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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.
Transforming Development: Creating Synergies between Grassroots Women and Institutions of Governance
By Best Practices Foundation and Huairou Commission
This publication is part of a series of tools, publications, and resource support that the Huairou Commission has developed to promote horizontal learning amongst grassroots women’s groups and to document and share their strategies and lessons with policymaking and development institutions.
Seeing Beyond the State: Grassroots Women’s Perspectives on Corruption and Anti-Corruption
By Best Practices Foundation and Huairou Commission
In order to better understand corruption from the perspective of women at the grassroots level, the Huairou Commission undertook a study of 11 communities across eight countries in partnership with UNDP’s Global Thematic Programme on Anti-Corruption for Development Effectiveness (PACDE).
Rural Women’s Empowerment in the Sustainable Development Era: Priorities, Partnerships, and Policy for Transformational Change
By Nicole Bohrer, Huairou Commission
This publication presents the outcomes of the 2015-2016 partnership between Huairou Commission and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), to support the mobilization of rural women around the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
MDG Results and Recommendations Booklet
By Sarah Silliman
The Huairou Commission calls for sustained investments in women’s organizations to accelerate progress and realization of the MDGs by 2015.
Global Summit Outcome Document
By Huairou Commission
Outcome Statement from the Grassroots Summit on Women’s Leadership and Governance, March 3-5, 2011.
Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships
By Rachael Wyant & Katarina Spasic
This article builds on case studies and lessons learned from 18 months of the Huariou Commission’s Transparency & Accountability Initiative, with specific reference to initiatives in Metro Manila, Philippines, Thankot, Nepal and Jinja, Uganda. Here, organised groups of grassroots women have established innovative, community-driven mechanims to participate in and monitor decision-making and service delivery in […]
Center Staging Grassroots Women’s Leadership in Securing Sustainable, Inclusive Urbanization
By Huairou Commission
Urban Position paper by the Huairou Commission during the Habitat III process. To adequately overcome challenges presented by urbanization and rise to meet growing opportunities, investment modalities and policy-making should reflect the lived realities and experiences of grassroots constituencies.
Gender transformation in a new global urban agenda: challenges for Habitat III and beyond
By Caroline O. N. Moser
The 2016 Habitat III conference in Quito provides a challenging opportunity to address widespread, persistent urban gender inequalities through the elaboration of a New Urban Agenda (NUA). Independent paper with examples from the Huairou Commission network.
UN-Habitat Gender Journey
By United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
In 2012, UN-Habitat established the Advisory Group on Gender Issues (AGGI) as an independent body to advise the Executive Director on all issues related to gender issues in the agency’s work. One of the first requests of AGGI members was for a document in informing the organisation’s current gender work. This gender history is commissioned […]
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