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Women’s Views From the Frontline
By Huairou Commission
This action research by the Huairou Commission was created to draw attention to the fact that grassroots women are key stakeholders in disaster risk reduction and the demand for greater accountability from local and national governments, but are often overlooked and excluded.
Recipes for Resilience
By Huairou Commission
This publication demonstrates how bringing women living in diverse situations together allows marginalized women to explain and debate their approaches for recovering or reducing the damages and losses caused by natural disasters, environmental degradation and climate change and to share their knowledge and experiences.
Catalyzing Community-led Action
By Suranjana Gupta
Learn about community-led action by the Community Practitioners Platform and how it has focused on gaining the endorsement of community led action from institutional actors operating at local, national, regional and global levels; and how Groots International and Huairou Commission resource grassroots women for key roles in building resilience.
Leading Resilient Development: Grassroots Women’s Priorities, Practices and Innovations
By Maureen Fordham and Suranjana Gupta with Supriya Akerkar and Manuela Scharf
This publication will enrich understanding of the critical linkages among disaster, development, poverty and gender-based inequality.
BrainTrust III Summary Report
By Huairou Commission for Asia Development Bank
Summary of the BrainTrust III Meeting, October 2014. This 3-day meeting aimed to gather inputs, clarify concepts and renew primary directions, from the leadership of the Resilience thematic campaign in relation to its vision, goal and objectives, in particular in relation to its two main mechanisms – the Community Resilience Fund (CRF) and the Community […]
What Communities Want: Putting Community Resilience Priorities on the Agenda for 2015
By Huairou Commission
This action research, conducted by the Community Practitioners Platform for Resilience in seven Asian countries, is an effort to capture the voices of community leaders and bring the resilience priorities of poor, disaster-prone communities into debates that will shape the new policy frameworks on disaster risk reduction to be launched in 2015.
Resilient Women: Integrating Community Resilience Priorities in the Post-2015 Agenda
By Huairou Commission
“Resilient Women: Integrating Community Resilience Priorities in the Post-2015 Agenda” is an action research publication of the Community Practitioners Platform for Resilience in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Community Practitioners Platform for Resilience (CPP) is an organizing and networking mechanism for community-based groups, grassroots women-led groups in particular, to reduce their vulnerability to disaster […]
Community Resilience at Scale: Grassroots Women Demonstrating Successful Practices
By Ana Liz Flores, Manuela Pinilla, and Irene Leung
“Community Resilience at Scale: Grassroots Women Demonstrating Successful Practices” shares successful grassroots strategies for building community resilience to disasters and climate change. It showcases women leading sustainable development in their communities, and features scaling up strategies in order to influence global agendas such as the Hyogo Framework for Action 2 and Post 2015 Development Agenda.
Community-Led Partnerships for Resilience
By The World Bank Group
“Community-Led Partnerships for Resilience” is a 2015 publication co-presented by the World Bank Group, and Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) in partnership with the Community Practitioners Platform (CPP) co-led by Huairou Commission (HC) and Groots International (GI). It highlights the role of community-based organizations (CBOs) in advancing resilience and sustainable development in […]
The Global Community Resilience Fund: Operational Framework and Guideline
By Huairou Commission
This publication presents the operational Guidelines of the Community Resilience Fund (CRF), a financial mechanism for supporting grassroots women’s groups implement and scale up community driven development practices.
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