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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.
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.
Gender Budgeting: A Key to Making Cities More Accountable to Women; An Example from Caloocan City, Philippines
By Grassroots Women’s Empowerment Center (GWEC) and the Caloocan City Government September
This paper focuses on how the grassroots and professional women came together as pioneers in advancing women’s rights and well-being in the City of Caloocan and how they challenged the local government to make the gender and development budget work for women.
From Dialogue to Engagement, from Programs to Policies: Grassroots Initiatives on Women, Children, and Development in Poor Communities in the Philippines: The DAMPA Experience
By Damayan ng Maralitang Pilipinong Api (DAMPA)
Paper presented at the Grassroots Women’s International Academy (GWIA), 7-11 September 2004, Barcelona, Spain.
Local to Local Dialogue: A Grassroots Women’s Perspective on Good Governance
By Suranjana Gupta
Local to Local Dialogue sets out to understand how women in different parts of the world are grappling with the practical ways to claim their citizenship.
Capacity Development of Grassroots Networks to Become Effective Partners in Local Governance for Poverty Eradication: Lessons from Below
By Sangeetha Purushothaman
For grassroots networks to become effective partners to local government, capacity development is needed for civil society, local government and other financial institutions that support grassroots initiatives.
Advancing Governance Through Peer Learning and Networking: Lessons Learned from Grassroots Women
By Monika Jaeckel
Grassroots women’s groups worldwide are redefining governance and development in their communities. Center staging grassroots women’s practices, supporting their leadership and mainstreaming their perspectives are key to sustainable development.
The Safe Roof Retrofit Booklet
By The Construction Resource & Development Centre
This booklet was created to assist builders and homeowners build and strengthen roofs to survive hurricane damage. The booklet describes and illustrates techniques that will help create roof that are able to withstand hurricanes in the future.
Understanding Community Resilience
By GROOTS International
Working with grassroots women in Latin America and the Caribbean, and Asia, GROOTS International facilitated conversations that enabled women to reflect on their development and disaster experiences, in order to help women create a common understanding of resilience.
Community Assessment Tools
By Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP), India
After disasters, the communities who are affected are rarely involved in assessing the damages and loss that has affected them. One of the greatest community tools could be the women from poor communities, as they would be able to collect information that feeds into damage assessments. If these women were involved in these processes, then […]
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