What is Urban Equalities?

 The terms “equality,” “equal,” and “equally” signify a qualitative relationship.

 Urban equality is a multi-dimensional experience for urban dwellers. Urban
equality is a cross-cutting condition that manifests in relation to different
wellbeing aspirations. 
 In may view, equality is very-very important for livelihood of any individual
because then only he can give back to his or her society according to the
capability as he is getting equal treatment and so the equal opportunity to do
what he can.
 urban equality as encompassing urban citizens’ access to income and
services; recognition of their diverse social identities in policy and planning
initiatives in their cities; and inclusion in political decisions that affect their
lives.
 Urban equality requires policy and planning which actively engages all actors
in the city and which explicitly addresses differential power relations on the
basis of class, gender, ethnicity, age, race, caste, sexual orientation and
differential abilities.
 Knowledge in Action for Urban
Equality

 "Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality is a response to growing

inequalities in cities" 
 With over half of the world’s populations living in urban areas, improving
living conditions in every country depends on humanity’s capacity to
address urban challenges.  
 KNOW is a response to growing inequalities in cities. the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) and the UN-Habitat New Urban Agenda,
addressing growing inequality is a priority. Urban equality is a
multidimensional experience for urban dwellers encompassing access to
income and services, recognition of diverse social identities, and
inclusion in decisions that affect them.
Objectives of KNOW:
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To co-produce To build and To co-create

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activate capacity in Learning Hubs in
transformations selected DAC countri target countries to
towards urban es and the UK to co-produce relevant
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cities in the global and opportunities of to analyse, plan,
south, with a focus vulnerable urban monitor, and
on redistributive and communities through compare city
integrated actions to partnerships with progress towards
address prosperity, equivalence between national and global
resilience, and networks goals on urban
extreme poverty. and organisations of equality,
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  government, the SDGs and the
  private sector, and Habitat III New