Publications

Our Publications

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

Featured Publications

Building Better Futures: Empowering Grassroots Women to Build Resilient Communities

Year: 2007

English

By GROOTS International

Disaster response programs are opportunities for women to become active participants in shaping the futures of their communities through innovation solutions that address practical problems such as shelter, credit, livelihood and basic services, all of which allows women to build a better future.


Local to Local Cookbook: A Resource Manual on National Roundtables; the Guideline Used in the Network of Mother Centres in the Czech Republic

Year: 2007

English

By Rut Kolínská

Roundtable discussion on guideline used in the network of Mother Centres in the Czech Republic. 


Monitoring and Evaluation: A How-to Handbook for Grassroots Women’s Organizations

Year: 2007

English

By Renee Kantelberg and Jo Kempon, on behalf of the Huairou Commission

The objectives of this handbook are to: provide an overview of some of the basic concepts and central issues in M&E; introduce an overall framework that will help grassroots women implement an M&E system appropriate to their context; and introduce a number of concepts and tools to help grassroots women engage in a practical approach […]


Community Mapping: A How-To Handbook for Grassroots Women’s Organizing

Year: 2007

English

By Matt Wade with the assistance of Nicole Ganzekaufer, Shannon Hayes, Nipin Vanvadharan and Swayan Shikshan Prayog (SSP)

A handbook on community mapping, a participatory process for assessing the situations in a community and documenting the knowledge of community members.


Peer Exchange Handbook

Year: 2007

English

By Steve Jeanetta, PhD, produced by the Huairou Commission

Peer Exchanges: Sharing the Experiences of Grassroots Women’s Organizations. 


Listen to Us Land Ownership and Property Control: Grassroots Women Document Innovations in Practice

Year: 2006

English

By Jacqueline Leavitt PhD With the assistance of Blerta Cela, Ava Bromberg, Deirdre Pfeiffer and Nicole Ganzekaufe

The lack of land ownership and control over housing are destructive to the everyday lives of women in much of Africa. As widows and orphans, they face physical displacement and mental stress, literally uprooted from their communities and social networks. This blow is worsened by the atrocities of genocide and pandemic HIV-AIDS that ravages entire […]


Land Ownership and Property Control: Grassroots Women Document Innovations in Practice

Year: 2006

English

By Jacqueline Leavitt PhD, on behalf of Huairou Commission

The lack of land ownership and control over housing are destructive to the everyday lives of women in much of Africa. Women’s groups are responding in innovative ways to change their lives; this report focuses on grassroots women’s strategies to attain and manage land, housing and property.


Shaping Our Own Destiny: Experiences of Micro Finance Programme in Slum and Squatter Communities in Kathmandu and Lalitpur Cities

Year: 2006

English

By By Lumanti Support Group for Shelter

Lumanti Support Group for Shelter is a non-governmental organization dedicated towards alleviation of urban poverty in Nepal through the improvement of shelter conditions in slum and squatter settlements. 


SEEDS Pamphlet No. 22 Women’s Participation in Disaster Relief and Recovery

Year: 2005

English

By Huairou Commission and GROOTS International

Seeds pamphlets are designed to meet global requests for information about the innovative and practical program ideas advanced to address the roles and needs of low-income women. This edition focuses on practical examples of how low-income women can participate in post disaster relief and recovery.


Global Initiative on Women’s Security of Tenure flyer (Español)

Year: 2005

Spanish

By Huairou Commission

La Iniciativa global sobre la Tenencia Segura para las Mujeres de la Comisión Huairou es una plataforma para avanzar a un enfoque alternativo sobre la seguridad en la tenencia de la tierra para las mujeres que se funde en las experiencias de los grupos de mujeres de base.