Publications

Our Publications

We bring women’s perspectives into every aspect of leadership, policy-making, and development.

Publications

Grassroots Women and Land

Year: 2011

English

By Huairou Commission

The Huairou Commission calls for sustained advocacy to advance women’s access, ownership and control over land and resources at the local, national and global levels by positioning grassroots women as knowledge holders in policy making frameworks.


Ponte do Maduro: Land Regularization with Gender Equality

Year: 2011

Spanish

By Ayse Yonder, Katia Araujo and Patricia Chaves

Report on Shadow Advisory Committee’s International Mission to Ponte do Maduro, Recife, Brazil (10-12 January 2011).


Handling Land: Tools for Land Governance and Secure Tenure

Year: 2005

English

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.


Global Initiative on Women’s Security of Tenure flyer (Español)

Year: 2005

Spanish

By Huairou Commission

La Iniciativa global sobre la Tenencia Segura para las Mujeres de la Comisión Huairou es una plataforma para avanzar a un enfoque alternativo sobre la seguridad en la tenencia de la tierra para las mujeres que se funde en las experiencias de los grupos de mujeres de base.


Global Initiative on Women’s Security of Tenure flyer (English)

Year: 2013

English

By Huairou Commission

Huairou Commission’s Global Initiative on Women’s Security of Tenure is a multi-stakeholder platform to advance an alternative approach to women’s security of tenure that is grounded in grassroots women’s experiences.


Our Justice, Our Leadership: The Grassroots Women’s Community Justice Guide

Year: 2013

English

By Pamela Ransom and Joyce Brown

Our Justice, Our Leadership: The Grassroots Women’s Community Justice Guide was designed to serve grassroots women, trainers, and facilitators involved in community justice activities across Africa. It was written by grassroots women, trainers, and facilitators who are members of the Huairou Commission and its Women’s Land Link Africa (WLLA) initiative.


Engendering Access to Justice: Grassroots Women’s Approaches to Securing Land Rights

Year: 2013

English

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.


Land Post 2015

Year: 2013

English

By Huairou Commission

One-pager produced with Landesa, ActionAid, and the global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.


Women and Human Settlements -WAHS- Online Information Portal Final Report

Year: 2014

English

By Huairou Commission and UN-Habitat

This report encompasses the final phase of the WAHS portal project, during which the emphasis was on two projects. This report specifically focus on those.


Community Assessment in Relief, Rehabilitation and Rebuilding

English

By Covenant Centre for Development (CCD)

This slide show discusses the important tools in tsunami affected regions, such as community assessment, distribution of relief aid, materials and services that may be provided, rehabilitation, and rebuilding.