What are the barriers women face and how do we increase their participation so that urban governance become more inclusive? Escalante and Valdivia  show the participatory tools that can be used at different stages of planning for women's empowerment using bottom-up planning models. Using these tools makes planning processes more inclusive. Araujo and Tejedo-Romero  show from Spanish local councils that women's political representation in municipalities has a positive influence on the level of transparency, increasing information transparency and reducing information asymmetry. In Myanmar, Minoletti  increased levels of women's participation in urban authorities helped to improve the quality of governance such as reducing corruption and conflicts, and improving service delivery.
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