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From Beneficiaries to Stakeholders: Grassroots Women’s Groups Drive the Demand for Good Governance Through Pro-poor Development
By Prema Gopalan, Suranjana Gupta, Shannon Hayes, and Birte Sholtz
The paper frames the issue of governance from the perspective of grassroots women‘s groups addressing settlement development.
Building Better Futures: Empowering Grassroots Women to Build Resilient Communities
By GROOTS International
Disaster response programs are opportunities for women to become active participants in shaping the futures of their communities through innovation solutions that address practical problems such as shelter, credit, livelihood and basic services, all of which allows women to build a better future.
Monitoring and Evaluation: A How-to Handbook for Grassroots Women’s Organizations
By Renee Kantelberg and Jo Kempon, on behalf of the Huairou Commission
The objectives of this handbook are to: provide an overview of some of the basic concepts and central issues in M&E; introduce an overall framework that will help grassroots women implement an M&E system appropriate to their context; and introduce a number of concepts and tools to help grassroots women engage in a practical approach […]
Community Mapping: A How-To Handbook for Grassroots Women’s Organizing
By Matt Wade with the assistance of Nicole Ganzekaufer, Shannon Hayes, Nipin Vanvadharan and Swayan Shikshan Prayog (SSP)
A handbook on community mapping, a participatory process for assessing the situations in a community and documenting the knowledge of community members.
Peer Exchange Handbook
By Steve Jeanetta, PhD, produced by the Huairou Commission
Peer Exchanges: Sharing the Experiences of Grassroots Women’s Organizations.
Local to Local Cookbook: A Resource Manual on National Roundtables; the Guideline Used in the Network of Mother Centres in the Czech Republic
By Rut Kolínská
Roundtable discussion on guideline used in the network of Mother Centres in the Czech Republic.
Land Ownership and Property Control: Grassroots Women Document Innovations in Practice
By Jacqueline Leavitt PhD, on behalf of Huairou Commission
The lack of land ownership and control over housing are destructive to the everyday lives of women in much of Africa. Women’s groups are responding in innovative ways to change their lives; this report focuses on grassroots women’s strategies to attain and manage land, housing and property.
Shaping Our Own Destiny: Experiences of Micro Finance Programme in Slum and Squatter Communities in Kathmandu and Lalitpur Cities
By By Lumanti Support Group for Shelter
Lumanti Support Group for Shelter is a non-governmental organization dedicated towards alleviation of urban poverty in Nepal through the improvement of shelter conditions in slum and squatter settlements.
Listen to Us Land Ownership and Property Control: Grassroots Women Document Innovations in Practice
By Jacqueline Leavitt PhD With the assistance of Blerta Cela, Ava Bromberg, Deirdre Pfeiffer and Nicole Ganzekaufe
The lack of land ownership and control over housing are destructive to the everyday lives of women in much of Africa. As widows and orphans, they face physical displacement and mental stress, literally uprooted from their communities and social networks. This blow is worsened by the atrocities of genocide and pandemic HIV-AIDS that ravages entire […]
Women’s Views From the Frontline
By Huairou Commission
This action research by the Huairou Commission was created to draw attention to the fact that grassroots women are key stakeholders in disaster risk reduction and the demand for greater accountability from local and national governments, but are often overlooked and excluded.
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- Land & Property (29)
- Livelihoods (1)
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