Gender equality, disability, and social inclusion
What do we mean by GEDSI?
Rebuilding Ukraine means more than restoring infrastructure — it also requires building a society where everyone has equal rights. This is where the principles of GEDSI (Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion) become paramount.
According to the United Nations, GEDSI is a concept designed to enhance access to equal rights, responsibilities, and opportunities for all individuals, including women, those living in poverty, people with disabilities, and other marginalized groups.
According to the United Nations, GEDSI is a concept that addresses unequal power relations experienced by people on the grounds of gender, wealth, ability, location, caste/ethnicity, language, and agency, or a combinationof these dimensions.
Helping to address the gender imbalance problem in construction
Rebuilding Ukraine means more than restoring infrastructure — it also requires building a society where everyone has equal rights. This is where the principles of GEDSI (Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion) become paramount.
Rebuilding Ukraine means more than restoring infrastructure — it also requires building a society where everyone has equal rights. This is where the principles of GEDSI (Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion) become paramount.
According to the United Nations, GEDSI is a concept designed to enhance access to equal rights, responsibilities, and opportunities for all individuals, including women, those living in poverty, people with disabilities, and other marginalized groups.
According to the United Nations, GEDSI is a concept that addresses unequal power relations experienced by people on the grounds of gender, wealth, ability, location, caste/ethnicity, language, and agency, or a combinationof these dimensions.
Our approach
Our approach is to empower women in construction by ensuring they have equal rights, opportunities, and access to mainstream services, moving beyond traditional welfare models.
01.Unlock the barriers.
We want to highlight obstacles and opportunities for women in the Ukrainian construction sector.
02.Promote inclusivity
Ensure that adopting circular concrete practices contributes to a more equitable and inclusive construction industry.
03.Share lived experiences
Through interviews with women in the construction industry, we explore the obstacles they encounter.
Integrating broader inclusion within a gender-focused approach
While this page focuses primarily on gender, given its immediate relevance to the current dynamics in Ukraine’s construction sector, our GEDSI approach is intentionally designed to include other key dimensions such as disability, age, ethnicity, and social vulnerability.
Gender is used as an entry point to promote more inclusive practices overall. As we develop and implement interventions, we will apply an intersectional lens to ensure that strategies are sensitive to the overlapping forms of disadvantage that individuals and groups may face. This allows us to build a more inclusive construction ecosystem that benefits a wider spectrum of underrepresented populations.
