We bring women’s perspectives into every aspect of leadership, policy-making, and development.
Our Publications
Publications
Integrated Sustainable Development & Women’s Empowerment in Bihar, India
By Jeffrey Kaloustian
Report of Huairou Commission field researcher’s consultations with members of five women’s community-based savings and credit cooperatives in Bihar, India (20-24 August 2010).
Tools For Securing Land and Property
By Huairou Commission
Grassroots Women’s avenues to claiming, gaining and maintaining land, housing and property.
Grassroots Women and Land
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
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
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)
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)
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
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
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
By Huairou Commission
One-pager produced with Landesa, ActionAid, and the global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
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