Engendering the New Urban Agenda: Comments on the Zero Draft

Following a long process of negotiations, regional and thematic meetings, and issue papers produced by policy units, the Zero Draft (ZD) of the New Urban Agenda (NUA) was released on May 6, 2016. Intended to be a commentary on the ZD, the objective of the present paper is threefold. Firstly, it assesses the text of the ZD from a gender perspective. Secondly, it analyzes the extent to which the other Habitat III outcome documents contain issue commitments to gender equality and women’s empowerment. Lastly, the paper highlights some emerging trends in order to propose guiding questions for post-Habitat III discussions.