Soacha is a municipality in the periphery of Colombia's capital Bogotá, whose population has soared over the past two decades with a constant influx of people displaced by conflict all over the country. The result is a fragile municipality with a majority of highly vulnerable settlements due to: high levels of tenure insecurity; generalised lack of protection and territorial control by gangs; normalised violence; and high levels of intra-urban displacement. Disenfranchisement and lack of rights set the backdrop in which the daily lives of hundreds of thousands of people transcur.

As part of the Horizon 2020 project, the ‘Preparedness and Resilience to address Urban Vulnerability’ (PRUV) Consortium employed the Urban Vulnerability Walk methodology to understand the vulnerabilities of both men and women in a gender-segregated research in one locality –Altos de Florida. While the methodology was useful to identify vulnerabilities and risks, it proved equally useful to better understand the resources of the community, both of the women and the men, in order to overcome the difficulties in which they are immersed and to build a sustainable future.

索阿查（Soacha）是哥伦比亚首都波哥大（Bogotá）外围的一个直辖市。过去二十年来，该市的人口激增，全国各地因冲突而流离失所的人不断涌入。结果造成了一个脆弱的市政当局，其中多数是高度脆弱的定居点，原因是：土地使用权高度不安全；团伙普遍缺乏保护和领土控制；正常暴力；和高水平的城市内部流离失所。剥夺公民权和缺乏权利是成千上万人民日常生活的背景。

作为“地平线2020”项目的一部分，“应对城市脆弱性的准备和抵御能力”（PRUV）联盟采用了城市脆弱性步行方法，在一个地区-佛罗里达州阿尔托斯-进行了性别隔离研究，以了解男女的脆弱性。尽管该方法对于确定脆弱性和风险很有用，但它对于更好地了解社区的资源（包括男女）也同样有用，以克服他们所陷入的困境并建立可持续的未来。