TABLE 1
FROM:
The effectiveness of women's safety audits
Carolyn Whitzman, Margaret Shaw, Caroline Andrew and Kathryn Travers
BACK TO ARTICLETable 1. A framework for evaluating the success of women's safety audits (modified from Whitzman, 2007 which in turn is based on Disney and Gelb, 2000)
| Goals | Mechanisms for Success | Measurements of Success |
|---|---|---|
| Achievement of policy objectives (goods, services, policies, programmes) | Cooperation and negotiation between organizations, governments, and possibly, the private sector | Measurable outcomes (Did the change lead to improved built environments, new policies or new participatory processes? Did it reduce insecurity and/or crime?) Are results written up? Is success replicable to other places and at other scales? Do these improvements or policies endure over time? |
| Organizational adaptation and survival (sustainable planning mechanisms and organizations) | Developing and maintaining economic and human resources: getting money, new members and new partnerships | Has the organization survived? Has it made new partnerships? Has it received funding to implement recommendations? |
| Building a resource base for future organizing (better informed and more representative planners and institutions) | Renegotiating internal organizational structures, including the recognition of diversity | Were diverse women involved? Has it led to changes in the way the organizations works or its priorities? |
| Challenging patriarchal ideas and norms (policies, analysis, governance, theory) | Expansion of a feminist agenda within the planning and governance environment | Have the lessons from audits informed training of planners, architects or local government officials? Has the organization been successful in embedding an understanding or gender or other grounds of difference within planning and governance? Are there equity improvements traceable to women's safety audits? |
