Objective

Building on the “Greater Cairo Safe Cities Free of Violence against Women and Girls” programme and the Global Safe Cities programme, UN Women is scaling up efforts to develop comprehensive tools and approaches to prevent and respond to sexual harassment and other forms of violence against women and girls in public spaces to Alexandria and Damietta governorates. The expected impact of the interventions is (a) a reduction in sexual harassment and other forms of violence against women (SDG 5.2, SDG 11.7) (b) a reduction of fear and increased feelings of safety of women and girls, (c) increased autonomous mobility of women and girls in accessing and using public spaces, and (d) increased women’s economic participation and empowerment.