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Huairou Commission’s Initial Analysis and Comments of the Zero Draft of the New Urban Agenda
By Huairou Commission
As grassroots women organizations and women’s networks working on inclusive, gender just and sustainable urbanization and human settlements, we welcome the Zero Draft of the New Urban Agenda, note milestones, and call for certain strengthening.
Engendering the New Urban Agenda: Comments on the Zero Draft
By Irene S. Leung; produced by Huairou Commission and Cities Alliance
Following a long process of negotiations, regional and thematic meetings, and issue papers produced by policy units, the Zero Draft (ZD) of the New Urban Agenda (NUA) was released on May 6, 2016. Intended to be a commentary on the ZD, the objective of the present paper is threefold. Firstly, it assesses the text of […]
Insuring Grassroots Women and Urban Poor Priorities and Roles Are Reflected in the New Urban Agenda
By Huairou Commission
Through our activism and advocacy, the Huairou Commission has publicized women’s priorities and existing good practices. Reaction to the Draft New Urban Agenda in advance of Habitat III PrepCom3.
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 […]
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.
Shaping Our Own Destiny: Experiences of Micro Finance Programme in Slum and Squatter Communities in Kathmandu and Lalitpur Cities
By By Lumanti Support Group for Shelter
Lumanti Support Group for Shelter is a non-governmental organization dedicated towards alleviation of urban poverty in Nepal through the improvement of shelter conditions in slum and squatter settlements.
Land Ownership and Property Control: Grassroots Women Document Innovations in Practice
By Jacqueline Leavitt PhD, on behalf of Huairou Commission
The lack of land ownership and control over housing are destructive to the everyday lives of women in much of Africa. Women’s groups are responding in innovative ways to change their lives; this report focuses on grassroots women’s strategies to attain and manage land, housing and property.
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 […]
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