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Governance
Key Messages of the Action Research: Engendering Bottom-Up Justice Reform—A Grassroots Women’s Approach to Accessing Justice
By Regina Pritchett
The study examines how over 70 grassroots women-led groups in 7 countries in Africa—Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe—are using a gender empowerment framework to help women and communities access justice in diverse contexts of legal pluralism.
Peer Exchange Handbook
By Steve Jeanetta, PhD, produced by the Huairou Commission
Peer Exchanges: Sharing the Experiences of Grassroots Women’s Organizations.
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.
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 […]
Huairou Commission’s Report to the Independent Panel
By Huairou Commission
This report documents the history, modes and impact of UN Habitat engagement with the grassroots constituency facilitated by bilateral partnership between UN Habitat and Huairou Commission.
Tools for Change
By Mayra Gomez, Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions;
Applying United Nations standards to secure women’s housing, land, and property rights in the context of HIV.
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.
Engendering Access to Justice: Grassroots Women’s Approaches to Securing Land Rights
By Huairou Commission and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
This community-based research project examines how grassroots women in Africa address key development challenges using innovative approaches for achieving justice in relation to land disputes and gender-based violence brought about by disinheritance and gender discrimination.
Huairou Commission’s Report to the Independent Panel
By Huairou Commission for Asia Development Bank
This report documents the history, modes and impact of UN Habitat engagement with the grassroots constituency facilitated by bilateral partnership between UN Habitat and Huairou Commission.
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