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Featured Publications
Leading Resilient Development: Grassroots Women’s Priorities, Practices and Innovations
By Maureen Fordham and Suranjana Gupta with Supriya Akerkar and Manuela Scharf
This publication will enrich understanding of the critical linkages among disaster, development, poverty and gender-based inequality.
Catalyzing Community-led Action
By Suranjana Gupta
Learn about community-led action by the Community Practitioners Platform and how it has focused on gaining the endorsement of community led action from institutional actors operating at local, national, regional and global levels; and how Groots International and Huairou Commission resource grassroots women for key roles in building resilience.
Ponte do Maduro: Land Regularization with Gender Equality
By Ayse Yonder, Katia Araujo and Patricia Chaves
Report on Shadow Advisory Committee’s International Mission to Ponte do Maduro, Recife, Brazil (10-12 January 2011).
Grassroots Women and Land
By Huairou Commission
The Huairou Commission calls for sustained advocacy to advance women’s access, ownership and control over land and resources at the local, national and global levels by positioning grassroots women as knowledge holders in policy making frameworks.
L2L Manual
By Edited by Sarah Silliman
After three years in the making, Huairou Commission announces the release of the Local-to-Local Dialogue Resource Manual: A Guide for Grassroots Women-Led Engagement with Local Government and Decision Makers.
Final Report: Global Summit on Grassroots Women’s Leadership and Governance
By Carolina Pinhiero, edited by Sarah Silliman
The Summit, co-sponsored by UNDP and the Dutch Foreign Ministry MDG 3 FUND, marked the accumulation of a decade of work empowering women in low-income communities worldwide to improve their living conditions, transform their communities, and exchange their experiences with women across various regions of the world.
The Women and Gender Constituency
By The Women and Gender Constituency
This publication focuses on the work of the Women and Gender Constituency to ensure human rights and the gender dimension are incorporated into UNFCCC negotiations, agreements, plans and actions.
Tools For Securing Land and Property
By Huairou Commission
Grassroots Women’s avenues to claiming, gaining and maintaining land, housing and property.
Grassroots Sisterhood Foundation: Supporting Equitable Land Rights and Food Security in Ghana
By Jeffrey Kaloustian and Fati Alhassan
In October-November 2009, the Huairou Commission held focus Group Discussions (FGDs) with 60 women in communities within the Tolon-Kumbungu, Savelugu-Nanton, and Tamale regions in northern Ghana, where extreme poverty and food insecurity are widespread.
WLLA—Grassroots Women’s Land Academy Report 2010 (3rd Annual)
By Huairou Commission
Women’s Land Link Africa (WLLA) Report: Grassroots Women Focus on Peer Learning, Exchange of Grassroots Tools, and Action Plans for the Future
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