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Governance
Building a Grassroots Global Movement: 25 years later
By Pam Ransom & Cathy Holt
The Huairou Commission: Women Homes and Community is a women-led social movement of grassroots groups from poor urban, rural, and indigenous communities who collectively work together to improve living conditions and status.
The Impact of a Global Grassroots Women’s Movement: The 4th World Women’s Conference in Huairou, China, until Today
By Pam Ransom & Cathy Holt
Peer learning was an essential tool for the Huairou Commission since the organization’s inception at the Fourth World Women’s Conference in Huairou, China. Peer learning took place in the grassroots women’s tent. The practice involves fundamental principles of transforming power as participants exchange knowledge, methods, strategies, and experiences with other grassroots women. Peer learning involves […]
Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment
By Huairou Commission; UCLG
The 2019 Congress and World Summit and will mark the way towards the follow up of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the first review of the New Urban Agenda in 2020
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 […]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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