Wise Practices

- Safety
- Blue Phones & SafeWalk Programs on College Campuses
- Bluelight security system technology and late night walking programs, such as SafeWalk, are preventative measures to ensure students, specifically women and gender queer individuals, feel safe when going about campus (especially after dark).
- Economic Security
- City Partnership with Crowdfunding Ecosystem
- City of Boston partners with crowdsourcing platform to help local women entrepreneurs.
- Childcare & Elder Care
- Council Kids Child Minding for Council Meetings
- The City of North Vancouver provides free child-minding for parents attending Council meetings.
- Diversity & Inclusion, Education
- Engendering Success in STEM
- An evidence-based approach to break down the biases girls and women face on their pathways to STEM.
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Gender & Inclusion Strategies
- Develop a civic strategy for gender and diversity inclusion and equity.
- Governance & Leadership
- Guide for Municipal Action on Women’s Equity
- An overview of key issues facing women and concrete opportunities for Municipal Government to take action and move forward on women’s equity.
- Governance & Leadership
- Hot Pink Paper Campaign
- Obtain commitments on women's issues from civic candidates prior to elections.
- Economic Security
- iFundWomen
- City of Boston partners with crowdsourcing platform to help local women entrepreneurs.
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Inclusion Working Group
- Creating a Trans* and Gender Variant Inclusion Working Group for municipal government.
- Governance & Leadership
- Increase Women’s Participation in Municipal Decision Making
- This resource kit explores numerous strategies to increase womens participation in municipal processes and decision-making.
- Childcare & Elder Care
- Increasing Childcare Spaces at the City of Vancouver
- The City of Vancouver uses municipal government levers to stimulate the development of new childcare spaces.
- Governance & Leadership
- Municipal Elections in Canada: a guide for women candidates
- This guide provides tips and tools for campaigning and beyond within the municipal office.
- Diversity & Inclusion, Infrastructure & Services, Transportation, Urban Spaces
- Public Bench Network: Elders Participatory Study
- A participatory study for improving the bench network in the Eixample District in Barcelona
- Housing & Land Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Infrastructure & Services, Urban Spaces
- Safe Spaces for Gender-Diverse Street-Based Sex Workers
- To provide safe spaces and temporary, emergency housing to precariously housed and unhoused gender-diverse street-based sex workers.
- Economic Security
- Salary Negotiation Workshops for Women
- Empowering Boston‘s Women Through Salary Negotiation Workshops.
- Health
- SisterSpace – Women Only Overdose Prevention Site
- The worlds first and only women-only, community-accessible overdose prevention site.

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