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Women’s Assembly

The Women’s Assembly at the Eleventh World Urban Forum (WUF11) is a key meeting point for participants working to build sustainable, gender-responsive and inclusive cities.
date June 26, 2022 | 12:00 - 19:00
place
Special Session Room 1
language
Polish, Spanish, English, French + ISL [Polish + English]

Summary

UN-Habitat recognizes that gender mainstreaming is key to developing solutions for accelerating progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and implementing the New Urban Agenda (NUA).

In line with WUF11’s theme on “Transforming our cities for a better urban future”, the Women’s Assembly will focus on how the implementation of the NUA plays a key role to contributing to inclusive urban development.

This assembly will strive to address current issues such as rapid urban population growth and its effect on socially excluded groups. The needs of women living in slums and disadvantaged neighbourhoods, of elderly women, of disabled women, of indigenous women, and of those from ethnic and cultural minorities all continue to present particular challenges for those working to include representative groups of women in safe cities, and women’s rights work.

The meeting will focus on gender inclusion through a wider lens which accounts for the multiple exclusions women face while living in cities worldwide. Women from every level of urban life will be at the centre of this event, sharing their strength and experience in order to collectively develop strategies for confronting the issues that threaten women’s equality and inclusion in cities.

The Women’s assembly session will assess the situation in different parts of the world, identify good practices that can be scaled up and formulate concrete recommendations for relevant stakeholders.

Sub Title

Women Leading Peace, Security, Resilience, Care, & Economic Recovery: a Pathway to Transform Cities for Better Future

Guiding Questions for discussions

  • What policy measures are required to make cities and human settlements more inclusive, safe, accessible, affordable, peaceful, resilient, and sustainable, considering the different problems, needs and interests of women from the global South and North, especially in the recovery programs and in the planning of the reconstruction of cities after humanitarian emergencies, such as covid, climate change, and conflicts?
  • What good practices, experiences, and cultural changes have emerged from the Covid pandemic in terms of gender impacts in, human settlements and urban areas?
  • What are some of the specific challenges faced by migrant and refugee women on arrival?
  • What can cities do to specifically promote the integration of refugee women and their dependents?
  • What types of measures can be put in place to ensure that intersectional gender equality and equity considerations are integrated into urban governance, planning, implementation, funding and evaluation?  
  • What systemic institutional mechanisms are required to link the implementation of SDG 11, SDG 5, and the New Urban Agenda?
  • How can we ensure and build strengthened integration of gender responsive approaches and women’s empowerment in human settlements?  
  • How are national, regional, local level governments collecting and analyzing disaggregated data on urban planning to improve programming and monitor progress?  
  • What accountability mechanisms are in place to ensure that cities deliver for all women and girls?  
  • What role do women’s organizations and grassroots women play in all this?
  • How do the core documents of WUF11 available in agreed UN languages contribute to the inclusion and further promotion of the NUA?

Concept Note

Violet Shivutse

Huairou Commission | Chair

Ines Sanchez De Madariaga

AGGI.UNH | Chair

María del Pilar Magdalena Amanda del Corazón de Jesús García y Hernández
María del Pilar Magdalena Amanda del Corazón de Jesús García y Hernández

Bufete de Estudios Interdisciplinarios AC | CEO

Kalpana  Viswanath
Kalpana Viswanath
Safetipin | CEO
Anna Maziarska

Warsaw Women's Council | Member

Anna Bednarczyk

Polish Academy of Sciences | researcher

Catherine  Holt
Catherine Holt
NCNW, Huairou Commission | Counsultant
Michelle Segal
Michelle Segal
Teresa Boccia

University of Naples Federico II, Italy | Professor Urban Planning, University, Naples Federico II, Honorary President of AFEM, Co chair Women Group of GAP, , Cochair WNEB ,

Lara Blanco
Lara Blanco

Executive Office of the Secretary-General United Nations | Director Sustainable Development

Ángela María Orozco-Gómez
Ángela María Orozco-Gómez

Ministry of Transport | Minister

Jan Peterson
Jan Peterson

Huairou Commission | Honorary President
 

Michelle Segal
Michelle Segal
Lana Louise Finikin
Lana Louise Finikin

Sistren Theatre Collective | Director

Zuza Karcz
Zuza Karcz

Organization ‘Add to Calendar’ | Leader

Emilia Kaczmarek
Emilia Kaczmarek

Association 'Menstruation in Action' | Leader

Esther Mwaura-Muiru
Esther Mwaura-Muiru

Landesa | Advisor

Mona Rady

International Union of Architects UIA | Chairperson of UN Habitat Professionals Forum HPF

Hon. Veronika Remišová

Slovakia | Vice-Prime Minister

Bożena Czekańska-Mirek
Bożena Czekańska-Mirek

Soroptimist Interational Association of Poland | President-Elect of Club Silesia in Katowice

Amaya Olivé

UNESCO Chair Gender | Researcher

Camino Rosique

UNESCO Chair Gender | Researcher

Mino Ramaroson
Mino Ramaroson

Huairou Commission | Africa Region Coordinator & Senior Land Policy Advisor

Begoña García Bernal
Begoña García Bernal

Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development, Population and Territory | Minister

Ana Falú

CICSCA, University of Cordoba | Emeritus Professor

Lana Louise Finikin
Lana Louise Finikin

Sistren Theatre Collective | Director

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