About City & Shelter

The organisation carries out action/research in the following areas:
- town planning and housing and gender issues
- low cost housing - alternative housing
- violence and gender issues
- ITC for women organisations
- men issues

City & Shelter is a non-profit organisation, whose initial projects concern the incorporation of gender issues into all aspects of decision making in the fields of town planning, transport, urban safety and habitat. City & Shelter has coordinated three research actions for the Commission of the European Communities (Equal Opportunities Unit - DGV). The work of the European team involved in the project resulted in the publication of a "European Charter for Women in the City" in 1994 in thirteen different languages. This document is included on the CD-ROM City, Citizenship and Gender.
Some members of City & Shelter    

	The European Charter for women in the city

The Charter is viewed as a lasting and open analytical process containing a series of concrete proposals which might be put into practice in order to take into account and to promote increasingly active citizenship by women in regional and town planning as a whole.

One of the presuppositions is that a woman's self-interest does not exist as such, but that women may act as catalysts in the process of change and of improvements of living conditions of all concerned.

The aim of this Charter is to promote a more liberated society, free from all stereotypes which hinder any development in town planning and services, housing, safety and mobility.

CD-Rom "City, Citizenship and Gender"

In January 1998, City & Shelter produced a CD-Rom gathering thousands of pages of ideas, experiences, studies axed on gender issues in the fields of the habitat and development. The CD-Rom is structured in six main themes : Equal opportunities, Micro-credits, Habitat and cities, Appropriate technologies, les Eco-villages, Development-environment. This CD-Rom was realized with the support of the UNESCO and of the French Community of Belgium.

Content

The European Profeminist Men's Network

Since 1998, in collaboration with the french association "Les Traboules" , City & Shelter takes part in the setting-up of a European Profeminist Men's Network, in the framework of a project supported by the  European Commission (Equal Opportunities Unit). The network now has a Website , http://www.europrofem.org, a trimestrial newsletter and has produced a CD-Rom (June 98), gathering international   contributions, articles, books, thesis, reports,...either old or more recent, which deals with  issues like men and masculinity, violence against women and children, homophobia, patriarchy, the culture of peace...

The White Ribbon Campaign in Europe
A project supported by the European Commission in 2000  http://www.eurowrc.org  

  C&S and North-South solidarity

C&S aims to realise a Global Development Project, in collaboration with women organizations, in order to favor the raise of  Tourism Development, ITC and Women Foster

  Other projects in work ...
for which partners and sponsors can still manifest themselves for which partners and sponsors can still manifest themselves

Eco-Villages: development of user-friendly housing units
Cabin (minimalist shelter) open source competition
Alternative Housing (2001: www.habiter-autrement.org in French yet)
Seniors and now? (2003 in construction: www.tp69.org in French yet)
CD-Rom:  Gender Mainstreaming  and Mobility (done in 2002 for the Ministry of Transport from Belgium)
CD-Rom: Men and Violence (done in 2002 for the Council of Europe)
 Low Cost Housing (and desasters)
Death in Europe