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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.
Engendering the New Urban Agenda
By Huairou Commission
Report of the Expert Group Meeting 29-30 September, 2015. The Strategic Interface Between Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment and Sustainable Urban Development & Cities.
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.
Policy Recommendations to Advance Women’s Leadership in Developing Inclusive Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements: Latin America, the Caribbean, & Beyond
By Huairou Commission
The Huairou Commission (HC): Women, Homes and Community network has functioned as the lead organizer and strategic convener of grassroots women’s organizations and other women’s groups and constituencies working to make the New Urban Agenda (NUA) an engendered policy and partnership framework placing women’s participation at the center of producing inclusive, equitable and prosperous cities […]
Women on the road to Habitat III Engendering the New Urban Agenda: Mid-Term Review
By Huairou Commission
The Huairou Commission has brought together hundreds of women leaders and men allies from various social sectors (grassroots, academia, civil society organizations, local government, private sector) for the purpose of Engendering the New Urban Agenda (NUA). The Habitat Agenda remains a key political platform for promoting the policies and programs that affect the daily lives […]
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