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Featured Publications
Ponte do Maduro: Land Regularization with Gender Equality
By Ayse Yonder, Katia Araujo and Patricia Chaves
Report on Shadow Advisory Committee’s International Mission to Ponte do Maduro, Recife, Brazil (10-12 January 2011).
Grassroots Women and Land
By Huairou Commission
The Huairou Commission calls for sustained advocacy to advance women’s access, ownership and control over land and resources at the local, national and global levels by positioning grassroots women as knowledge holders in policy making frameworks.
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.
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.
Global Summit Outcome Document
By Huairou Commission
Outcome Statement from the Grassroots Summit on Women’s Leadership and Governance, March 3-5, 2011.
Grassroots Women and Decentralised Governance: Change through Partnership
By Edited by Sangeetha Purushothaman, Sarah Silliman, Soumita Basu, Sanjeev Pillay on behalf of the Huairou Commission
The grassroots initiatives from five different countries provide insights into the participation of local communities in decentralized decision making and local governance.
MDG Results and Recommendations Booklet
By Sarah Silliman
The Huairou Commission calls for sustained investments in women’s organizations to accelerate progress and realization of the MDGs by 2015.
Huairou Commission Midterm Review of MDG3 Accountability Initiative
By Renee Kantelberg and Josephine Tsui
This report highlights the findings of the external Midterm Review of The Huairou Commission’s MDG3 Accountability Initiative (MDG3AI), funded through a grant from the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Initiative supports the members involved to use a bottom up approach that engages locally active grassroots groups in initiating and sustaining projects.
Land and Housing in Latin America: Stories that Inspire
By Kim-Jenna Jurriaans
Two stories of the Land & Housing Campaign in Latin America: “The Bright Light of Luna Creciente,” an Interview with Ecuadorian Grassroots Leader Elva Ulcuango; and “An Unusual Community,” and interview with Maria Auxiliadora co-founder Rose Mary Irusta Perez.
Tools For Securing Land and Property
By Huairou Commission
Grassroots Women’s avenues to claiming, gaining and maintaining land, housing and property.
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