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New generations need to be more transformative, not keeping women and #gender separate. #WUF9

Now we're hearing from @anorodom who attended #WUF9 - there was no reason why #gender issues were separate from the sub-agendas of the #NewUrbanAgenda

24 sessions at #WUF9 that addressed #gender with mainly women on the panels and mainly women in attendance. Denies that 50% of the population are still affected by all the other #NewUrbanAgenda sub-agendas

Disconnect between fully integrated urban planning and work designed and delivered by women in slums. Disconnect between community work and high-level panels. #WUF9 #gender

Now from @lauramslima: If you see a #gender focal point in your organisation, give them a hug because they are fighting a difficult fight within their institution, and a fight against patriarchy.

Hearing how at #Rio92 the community were separate (40km apart) from the conference. Since then global summits have changed a lot. #gender

It took until #COP22 for there to be a #Gender Action Plan. We never talk about #CEDAW which was signed in 1979. But there is reason to be optimistic...

At #Habitat3 @lauramslima met Caroline Moser and heard that she was going back to her radical roots. It was time to take a look at what #gender & women's equality actually means.

Challenge: when you look at the programmes of these events like #WUF9 look at whether women & #gender are listed as a sub-set of vulnerable groups. Is it tokenistic?

Stop talking about #gender issues as if they exist in a vacuum. #WUF9

Question from @lizcarlile - what would you see different in 5 years time? Caroline Moser: grassroots groups are very important and are often strong on #intersectionality

@dee_are_dee says that grassroots voices are more effectively used at events like #WUF9, due to both technology and their having sophisticated messages.

Would it be different if there were more men involved in these discussions? If men were comfortable talking about #gender at events like #WUF9

@lauramslima: we have a system that produces poor people. If we don't treat the root of the system, we're just treating the symptom. Always look at the grassroots: what makes a community move forward? Representation is the first step but we need to deepen the discussion.

We can't forget the generation that fought to get a Women's Assembly in place, but we still need to move forward. #gender #WUF9

On the question of capacity-building in #gender: we need to improve the capacity of the people as well as the data.

Question about women & men: @lauramslima says the question is really about how we are all affected by #patriarchy - if you change the discussion to that, you can be more creative on the discussion of women & men.

Also, on capacity, @CitiesAlliance works on the local, national and international level - there has to be a capacity to negotiate on all levels.

Caroline Moser discussing how you have to be both academic and operational to move the discussion forward and contest power relations. #gender

Moser says #gender is talked about very theoretically still, and needs to be operational - planned.

More questions from the room, on #gender data & technology, the structure of events like #WUF9 and how we move forward.

Moser on who organises events like #WUF9 - it's not who organises, but how can they be changed? Alternative power structures can play a role in changing them.