planning and Development

URBAN DATA DASHBOARD

Kadir Has University Istanbul Studies Center is the partner of the project Empowering Civil Society and Municipalities for Data-Driven Participatory Gender Equality Policies conducted by the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV). The project aims to provide accessible data on gender inequalities and their distribution at the neighborhood level in İzmir and Balıkesir and to highlight the importance of data-driven decision-making by visualizing this data on an interactive platform. By doing so, the project aims to increase the advocacy activities of civil society organizations by strengthening the cooperation between CSOs and local governments. Access to spatial and urban evidence will allow women’s CSOs to present new, diversified, and tangible demands for urban governance based on gender equality to municipalities and other public institutions. Women’s CSOs will find opportunities for informed participation and advocacy for gender equality.

Within the scope of the project, gender-sensitive neighborhood-level datasets were prepared for both project cities. Data on average household size, marital status, education, population density, preschool education, health, and access to public transportation services were gathered, and thematic and synthesis maps were prepared for monitoring gender inequalities by geographic distribution. For more information, please visit: https://map.kent95.org/#