Policy & Legal Review
Women Shaping Cities provides technical policy and legal review services across urban and transport planning sectors. We analyse policies, laws, regulations, and institutional frameworks to assess coherence, implementation readiness, and opportunities for reform in complex urban systems.
A National Review of Kenya's Urban and Regional Planning Frameworks
This report presents a national-level technical review of Kenya’s urban planning policies and legal frameworks through a care- and age-inclusivity lens. It examines how planning laws, regulatory instruments, and institutional mandates recognise or overlook the mobility needs of caregivers, children, and older adults within urban environments.
While urban planning frameworks shape land use, they rarely centre care work, intergenerational mobility, or everyday walking conditions as structural planning priorities. This review evaluates whether current frameworks enable inclusive, safe, and accessible urban mobility, particularly for those whose daily journeys are often invisible in conventional planning practice.
This review forms part of the Invisible in Motion (IiM) initiative by Women Shaping Cities and applies the Caregiver & Age-Sensitive Mobility Index (CAMI) as an evaluative framework.
A National Review of Kenya’s Gender, Child, Ageing, and Disability Frameworks
This report examines Kenya’s national rights-based frameworks through a care- and age-sensitive mobility lens, assessing how policies addressing gender, child protection, ageing, and disability recognise or overlook mobility as a structural determinant of inclusion and wellbeing.
While gender, child, ageing, and disability frameworks aim to address protection, safety, access, and participation, they rarely centre mobility as a structural determinant of inequality. Yet many of the harms these policies seek to mitigate, including gender-based violence, exclusion from services, time poverty, and vulnerability in public spaces, are shaped or intensified by poor mobility conditions.
This review forms part of the Invisible in Motion (IiM) initiative by Women Shaping Cities and applies the Caregiver & Age-Sensitive Mobility Index (CAMI) as an evaluative framework.