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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.
Guia Metodologica de Manual “Herramientas para la Promocion de Ciudades Seguras desde la Perspectiva de Genero”
By Fundacion Guatemala
Este trabajo se enmarca dentro de la ejecución de la Primera Fase del Programa Ciudades Seguras en la República de Guatemala, la cual se ejecutó en la segunda mitad del año 2008.
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.
Grassroots Women’s Leadership and ‘Deepening Democracy’: the Huairou Commission’s Local to Local Dialogue Replication
By Dahlia Goldenberg
This article in Gender & Development Oxfam Journal examines how grassroots women’s organisations in Uganda, Kenya, and Russia have successfully adapted the Local to Local Dialogue method to their local contexts, empowering and recognising poor women as community leaders.
The Local to Local Dialogue: A Tool for Strengthening Women’s Capacity to Negotiate and Partner with Local Authorities (Ghana)
By Sarah Silliman
From March 17th to 20th, over forty women leaders, representing grassroots women’s self-help groups, and women-focused CBOs and NGOs from twelve countries across West, East and Southern Africa met for the Community Facilitators Training on the Local to Local Dialogue.
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