We bring women’s perspectives into every aspect of leadership, policy-making, and development.
Our Publications
Featured Publications
SEEDS Pamphlet No. 22 Women’s Participation in Disaster Relief and Recovery
By Huairou Commission and GROOTS International
Seeds pamphlets are designed to meet global requests for information about the innovative and practical program ideas advanced to address the roles and needs of low-income women. This edition focuses on practical examples of how low-income women can participate in post disaster relief and recovery.
Global Initiative on Women’s Security of Tenure flyer (Español)
By Huairou Commission
La Iniciativa global sobre la Tenencia Segura para las Mujeres de la Comisión Huairou es una plataforma para avanzar a un enfoque alternativo sobre la seguridad en la tenencia de la tierra para las mujeres que se funde en las experiencias de los grupos de mujeres de base.
Handling Land: Tools for Land Governance and Secure Tenure
By United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
Mounting pressure and competition mean that improving land governance – the rules, processes and organizations through which decisions are made about land – is more urgent than ever. This book shows how the Global Land Tool Network is addressing these problems and more by setting an international agenda on land.
From Dialogue to Engagement, from Programs to Policies: Grassroots Initiatives on Women, Children, and Development in Poor Communities in the Philippines: The DAMPA Experience
By Damayan ng Maralitang Pilipinong Api (DAMPA)
Paper presented at the Grassroots Women’s International Academy (GWIA), 7-11 September 2004, Barcelona, Spain.
Local to Local Dialogue: A Grassroots Women’s Perspective on Good Governance
By Suranjana Gupta
Local to Local Dialogue sets out to understand how women in different parts of the world are grappling with the practical ways to claim their citizenship.
Gender Budgeting: A Key to Making Cities More Accountable to Women; An Example from Caloocan City, Philippines
By Grassroots Women’s Empowerment Center (GWEC) and the Caloocan City Government September
This paper focuses on how the grassroots and professional women came together as pioneers in advancing women’s rights and well-being in the City of Caloocan and how they challenged the local government to make the gender and development budget work for women.
Capacity Development of Grassroots Networks to Become Effective Partners in Local Governance for Poverty Eradication: Lessons from Below
By Sangeetha Purushothaman
For grassroots networks to become effective partners to local government, capacity development is needed for civil society, local government and other financial institutions that support grassroots initiatives.
Advancing Governance Through Peer Learning and Networking: Lessons Learned from Grassroots Women
By Monika Jaeckel
Grassroots women’s groups worldwide are redefining governance and development in their communities. Center staging grassroots women’s practices, supporting their leadership and mainstreaming their perspectives are key to sustainable development.
The Safe Roof Retrofit Booklet
By The Construction Resource & Development Centre
This booklet was created to assist builders and homeowners build and strengthen roofs to survive hurricane damage. The booklet describes and illustrates techniques that will help create roof that are able to withstand hurricanes in the future.
BrainTrust III Summary Report
By Huairou Commission for Asia Development Bank
Summary of the BrainTrust III Meeting, October 2014. This 3-day meeting aimed to gather inputs, clarify concepts and renew primary directions, from the leadership of the Resilience thematic campaign in relation to its vision, goal and objectives, in particular in relation to its two main mechanisms – the Community Resilience Fund (CRF) and the Community […]
Categories
- Governance (40)
- Habitat (14)
- Land & Property (29)
- Livelihoods (1)
- Resilience (40)
- Value Chains (1)