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

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Manual on Community Action in Housing Reconstruction after Disaster (English)

English

By Garifuna-Comite, Honduras

The Garífuna Emergency Committee of Honduras with the support of GROOTS International and AJWS Present created a manual that focuses on the forming of construction committees, safe sites, the beneficiaries of transparent processes, community participation in house design, housing support, principles and the empowerment of women.


Manual on Disaster Preparedness for Children

English

By Sanghamitra Service Society (SSS), Andra Pradesh, India

Children enjoy learning the practical drills of First Aid and Emergency Rescue, skills that will not only help their villages in a disaster, but will enable these children to cope with disasters better. Sanghamitra Service Society created this manual to be a teaching resource.


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.


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.


BrainTrust III Summary Report

English

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 […]


Grassroots Women’s Community Empowerment Toolkit Published!

By Huairou Commission for Asia Development Bank

In 2021 Huairou launched a new global Leadership Development Program in response to members’ demands to systematically invest in strengthening grassroots women’s leadership – the foundation on which Huairou’s movement rests. The Program was informed by Huairou’s peer learning and  mentorship approach that nurtures new leadership, sustains organizations and promotes a culture of collaboration that […]