Gender infrastructure gaps galvanise diverse partners

Subject

Efforts to close gender infrastructure gaps.

Significance

Development institutions, governments, and private-sector investors, developers and operators are increasingly integrating a gender lens into infrastructure projects. This approach is integral to achieving the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), facilitating broad-based economic growth and making infrastructure more efficient and commercially viable.

Impacts

• Improved infrastructure would increase women's participation in the formal labour force, especially in developing cities and rural areas.
• Better telecommunications access would enable women to move up the value-chain in the gig economy.
• Gender-sensitive analysis will gradually become central to corporate due diligence.