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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.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
Engendering the New Urban Agenda
By Huairou Commission
Report of the Expert Group Meeting 29-30 September, 2015. The Strategic Interface Between Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment and Sustainable Urban Development & Cities.
Center Staging Grassroots Women’s Leadership in Securing Sustainable, Inclusive Urbanization
By Huairou Commission
Urban Position paper by the Huairou Commission during the Habitat III process. To adequately overcome challenges presented by urbanization and rise to meet growing opportunities, investment modalities and policy-making should reflect the lived realities and experiences of grassroots constituencies.
Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships
By Rachael Wyant & Katarina Spasic
This article builds on case studies and lessons learned from 18 months of the Huariou Commission’s Transparency & Accountability Initiative, with specific reference to initiatives in Metro Manila, Philippines, Thankot, Nepal and Jinja, Uganda. Here, organised groups of grassroots women have established innovative, community-driven mechanims to participate in and monitor decision-making and service delivery in […]
Women and Human Settlements -WAHS- Online Information Portal Final Report
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 Practitioners Platform Flyer (Bilingual)
By Huairou Commission
The Community Practitioners’ Platform (CPP) is an organizing and networking mechanism connecting grassroots community based groups working to reduce their vulnerability to disaster and climate risks in rural and urban areas.
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