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Land Post 2015
By Huairou Commission
One-pager produced with Landesa, ActionAid, and the global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
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.
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.
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.
Community Resilience Fund Flyer (Bilingual)
By Huairou Commission
The Community Resilience Fund (CFR) is a grassroots-run community fund focused on reducing vulnerability to climate and disaster risks and losses in poor rural and urban communities subject to tropical storms, flooding, landslides, drought, seismic activity, food insecurity and other threats.
Seeing Beyond the State: Grassroots Women’s Perspectives on Corruption and Anti-Corruption
By Best Practices Foundation and Huairou Commission
In order to better understand corruption from the perspective of women at the grassroots level, the Huairou Commission undertook a study of 11 communities across eight countries in partnership with UNDP’s Global Thematic Programme on Anti-Corruption for Development Effectiveness (PACDE).
Transforming Development: Creating Synergies between Grassroots Women and Institutions of Governance
By Best Practices Foundation and Huairou Commission
This publication is part of a series of tools, publications, and resource support that the Huairou Commission has developed to promote horizontal learning amongst grassroots women’s groups and to document and share their strategies and lessons with policymaking and development institutions.
Tools for Change
By Mayra Gomez, Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions;
Applying United Nations standards to secure women’s housing, land, and property rights in the context of HIV.
L2L Manual
By Edited by Sarah Silliman
After three years in the making, Huairou Commission announces the release of the Local-to-Local Dialogue Resource Manual: A Guide for Grassroots Women-Led Engagement with Local Government and Decision Makers.
Final Report: Global Summit on Grassroots Women’s Leadership and Governance
By Carolina Pinhiero, edited by Sarah Silliman
The Summit, co-sponsored by UNDP and the Dutch Foreign Ministry MDG 3 FUND, marked the accumulation of a decade of work empowering women in low-income communities worldwide to improve their living conditions, transform their communities, and exchange their experiences with women across various regions of the world.
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